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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

7/1/1977 - 9/30/1977

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)

An Oral History of River Pilots

FAIN: FT-13292-77

Jane A. Curry
Lafayette College (Easton, PA 18042-7625)

To collect the stories and the memories of several river plots who have worked the inland river system of America for 35-45 years on steam-driven and diesel powered vessels. These stories are valuable in themselves and for the link they provide to our historical and literary past.