When it comes to break-through television comedy, Norman Lear is without peer. His credits are many, but without doubt his biggest hit, the show that became an instant success and gave dozens of CBS executives heartburn, was All In The Family. Lear, who will be 95 next month, is the subject of a wonderful…
Much of the enjoyment that comes from a cruise like this is meeting interesting people. That said, if there’s a passenger on the American Queen under the age of 50, he or she has escaped my notice. Most come from the U.S., of course, but there does seem to be quite a few non-Americans. So…
This morning we’re in Natchez, which is something like 75 miles below Vicksburg on the Mississippi. There’s a jitney that takes passengers a couple of hundred yards up a steep roadway from the landing area to a small park overlooking the river. That’s where one of several big buses owned by the cruise company are…
So far, cruising the Mississippi River on the American Queen has been everything we had imagined. This is a big boat–and it is, we have been told, a boat and not a ship–and our first 24 hours on board has taken us from Memphis to Greenville, Mississippi, where we have stopped while a number of…