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American Queen
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Ellen and Tom '66 Clemmer made the best of the muster drill!
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Bill Parish '60 with his World War II buddy Bryan Haislip
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Bryan and Bill enjoyed meeting two of the AMERICAN QUEEN's onboard entertainers after the first night's performance.
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The AMERICAN QUEEN's passengers are treated to a calliope concert every time she leaves port.
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Steam from the calliope
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Departing New Orleans at night.
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Ed Scott '65 and his wife Debra Mutton with two of the greeters at Oak Alley Plantation in Oak Alley, LA. All greeters and tour guides at Oak Alley wear beautiful period costumes.
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Our tour guide at Oak Alley
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Looking out at the AMERICAN QUEEN off the front balcony of Oak Alley Plantation
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Oak Alley Plantation
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The back of Oak Alley Plantation
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The back of Oak Alley from a greater distance. On the right is one of the rebuilt slave cabins.
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The view of Oak Alley plantation from the levee where the AMERICAN QUEEN docked.
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This is Laura Plantation, a preserved Creole sugarcane plantation. In touring this home and its grounds, we learned quite a lot about Creole culture and the role of slaves on a sugarcane plantation. It was a fascinating tour.
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Bryan Michael Dupree, our Laura Plantation tour guide. We all agreed he was the best tour guide any of us had ever had. He's an actor, too. Watch for him!
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Slave cabins at Laura Plantation
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One of the surviving slave cabins at Laura Plantation. Typically, two entire families would live in a cabin this size.
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Faye '63 and Ed '64 Pahl bringing a little Luck O'The Irish to us on St. Patrick's Day.
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Faye '63 and Ed '64 Pahl with Alumni Association trip host Ginny Hall
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A pre-dawn walk around the deck of the AMERICAN QUEEN.
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Sunrise on the Mississippi
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At the Old Governor's Mansion in Baton Rouge, LA
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Harry Dawley, Gil Wheless '67, Doug Nelson and Dennis "D." Dickerson at the Old Governor's Mansion in Baton Rouge, LA
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At the desk of Louisiana's former Governor Huey Long
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Doug Nelson and Gil Wheless '67, visiting the Old Governor's Mansion in Baton Rouge, LA
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Visiting the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge
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Louisiana State Capitol - Baton Rouge
