Sit Down, You’re
Rockin’ the Boat! - Quitman McBride IIICape Girardeau, Missouri
May 21, 1861
The riverboat
NEBRASKA is
scheduled to dock in Cape Girardeau and will be one of the final boats to leave
Memphis, TN before the barricades are raised for the duration of the War
Between the States. Boarded by Union soldiers in Cairo, IL and with
expected cannon fire at Jefferson Barracks, this will be a leisure stop for the
passengers and crew.
We hope you will join us for a
"pleasure-boat-ride" to Saint Louis where you will experience
En plein air art,
(the new artistic movement that
has artists drawing in the open air), singers, stories, magic and much more!
A special guest, Riverboat Pilot
Mark Twain is onboard and will
share one of his first (of many to come) stories!
Gypsies
will be on the boat with us but no worries! They will not steal from
you but rather GIVE you a silhouette...perfect for a Mother's Day gift!
Be sure to look out the Porthole at the Mississippi River as we travel
upriver!
Welcome Aboard the
Mississippi Riverboat Nebraska
May 21, 1861
Greetings: Captain Cowan
Director of Entertainment: Nebraska Pilot Crowell
Sit Down, You’re
Rockin’ the Boat! - Quitman McBride III
Contact Juggling -
LeChelle Pope
Dixie
- Bryndon Lee
O, I wish I was in the land of cotton
Old times there are not forgotten
Look away! Look away!
Look away! Dixie Land.
In Dixie Land where I was born in
Early on one frosty mornin'
Look away! Look away!
Look away! Dixie Land.
Chorus:
O, I wish I was in Dixie!
Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie Land I'll take my stand
To live and die in Dixie
Away, away,
Away down south in Dixie!
Yo-Yo - Lydia Alford
Juggling - Chris Nichols
Cripple Creek and Old Joe Clark - Steve
Schaffner and his River Rats:
Aaron Mehner-Doghouse
Bass,
Blade Henson-Guitar,
Jalen McDowell-Guitar,
Alex Mehner-Fiddle,
Vikas Rudrappa-Fiddle;
Mr. Schaffner-Guitar
and Tater Bug Mandolin
Card tricks - Andrew Webre
Worlds Apart (from “Big
River” by Roger Miller)-Brodrick
Twiggs (“Jim”) & Ben Hendricks (“Huck”)
Magic Coins - Jazmine
Roberts
Tom Sawyer look-alike
contest
Juggler - Hayden Fowler
“Becky Thatcher” (Lessley
Dennington) telling “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
The magic of making
jumping frogs demonstrated by 3rd grade students at Jefferson
Elementary School with their teacher, Stacy Stapleton
Frog jumping contest
Blessing of the food and
prayers for our soldiers in the War Between the States - Rev. Seth Mayes
Lunch for students
(period-appropriate cuisine)
“Mark Twain “ introduced
by Captain Cowan
Mark Twain
Proclamation delivered by
Mayor
An additional celebration of National Library Week:
You are cordially invited to attend a book discussion
Thursday, April 15 from 3:00-4:00
in the
Cape Central High School Library:
Same Kind of Different As Me
by Ron Hall and Denver Moore.
Discussion leader: Julia Howes Jorgensen