Ken Steinhoff, Cape Girardeau Central High School Class of 1965, spent half a century in the ink-slinging business for papers in Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina, and Florida.
He retired in 2008 and has been spending time scanning hundreds of thousands of images because “photos once taken as news have grown enough whiskers that they’ve become history.”
Please comment on the articles when you see he may have left out a bit of history, forgotten a name or when your memory of a circumstance conflicts with his.
(His mother said her stories improved after all the folks who could contradict died off.)
Your information helps to make this a wonderful archive and may end up in book form.
© Ken Steinhoff – All Rights Reserved
I see in the news that not only is the river so low that it’s hampering barge traffic, but now it’s clogged with ice. Wonder if it is any worse than when I shot this December 27, 2000?
People used to walk across the frozen river. My blog yesterday has links to these photos as well as the Blizzard of 1979.
http://www.semissourian.com/blogs/flynch/entry/50801/
We were still living in Cape when the river completely was iced over from Cairo to Cape. I think it was in the 1970s. You couldn’t walk over it as it was more of a 30 mile ice jam!
I can remember the start of the blizzard of 79, was trying to walk home in it from Walgreens that was down the street. As I recall it came up fast. walking to was easy, walking back was another story. I also seem to recall it prompting double duty from the cities garbage trucks in later years as snow plows, since they did not need to have full time trucks rigged for snow.
Ice, remember sometime in the 70s the river was shut down because of it. Nothing was moving. But don’t remember the year.
Well…my Dad and I will check this out this afternoon!
In Cape for a couple of more days…nice white Christmas here!
I would like to request permission to publish one of Ken Steinhoff’s photograph of ice on the Mississippi River. It would be included in “Cherokee Removal” where ABCFM missionary, Daniel Butrick, says in his journal on December 26, 1838 “It is said the detachments now at the Mississippi are stopped by floating ice.” This book is Butrick’s journal where he accompanies the Cherokee people on their forced removal and is the only known journal of anyone who was actually on their removal.
Contact me at ken@steinhoff.net or 561-727-9645 so we can discuss reproduction rights.