On July 17, 2014, Gerald W. Sutphin will present “The Riverine World” at the Thursday evening lecture in the Archives and History Library of the Culture Center in Charleston. The program will begin at 6:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Sutphin will examine the impact that river life had on people living and working on the western rivers during the age of steamboats. His presentation will cover vessels from steam ferries to dish boats and showboats and the people who worked on them.
Gerald Sutphin is recognized as one of the United States’ foremost inland rivers and river transportation historians. Since working for the Huntington District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for twenty years, he has been the owner/operator of a visual communication arts company for two decades and specializes as a consultant in the research, development, and presentation of inland rivers projects such as museum exhibits, publications, and motion picture production. His credits include Sternwheelers on the Great Kanawha River (co-author, 1991), Two Hundred Years of Steamboating, 1811-2011 (researcher/writer/producer of DVD), and The Great Kanawha, An American Story (researcher/writer/featured historian on film, 2012).
For additional information, contact the Archives and History Library at (304) 558-0230.
