Mississippi River Skiff: rowing like Lincoln

We had a trip out to Elsah Bar, a tiny island on the Mississippi. (It is the island above the "B" in the blog title photo.)
Patrick M. joined us.  He is a well known Abe Lincoln performer.   He said that one of the earliest stories we know of Lincoln was as a young boy, Abe was asked by two fellows for a row out to a stern wheeler.  Lincoln obliged and as they boarded the big boat, they turned around and tossed in two silver half dollars in to Abe's row boat.
Lincoln later said of the incident  "for a poor boy to earn a dollar in a day made him feel like there was maybe a future for him"!
The boat he rowed was most likely similar to the river skiff we got to row around today.

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Here are photos of Eifel and Patrick rowing around the island...