Wooden steamboat model restored for display at museum

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Stored in a Cape Girardeau chicken house for about half a century, the 6-foot-long wooden model of a side-wheeler steamboat was in ruin when Jo Renfrow started looking for a new home for the creation.

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