1. Pilot's Union Roald Tweet 2:40

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. When you were little, do you remember your parents telling you to look both ways when crossing the street, and then do it twice more? Paying close attention is good advice as a number of old upper Mississippi steamboat pilots could tell you.

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