Captain and Mrs. Edgington

Sunday, May 28. 2006

This very rare picture, probably never shown in public before, comes from Don Sanders.

Thanks Don for the wonderul picture!

It shows Captain and Mrs. Edgington at Moscow, Ohio in the 1940's.

Posted by Franz Neumeier in Picture of the Week at 00:01 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Captain John Emory Edgington was a favorite amongst the crew of the AVALON when we met in 1959. He was said to be in his 90's, then, and rumored to have won his pilot's license in 1889. An article about the Captain, in the Charleston, WV newspaper, quoted him telling about a certain young red-haired woman who always waved from ashore as he steamed by shoving loads of coal down the Kanawha River. Eventually Captain Edgington stopped by the girl's house on one of his days-off, and we see them still together many years later.

As a young AVALON deckhand, I made every effort to be near Captain Edgington, and my efforts rewarded by being selected to "post" his letters and asked to carry his "grip" to the bus station whenever he got off the boat. Captain Doc Hawley revealed that Captain Edgington was fond of slipping the boat into the landing early, on a "Moonlight" excursion, just so he could go below and dance with a pretty young girl, or two, before the locals were sent ashore.

Three pictures hang in my pilothouse: Captain Ernest E. Wagner, Sam Clemens, and J. Emory Edgington.

#1 Shipyard Sam (Link) on 2006-06-03 12:57 (Reply)

Correction. There is one additional picture hanging in my pilothouse: John Hartford.

#2 Shipyard Sam on 2006-06-04 09:59 (Reply)

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