This little book has given me a place to share stories of the steamboats and the era in which they prospered. You see, I am the granddaughter of a well known steamboat captain, Captain Archibald Long, better known as Captain Arch, who for 26 plus years piloted the Potomac and other steamboats up and down the Chesapeake Bay from Baltimore up the Rappahannock to Fredericksburg and down to Norfolk and back again. When I was a young girl, I would sit and listen to tales of his travels and adventures. The steamboats changed the way of life for all living on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries...