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21 - Rolling on the River

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2024

Daniel Gibbs
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Emeritus of Oregon Health and Science University
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Over the last 15 years, I have taken many trips through the Columbia River Gorge on my mini-tugboat, Lizzie G. In the Pacific Northwest and perhaps elsewhere there used to be a tradition of naming commercial tugboats for the patriarchs and matriarchs of the boat owner’s family. Lizzie G is named for my mother, Elizabeth Gibbs, although the only person who called her Lizzie was my father. My parents would be 112 and 114 today if still alive, but I think of them both when I am on the boat. My father loved boats – my mother not so much.

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Print publication year: 2024

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  • Rolling on the River
  • Daniel Gibbs, Emeritus of Oregon Health and Science University
  • Book: Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer's
  • Online publication: 19 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009430067.022
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  • Daniel Gibbs, Emeritus of Oregon Health and Science University
  • Book: Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer's
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009430067.022
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  • Rolling on the River
  • Daniel Gibbs, Emeritus of Oregon Health and Science University
  • Book: Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer's
  • Online publication: 19 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009430067.022
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