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  • 21 - Rolling on the River

  • Daniel Gibbs, Emeritus of Oregon Health and Science University
  • Book:
    Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer's
    Published online:
    19 January 2024
    Print publication:
    22 February 2024, pp 85-90

  • Summary

    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.