Looking down into the muck to avoid hitting cars and up to maneuver around low hanging power lines and tree branches, we came upon a flatboat filled with law enforcement .
Along narrow streams deep in the country there were leisurely men in overalls who pulled a flatboat across by wires for an occasional farmer's wagon or a model-T Ford.
One thing Robert cut out was "the story of how his father sewed up the eyes of a drove of hogs, when he found it impossible to get them aboard a flatboat by driving them in the .
Citizen discovers historic flatboat CARBONDALE â Shawnee Group of the Sierra Club will sponsor an archaeology program at 7 p.m. Sept. 12 in Carbondale Township Hall, 217 E. Main St. The program will focus on the discovery of a historic flatboat in 2002.
Sept. 2, 2013 - The Southern Illinoisan