As a child, I lived in Quincy, Il for three years. Quincy is on the Mississippi and not far from Hannibal, MO. We sometimes picnicked by the river, but my dad was far more interested in seeing the locks in operation than seeing the riverboat. We did organize a family reunion there once so that we could celebrate my grandmother’s brother’s 100th birthday on a riverboat and allow him to pull the cord on the horn (not a calliope).