Larry Birkhead

Um, there's always a steamboat race for the Kentucky Derby and as a part of this two week festival, they'll race anything, dogs, beds, you know, whatever it's like.

I want to do it.

It'll be awesome.

But, um,

So, yeah.

So that year, um, I want to say it was like 1998.

I, uh, the, the, one of the steamboats that were racing against the other steamboat, um, had just sank and some, somebody, a worker got mad, they got fired and they pulled something and the whole boat went under.

So they just brought the boat up at the time for this whole big festival for that week.

And on the boat was Gloria Stewart, which is like the old lady from the Titanic that threw the necklace in the ocean.

Yeah.

You know, and she was there.

Yeah.

I remember because I had my little microphone, my little tape recorder and I had my camera and stuff and I had never had a picture published.

I'd never written a story.

I was I was taking classes.

So it was kind of like hyper to get out there before I really should have.

And I managed to get her to come up to the edge of the steamboat that just sank.

And she put her arms out like, you know, the king of the world.

And I snapped the photo.

And I don't know.