We enjoyed strolling around the City of Paducah and went to the River Discovery Center, a museum that had a great history of Paducah's maritime past as an important hub of water traffic. It became important because of its location at the confluence of the Tennessee River and the Ohio River - so important that Ulysses S Grant occupied the town during the Civil War (Kentucky was neutral at the beginning) because of its importance for supply lines in the Battle of Paducah. The museum told of the city's sad history of flooding - just as the those in Grafton and Alton are haunted by the 1993 flood that ruined their towns - Paducah had its greatest catastrophe in 1937, when the Ohio rose over 61 feet, inundating this whole city.

We ran a few errands and had dinner at a grand restaurant with huge windows and lots of stained glass - but we didn't see the ghost that allegedly haunts the place. Tomorrow we set off for Grand Rivers, KY. Although there are two ways to get there, we will proceed up the route with less commercial traffic - taking the Ohio to the Cumberland River, rather than taking the Tennessee River, which supposedly has a very busy commercial lock with lots of traffic.