Ralph Nading Hill

Ralph Nading Hill is a native Vermonter who has had a lifelong interest in steamboats. In 1950 he organized a campaign to save the Ticonderoga, one of the last sidewheel steamboats in America, from the wrecker's torch, and served from 1950 to 1953 as president of the company which continued her in service on Lake Champlain. His Sidewheeler Saga, a chronicle of the steamboat from the early days—which also tells of the struggle to "Save the Ticonderoga"—was published in 1950. His earlier books were Contrary Country, and The Winooski in the Rivers of America series.