Ever been to Niagara Falls? Did you take the boat tour? (I know we visited the falls when I was a child, and I’m pretty sure we took the boat tour, but I honestly do not remember very much about it.)
Those boats have been run by the same company, Maid of the Mist Corporation, since 1971. But now that company has lost the contract to run boat tours on the Canadian side of the falls. And this is a problem because they need a place to fuel and store their boats during the winter: the current site is on the Canadian side, and will be taken over by the new tour operators. There’s no easy place to put a new location on the New York side, at least not without going through a minimum of two years worth of environmental reviews, permitting, and construction.
Obit watch: noted author and critic Paul Fussell. I probably should have read The Great War and Modern Memory
