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Q&A: Fairhope, Alabama's John Sledge talks about his love of maritime history - Alabama News Center

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We caught up with John Sledge after he debarked from Blakeley State Park’s Delta Explorer cruise vessel. The historian, writer and lecturer led an excursion to the 1951 ocean liner SS United States. The ship, once a symbol of American innovation and luxury travel, will soon become an artificial reef, but right now it is in Mobile, and Sledge was enthusiastic to talk to people about it. History is more than the Fairhope resident’s livelihood. It …
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Q&A: Fairhope, Alabama's John Sledge talks about his love of maritime history - Alabama News Center

We caught up with John Sledge after he debarked from Blakeley State Park’s Delta Explorer cruise vessel. The historian, writer and lecturer led an excursion to the 1951 ocean liner SS United States. The ship, once a symbol of American innovation and luxury travel, will soon become an artificial reef, but right now it is in Mobile, and Sledge was enthusiastic to talk to people about it. History is more than the Fairhope resident’s livelihood. It …

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