More than a century later, David Hawley discovered the sunken steamer a half-mile from the river bank beneath 45 feet of earth; it then became the focus of the Arabia Steamboat Museum. Today you ...

Holly Messinger, the textiles conservator at The Arabia Steamboat Museum ... tljungblad@kcstar.com To replace the disintegrated wood buttons on some restored coats, the museum has in-house ...