The Ironton Tribune | Famous ships showcase voyage of centuryHUNTINGTON, W.Va. — As the Chesapeake school bus made the turn into the parking lot of the Huntington Yacht Club marina on a crisp, bright Wednesday morning, the spindly pitch black masts of the Nina set off by the robin’s egg blue of the Ohio River came into view.
“It is more beautiful than on the Internet,” Meggie Cauley cried out. Soon she and other Chesapeake Middle School talented and gifted (TAG) students tumbled down the ramps of the marina into the world of 15th Century imperialistic Europe as they toured exact replicas of two of the three ships on which Christopher Columbus and his crews endured disease and squalor to discover the New World ... read more in The Ironton Tribume
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