In the early morning hours of Oct. 20, 1976, the ferry George Prince was making its routine 10‐minute crossing on the Mississippi River from Destrehan to Luling, about 20 miles upstream from New ...
Maurice Wattigney doesn’t recall his father, Louis “Toby” Wattigney Jr., talking about the Luling ferry disaster all that often. But when he did, the son could see the trauma in his dad’s eyes and ...