“I sowed the seeds of my success when I could least afford it,” remembered Arthur fondly. Seniors received a free meal on Arthur’s parents’ birthdays-a tradition still practiced today. He gave huge discounts to the Little League teams, who considered Prince their second home. “I cleaned up the place gave it heart.” Arthur had transformed Prince into a warm family restaurant where people can relax. So where does Quincy fit in? Well, sadly for the Quincy/Hannibal area, we are about 90 miles north of Grafton, IL which is where the Illinois River meets the Mighty Mississippi, so we don't get any boat traffic from the great loop.Which is a huge bummer because think of the tourism that our area could promote for boaters who are taking the months it takes to complete the loop! Quincy has such great Abe Lincoln history, and when you couple that with Mark Twain and the beautiful downtown Hannibal area, it would be a hit stop on the Great Loop for boaters in my opinion.After five long years of tremendously hard work, Arthur began to sense some progress. In order to complete the loop you can start at any point, many people start in Chicago at Lake Michigan and the Chicago River, you then proceed all the way down the Illinois River to the Mississippi River, then to the Gulf, around Florida, up the east coast past NYC, into the Great Lakes, and then down Lake Michigan back to Chicago. The entire loop stretches about 6,000 miles (9,700 km)."
It is made up of both natural and man-made waterways, including the Atlantic and Gulf Intracoastal Waterways, the Great Lakes, the Rideau Canal, and the Mississippi and Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. "The Great Loop is a system of waterways that encompasses the eastern portion of the United States and part of Canada.
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