Jessica DuLong, a U.S. Coast Guard–licensed merchant marine officer, is one of the world's only female fireboat engineers as well as a journalist whose work has appeared in Newsweek International, Rolling Stone, and other publications.
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In 2001, journalist Jessica DuLong ditched her dot-com desk job for the diesel engines of a rusty antique fireboat, the John J. Harvey, and the storied waters of the Hudson. My River Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson tells the story of this ... SEE MORE