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This Great Lakes History Log is presented by Filer Credit Union, the Port of Ludington Maritime Museum and Sable Points Media. By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief MANITOWOC, Wis. — Maritime history along the western shore of Lake Michigan takes center stage at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum, where the stories of Great Lakes shipping, shipbuilding and World War II submarines are preserved along the Manitowoc River.…
This Great Lakes History Log is presented by Filer Credit Union, the Port of Ludington Maritime Museum and Sable Points Media. By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief Capt. Esten Bahle spent more than four decades on the Great Lakes, guiding vessels through one of the most significant periods of change in maritime history. Beginning his career aboard sailing schooners and ending it on some of the…
This Great Lakes History Log is presented by Filer Credit Union and the Mason County Historical Society. On Thursday, Aug. 13, the Mason County Historical Society will present a walking tour of Brookside Cemetery featuring some of the pioneers of Scottville and Amber Township. Among the many pioneers who founded those two communities was Charles Wolf Sr. Tickets are still…
This Great Lakes History Log is presented by Filer Credit Union, the Port of Ludington Maritime Museum and Sable Points Media. By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief AMBER TOWNSHIP — For nearly a century, Andrew Petterson’s account of the three-masted schooner Mary Ellen Cook riding a giant wave over Chicago’s breakwater has been accepted as one of Mason County’s most remarkable maritime stories. First published in…
Masters of the PM Steamers This Great Lakes History Log is presented by Filer Credit Union, the Port of Ludington Maritime Museum and Sable Points Media. By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief Every September, the sinking of Pere Marquette 18 is remembered as one of the greatest maritime disasters in the history of Lake Michigan. The Sept. 9, 1910 tragedy claimed 30…
