Category: Michigan
Moving a Fort to a Better Location
Forts are often built to defend a military position. But when your fort is not in the best location for that purpose, what do you…
An Innocent Game of Lacrosse
It seemed like an innocent game of lacrosse. A group of men invited locals to come watch what was billed as an important game between…
A Strategic Fort Location
Today it is a well-known summer vacation spot. Turn back the clock about three centuries and people would have known it as one of the…
Where Santa Gets His Decorations
If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. It’s big business in small town Michigan and it…
A Shipwreck That Still Influences Today
Each November 10th, the bell here in Whitefish Point will chime 29 times for the crew that died aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald. Forty years later,…
The Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald
It’s a mystery that is now 40 years old…a mystery that lives on through a song that tells the story of a grand ship and…
A Dangerous Place for Ships
If you come here to the shores of Lake Superior in the summer, you are likely to find lovely waters and a picturesque setting. Come…
The Soo
Locals often simply call it “The Soo.” Ships know the place for the locks that help move them from one great lake to another. The…
Watching the Ships Pass By
The ships here are moving so slowly, it’s sometime difficult to tell if they are in fact moving at all. Yet hundreds of people will…
Overcoming Big Obstacles
Before highways crisscrossed this nation, rivers often provided the best road to move cargo and passengers. But some of those rivers had mighty obstacles to…
