The newsletter for the Great Lakes Historical Society

owners and operators of the:

National Museum of the Great Lakes

Col. James M. Schoonmaker Museum Ship

Clarence S. Metcalf Great Lakes Maritime Research Library

Peachman Lake Erie Shipwreck Research Center

Inland Seas®

Preserving Great Lakes History Since 1944 Spring 2016

Membership Appreciation Lecture

Ancient Hunters and the Great Inland Seas:

9,000 Years of Submerged Prehistory

See page 3 for more details.

Leader of the Lakes Luncheon

May 18, 2016

12pm at the Toledo Club 235 14th Street, Toledo, OH 43604

Join fellow museum and society members for a once

in a lifetime opportunity to hear RADM June Ryan

USCG, Commander of the 9th District, explore the

changing role of the Coast Guard on the Great Lakes

and how her career path through the ranks prepared

her for her current assignment. RADM Ryan is a

graduate of BGSU and is the first female commander

of the 9th District. She is also the first female to rise

from the ranks of ordinary seaman to Admiral in the

more than 200 year history of the Coast Guard.

Have you signed up yet?

Do you love shipwrecks? Join us to hear the real stories

of Great Lakes shipwreck discoveries from the

discoverers themselves. Join us for one presentation,

one day or the full symposium.

See you in the deep!

See page 2 for

details.

Tickets are $45 for members and $50 for non-members

Call 419.214.5000 ext. 200 for more information

and to purchase tickets.

Members Only Fourth of July

Red, White and Kaboom Celebration!

Join fellow members for the one-of-a-kind experience of

watching the Toledo fireworks from the deck of the

Col. James M. Schoonmaker. Space is limited.

Reserve your space today. Call 419.214.5000 ext. 200

or email reservations@inlandseas.org.

We will be issuing tickets to confirm reservations for the

event because of the high demand to participate in this

annual holiday tradition.

Save the Date!

June 11, 2016

RADM June E. Ryan

Photo by Erik Denson

April 30, 11am to 2:30pm Discovery of the “Argo” – The Great Lake’s

Top Environmental Hazard

by Tom Kowalczk of CLUE

and

Lost Steamship Discoveries in Lake Ontario

a film and discussion by Jim Kennard

October 8, 11am to 2:30pm Aircraft Wrecks on the Great Lakes

by Wayne Lusardi

and

Graveyard of the Great Lakes: A Shipwreck Hunter's Quest

to Discover the Past

a film and discussion by Eric Seals

REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

Please call 419.214.5000 ext. 200 for

registration and ticket prices.

Visit www.inlandseas.org/events for more

information.

Proudly sponsored by:

Historical Collection of the Great Lakes

2016 Schedule of Upcoming Events - Mark Your Calendars! For more information or to RSVP for these events, please call 419.214.5000 ext. 200 or email reservations@inlandseas.org

All events take place at the National Museum

of the Great Lakes unless otherwise noted.

Reservations are required.

Spring Lecture Series Wednesday, May 4, 7pm

Resurrecting the Dart Boat Company

Scott and Dave Ramsey, Ramsey Brothers

Restoration and the Dart Boat Company

Sponsored by the University of Toledo

Leader of the Lakes Luncheon Wednesday, May 18, 12pm

The Toledo Club, 235 14th Street, Toledo, OH 43604

Tickets are $45 for members and $50 for non-members.

Spring Lecture Series Wednesday, May 25, 5pm and 7pm

Great Lakes Ladies: A Social History of Prostitution in

Great Lakes Ports

Edward A. Perrine, Author and Senior Editor for

Inland Seas®

Sponsored by the University of Toledo

Museum on the Move: The Jet Express Trips Thursday, May 26

See page 4 for pricing and registration information.

Museum on the Move:

The Soo Locks Bus Tour Thursday, June 23 through Saturday, June 25

See page 4 for pricing and registration information.

Red, White and Kaboom! Monday, July 4, 6pm

See page 1 for details.

Members Only

Pancake Breakfast

Saturday, April 30, 2016, 9am to 12pm

We would like to thank everyone who registered to

join us for a free pancake breakfast to celebrate the 2016

season opening of the Col. James M. Schoonmaker.

Reservations are now closed. If you missed the event

this time around, we hope to see you next year!

The Schoonmaker opens to the public on May 1, 2016.

Photo by Don Lee

2016 Membership Appreciation Lecture

and Annual Meeting

Ancient Hunters and the Great Inland Seas:

9,000 Years of Submerged Prehistory

Shipwreck research isn’t the only underwater archeology

being conducted on the Great Lakes. Dr. John O’Shea’s

research explores the potential human occupation of the

Alpena-Amberely Ridge in central Lake Huron. During a

period of low lake levels, the ridge would have been a

natural migration route for caribou, therefore a logical

hunting ground for humans. Join us to learn about the

research taking place to explore these exciting possibilities.

Dr. John O’Shea is professor of

anthropology and curator of

Great Lakes archaeology in the

Museum of Anthropological

Archaeology at the University

of Michigan. His research is

also split between conventional

land-based archaeology and

underwater investigations of

submerged prehistoric sites and

historic shipwrecks.

Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 1pm At the Toledo Club

235 14th Street, Toledo, OH 43604

The Lecture will take place following the Annual Meeting

of the Great Lakes Historical Society, held at 12:15pm.

FREE FOR MEMBERS! Guests of members are welcome for $12 per person.

Registration is Required. Call 419.214.5000 ext. 200 or

email reservations@inlandseas.org

Send us your email address to receive our

Chadburn(e),

a digital version of the Chadburn,

that includes updated event information,

museum news and special offers.

Email membership@inlandseas.org to sign up.

June 7 and 14

Science Days

In partnership with the OSU Lucas County Extension.

June 11

The Lego® Challenge Build a boat, lighthouse or bridge.

July 16

The Fishing Derby Catch (and release) our finned friends from the

Maumee River.

August 6

The Catamaran Classic Build your boat and compete in our rain gutter canals.

Additional cost for boat kits.

All programs run from 10am until 2pm.

Programs are included in the price of admission

unless otherwise stated.

Visit www.inlandseas.org/events for a

full calendar of 2016 events.

Dr. John O’Shea

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The Jet Express Trips:

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Registrations due by May 20, 2016

Port Clinton to Toledo

Member Price: $100/person

Non-member Price: $112/person

Departs Port-Clinton at 8am and returns at 8 pm.

Spend a day in Toledo and see what the city has to offer. The Jet Express will arrive at the National Museum of the

Great Lakes and give passengers a chance to explore the extensive exhibits and the Col. James M. Schoonmaker muse-

um ship. Passengers will then have the chance to visit other Toledo treasures, including the Hollywood Casino Tole-

do, the Toledo Museum of Art and the Toledo Firefighters Museum. Lunch will be provided as well as dinner at the

historic Tony Packo’s. Lunch and d inner are included in the ticket price.

Toledo to Put-in-Bay

Member Price: $90/person

Non-Member Price: $100/person

Departs Toledo at 10am and returns at 6:30pm.

Travel to Put-in-Bay and explore this Great Lakes gem. Attractions

include the Antique Car Museum, the Historic Fish Hatchery and

Aquatic Education Center, Lake Erie Islands Historical Society

Museum, Stone Laboratory, South Bass Island Lighthouse and Perry’s

Victory and International Peace Memorial. Purchase lunch at one of the

many restaurants in downtown Put-in-Bay. Lunch is not included in

the ticket price.

Museum on the Move

The Soo Locks Bus Tour: Thursday, June 23 to Saturday, June 25, 2016

Member Price: $450/person ($600 for a single room)

Non-member Price: $500/person ($650 for a single room)

Registrations due by June 10, 2016*

The bus departs the National Museum of the Great Lakes at 12pm on

Thursday, June 23 and returns around 8pm on Saturday, June 25.

Join us for the rare opportunity to visit the Soo Locks (in Sault Ste. Marie,

Michigan) for Engineer’s Day. Once a year visitors get the opportunity to go

behind the barriers and actually walk out onto the Soo Locks. You can get

close enough to touch the lake freighters (though we won’t encourage that).

The trip includes visits to the Museum Ship Valley Camp , the Tower of Histo-

ry, the River of History Museum and a dinner cruise that takes you through

the Soo Locks. Before leaving Sault Ste. Marie on Saturday morning, you can

also take part in the International Bridge Walk. Some meals are included in

the ticket price.

*Your fees will be returned in full if we do not reach our minimum reservation requirement. Aerial view of the Soo Locks

Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial

The National Museum of the Great Lakes and museum ship Col. James

M. Schoonmaker

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For more information on Museum on the Move and

other events visit www.inlandseas.org/events.

A Look Back at

Museum on the Move

Detroit River Tour 2015

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The Soo Locks Bus Tour: June 23-25, 2016

There’s More to Come

with Museum on the Move!

Detroit River Tour 2015

2015 was the inaugural year of our Museum on the

Move program. We hoped to introduce our members to

new experiences on the Great Lakes and to introduce

our organization to new people in the Great Lakes

region. We took you on a tour of the Cleveland Harbor

aboard the Holiday in the spring of 2015 and then a

tour of the Detroit River aboard the Diamond Jack in

the fall. We’ve also shown our new documentary A

Good Ship and Crew Well Seasoned: The Fitzgerald and Her

Legacy in Rocky River, Ohio and at the Erie Maritime Muse-

um in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Thank you to everyone who traveled with us to explore

the Great Lakes. We look forward to taking you on

many more adventures!

Based on the interest in the program from its inaugural

year, we are planning some new experiences across the

Great Lakes for our members and friends in 2016.

Along with our Jet Express Trips and our Soo Locks Bus

Tour, we will be having two programs later in the year.

Details are subject to change.

Historical Tour of Marblehead Peninsula: August

2016

-Marblehead Lighthouse, Lafarge Quarry, Lunch at

the Catawba Island Club and a tour of Johnson’s Island.

Detroit River Tour: September 2016

-A trip aboard the Diamond Jack with lunch delivery

by the J W Wescott II, the only floating post office in the

world that delivers mail to ships as they are underway.

We will also continue to show the documentary A

Good Ship and Crew Well Seasoned: The Fitzgerald and Her

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Gift Membership Application

(prices and descriptions on page 8)

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NMGL Caps: Schoonmaker Cap #354

Shenango Furnace Stack Cap #564

$25.95 (Members $23.36)

NMGL block initials or script logo available in:

Navy #186 Stone #185

Faded Blue #187 Bright Pink #188

Apricot #189 Lavender #190

$17.95 (Members $16.16)

Great Lakes T-shirts: Available in the color Lake (shown above)

Small #765 Medium #766

Large #767 X-Large #768

2X-Large #769 3X-Large #770

$14.95 (Members $13.46)

#708 A Good Ship and Crew Well Seasoned:

The Fitzgerald and Her Legacy

$19.95 (Members $17.96) A documentary film produced by the National Museum of

the Great Lakes and Allied Media Group, Inc. The film

explores the less documented and overlooked history of the

Fitzgerald and her crew before their tragic loss through

unpublished manuscript material and photographs while at

the same time reflecting on the impact of their loss on family,

friends and collogues in the maritime community. The film

takes a refreshing break from debating the possible cause of

her loss in order to direct more time to those important

historical questions not yet asked.

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Great Lakes Freighter Minis™ Paper Models Kits: (Recommended for ages 13 and older)

Approximately 17” long: $18.99 (Members $17.09)

Available in:

Col. James M. Schoonmaker (shown) #548 Willis B. Boyer #553

Edmund Fitzgerald #356 Cliffs Victory #357

Paul R. Tregurtha #359 Walter J. McCarthy, Jr. #360

Steamer Regina #358

Celebrate Your Parents with Gifts

From NMGL for Mother’s and Father’s Day!

#710 The Legend Lives On: S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald

by Bruce Lynn and Christopher Winters

$50.00 (Members $45.00) Four decades after the Edmund Fitzgerald vanished from the radar screen of the trailing steamer,

Arthur M. Anderson, the largest ship ever lost on the Great Lakes continues to inspire our

capacity for wonder and grief.

Great Lakes photojournalist, Chris Winters, and Bruce Lynn,

Executive Director of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical

Society, have assembled a comprehensive look at the life and

the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald . Brimming with rare

archival material from GLSHS’s collection and over 250

photographs of the ship above and below the surface, The

Legend Lives On explores the haunting legacy of this vanished

“Queen of the Lakes.”

#572 The Interlake Steamship Company: In Service to America Since 1913

by Ned Whelan

$44.95 (Members $40.46) In 1913, the Interlake Steamship Co. was organized in what the New York Times

called the largest merger of Great Lake vessels since the formation of Pittsburgh

Steamship Company a few years earlier. This 132-page volume is a large-format,

soft-cover, coffee table-style book that tells the company’s history using historical,

personal and topical vignettes, as well as hundreds of images of people, boats and

events.

Are you looking for something you

don’t see in the catalog? Come and

visit the museum store for more

options. Or, give us a call at

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Donate them to our used book sale! Call us at 419.214.5000 ext. 200.

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Museum Gift Membership Program

Celebrate Mother’s or Father’s Day with the gift of a NMGL membership! A gift membership includes free admission

to the National Museum of the Great Lakes and many on-site programs and specified events for an entire year, plus

new gift recipients will receive a NMGL bumper sticker and a signed mini-print of the Col. James M. Schoonmaker by

John Belliveau. Return form on page 6.

Museum Memberships (Does not include Inland Seas®)

Senior Individual* $22

Individual $25

Senior Couple* $30

Couple $35

Grandparent** $40

Family*** $44

Inland Seas Memberships (Includes subscription to Inland Seas® with membership privileges)

Senior* $45 (International addresses $51)

Individual $54 (International addresses $64)

Family*** $60 (International addresses $70)

Contributing $100

Benefactor $200

Patron $500

* Age 65 or older

** Includes 2 adults and all grandchildren under 18.

*** Includes 2 adults and all children under 18 in household.

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