While Northeast Wisconsin and the rest of the midwest braces for a heat wave…
Algoma, aka ‘Penguin City’, will be nice and comfortable for the 4th! Why don’t you come on over and drop huge amounts of money into our local economy? :-D
What a way to start the day!
My two youngest sons and I started our day at 3AM with Captain Darrell Gardner of the Aloha out of Kewaunee, WI. What a great way to start the weekend with Salmon and Trout for dinner! Click the image to enlarge…
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Christmas Tree Ship Presentation
The Door County Maritime Museum has a special event coming up that I’m sure I’ll be attending, being from Algoma and all. Why don’t you join me?
Join us to hear Rochelle Pennington, the author of The Christmas Tree Ship.
Pennington’s verbal presentation will focus on many of the little-known facts surrounding the story including the ship’s mysterious disappearance, clues washed ashore in the decades following the vessel’s demise, ghost ship sightings of the phantom schooner, and mysterious omens believed to have cursed the ship immediately before it set sail on its final voyage on November 22, 1912.
Pennington’s power-point presentation will include many of the century-old photographs of Captain Schuenemann, his family, and the ship. In addition, the author will have several artifacts along with her to share with the audience: an axe used to chop trees down, dishes, a spittoon, a clay pipe, an ornament carved from one of the first Christmas trees raised from the sunken ship in 1971 when the vessel was discovered, and an actual Christmas tree from the cargo. Underwater photos of the ship in its present state, with trees still visible in the cargo area, will be on display as well.
“Author Rochelle Pennington has written two books detailing one of the most well-known shipwrecks of the Great Lakes, Lake Michigan‘s Christmas Tree Ship, which delivered holiday evergreens to the citizens of Chicago each Chirstmas season before it was caught in the “Great Storm of 1912″ and subsequently went to the bottom of the lake fully loaded with trees.”
She will be with us at 2:00 pm on June 24, 2012 at the Museum to do a presentation. Pennington will also be signing books. Copies of both Rochelle’s books, The Christmas Tree Ship: The Story of Captain Santa and The Historic Christmas Tree Ship: A True Story of Faith, Hope and Love are available in our Museum store.
Get more here: Christmas Tree Ship Presentation | Door County Maritime Museum.
Algoma offers fishing splendor
On the western shoreline of Lake Michigan sits the small town of Algoma, Wis. Although its population is just more than 3,000 residents, Algoma is one of the main ports for anglers wanting to experience some of the finest Great Lakes fishing you’ll find.
Located on the mouth of the Ahnapee River, thousands of fishermen from across the country come here during the open water season. Catching salmon and trout is the game they play here, and this year Lake Michigan has not disappointed.
Brothers Bryan and Brad Wiesner have lived their entire lives in the area and grew up fishing this water.
For the past nine years, the two fishermen have run charter boats for Kinn’s Sport Fishing out of Algoma.
Charter fishing is big business on Lake Michigan, and the Algoma port is one of the best to go out of for king salmon and steelhead.
With Kinn’s fleet of 10 boats in operation, it’s a seven-days-a-week job for the Wiesner brothers, as it is for most other charter boat captains on the lake.
“Between the 10 boats, we did over 1,300 trips last year out of here,” Brad said.
“It’s a job for us now, so don’t ever take a hobby and turn it into a job.”
via Wisconsin salmon bonanza: Algoma offers fishing splendor | St. Cloud TIMES | sctimes.com.
I can’t believe they write about our little Algoma way over there in St. Cloud, but I guess they do. They may even appreciate our little corner of the world more than we do sometimes! :-D
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The Manistee
Yesterday, while my wife and I were enjoying a fine microbrew at The Titletown Brewing Company, traffic started to pile up as the bridges went up and a ship almost two football fields long went up the Fox River. Thanks to the miracle of the internet, here is her story:
Continue reading “The Manistee”
Bright, shiny objects! 
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