Indian Summer is celebrated on the Milwaukee lake front at Henry Maier Festival Park, known by many as the Summerfest Grounds. This year’s Indian Summer Festival will be held September r7 through 9, 2007. The Theme of the festival is “One Drum, Many Voices”. Indian Summer Festival is the largest American Indian Festival in North ...
Lake Superior never gives up her dead, truer words were never spoken. For hundreds of years the lake called Gitchi Gumi has been claiming both cargo and lives. Constantly reminding people that Mother Nature is a tough Mistress. Many ships have been lost, the list is extremely long, to list them all in one article ...
One hundred years ago, on October 12, 1907, the Cyprus sank in Lake Superior. The wreckage of the ship has been found, about ten miles from where it had been believed that the ship sank. A dive crew was surprised at the discovery of the Cyprus, ten miles from where she had been reported going ...
The Great Lakes region will forever serve as a final resting place for countless crew members and passengers who lost their lives in the estimated 6,000+ shipwrecks that have been seized by Mother Nature. Perhaps one of the most famous of these shipwrecks is the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which was named for the newly appointed ...
Are you coming to attend the University of Minnesota, Duluth for the next school year? Maybe your just passing through for the weekend. A visitors guide to Duluth will make your stay even more exciting. Duluth is full of interesting places to explore. The Duluth News Tribune, the local newspaper, is a great source of ...
Lake superior can make a person feel insignificant, and fisherman in small boats know this better than anyone. Sometimes superior even challenges freighters and ore ships. Yet many years ago canoes provided transportation on the Great Lakes. If you’re careful, you can use a canoe or small inland boat on Lake superior. Although the Lake ...
The war was on and it was time to make a stand. The tribes of the Iroquois had expanded too far. They had all of the lands towards the rising sun, now their greed seemed to drive them towards the Great Lakes, particularly Gitchee Gummee. No more. As Myeengun stood at the sacred rock, he ...
