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Author: Fred Neuschel
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780472116232
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The real life stories behind one of the most popular tales of the Great Lakes---the 1912 sinking of the Rouse Simmons
Author: Carol Crane
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Published: 2011-09-19
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1410365751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On November 21, 1912, the schooner Rouse Simmons set sail from a small northern Michigan town across Lake Michigan. Affectionately dubbed the "Christmas Tree Ship," this was an annual trek for the Rouse Simmons. With its cargo of Christmas trees, the ship was bound for Chicago. There Captain Herman Scheunemann would sell the trees for 50 cents or $1.00 and even gave many away to needy families. But the schooner never makes its destination. The Rouse Simmons, with all hands and cargo, disappears into the cold waters. The ship's wreckage is not found until 1971. Drawing from stories told by her grandfather, author Carol Crane weaves a fictional tale based on the true events of the doomed schooner. And she explains how the captain's widow went on to continue his tradition of delivering holiday trees to Chicago. Carol Crane's many books for Sleeping Bear Press include the best-selling P is for Pilgrim: A Thanksgiving Alphabet and The Handkerchief Quilt. As a literacy advocate, Carol speaks at schools and conferences. She lives in North Carolina. Chris Ellison has illustrated children's picture books and adult historical fiction for nearly 20 years. His book Let Them Play was a 2006 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People. Chris lives in Mississippi.
Author: Judith Flesvig Merwald
Publisher:
Published: 1993-12-01
Total Pages: 17
ISBN-13: 9780964385900
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Each winter the fishing schooner Rouse Simmons is filled with Christmas trees and sailed down Lake Michigan, then the trees are delivered to the residents of Chicago.
Author: Sylvia Shults
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Published: 2017-11-14
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What darkness lurks beneath the Season of Lights? T'was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring … but are you sure about that? The dark winter nights can hold many secrets. Sylvia Shults has gathered over 120 tales of Christmas ghosts, giving new meaning to "the dead of winter". Shults organizes the book around seven themes. They encompass everything from strange Christmas customs ("We Wish You A Merry Christmas … Or Else!"), to the season's monsters ("He Sees You When You're Sleeping"), to ghost stories of Christmas ("'Tis The Season" and "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear"). Unwrap this book, and shiver your way through this great collection of gho-ho-hosts.
Author: Rochelle M. Pennington
Publisher: The Guest Cottage, Inc.
Published: 2002-10
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781930596191
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Every year Captain Herman Schuenemann and his 'Christmas Tree Ship' would bring a load of fresh Christmas trees from Michigan to Chicago. But in 1912, the fully loaded ship was unable to withstand a winter storm and sank in Lake Michigan near Two Rivers, Wisconsin.
Author: Rochelle Pennington
Publisher: Pathways Press (Wi)
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Every year Captain Herman Schuenemann and his 'Christmas Tree Ship' would bring a load of fresh Christmas trees from Michigan to Chicago. But in 1912, the fully loaded ship was unable to withstand a winter storm and sank in Lake Michigan near Two Rivers, Wisconsin.
Author: Carl Behrend
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780972821292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: George D. Jepson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-12-15
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 1493077643
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Great Lakes were America’s first superhighway before railroad lines and roads arrived in the late nineteenth century. This book tells the story of the ships and boats on which the United States, barely decades old, moved to the country’s middle and beyond, established a robust industrial base, and became a world power, despite enduring a bloody Civil War. The “five sisters,” as the Great Lakes came to be called, would connect America’s far-reaching regions in the century ahead, carrying streams of Irish, German, and Scandinavian settlers to new lives, as the young nation expanded west. Initially, schooner fleets delivered passengers and goods to settlements along the lakes, including Chicago, Milwaukee, and Green Bay, and returned east with grain, lumber, and iron ore. Steam-driven vessels, including the lavish “palace” passenger steamers, followed, along with those specially designed to carry coal, grain, and iron ore. The era also produced a flourishing shipbuilding industry and saw recreational boating advance. In text and photographs, this book tells the story of a bygone era, of mariners and Mackinaw Boats, schooners and steamboats, all helping to advance the young nation westward.
Author: Marie Helena Cisneros
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2022-08-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1439675600
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A haunted history of one of Western Michigan's oldest cities Once a booming lumber town, Muskegon today harbors not just ghosts of long-gone industry but maybe actual ghosts, too. An apparition in Victorian clothing walks past Hackley Library patrons and disappears into a wall. Some believe him to be none other than philanthropist and lumber baron Charles Hackley. In the Hume House, the ghost of a young woman gloomily peers down at visitors from an upstairs window. Visitors to the museum on LST 393 often see a shadowy figure or hear someone walking behind them as they walk through the hallways, but when they turned around to look, no one's there. Join author Marie Helena Cisneros delves into thirteen spine-tingling supernatural tales from Muskegon's past.
