Posted by Brendon Baillod on January 12, 19100 at 20:18:13:
A new annual conference for Great Lakes historians, researchers, divers
and underwater archeologists will be held at the Milwaukee Public
Library's Centennial Hall on Saturday, March 25th, 2000 from 10:00 AM to
9:00 PM. Called the Ghost Ships Festival, the event will feature films,
seminars and presentations by divers, historians, archeologists,
researchers and wreckhunters from around the Great Lakes region. Tickets
for this event will be $20 in advance or $25 at the door and proceeds
will be used to fund the preservation of Great Lakes wrecks. The Ghost
Ships Festival is hosted by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Research
Foundation, Inc., a non profit organization. For more information, go to
the Ghost Ships Festival website at www.ghost-ships.org. An online
registration form is available.
Presenters include:
Ed Ellison - The Wreck of the schooner Defiance
Steve Lewis - Technical and Trimix Diving
Jefferson Gray - Wisconsin State Underwater Archeologist
Kimm Stabelfeldt & Brendon Baillod - Methods and Resources for
Researching Great Lakes Shipwrecks
The Underwater Archeological Society of Chicago - The wrecks
of the schooner St. Marys and steamer Seabird
Wisconsin Marine Historical Society/Milwaukee Public Library -
The Herman Runge Great Lakes Marine Collection
Ric Mixter - Deep Six: Great Lakes Leviathans: The six largest
vessels ever lost on the lakes
Jerry Guyer - Milwaukee Charter Captain - Zebra Mussel Impact
on Great Lakes Wrecks
C. Patrick Labadie - Director of Duluth's Canal Park Museum -
To Be Announced
Dr. Richard Boyd - The Raising of the Alvin Clark
Bob Duchrow - The Wreck of the schooner E.R. Williams
Larry Boucha - Scuba Systems, Skokie, IL - The Shipwrecks of
Whitefish Point
Al Brown - The Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society -
Stabilizing the Wreck of the America
Mark Gumbinger - The Wreck of the Lady Elgin
Ken Vrana, Gail Vander Stoep & Hawk Tolson - Michigan State
University Center for Maritime & Underwater Resource Management
Ellen Brody, Jessica Pitelka - Proposed Thunder Bay National
Marine Sanctuary
Thaddius Bedford - Great Lakes Underwater Shipwreck
Photography