Posted by Brendon Baillod on February 19, 19100 at 12:42:13:
On Saturday, March 25th, the first annual Ghost Ships Festival will be held at the Milwaukee Public Library's Centennial Hall in Downtown Milwaukee. The one day event will last from 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM and will feature, films, lectures and presentations from noted Great Lakes Marine Historians, divers, wreckhunters and Underwater Archeologists. Tours of the Milwaukee Public Library's Great Lakes Marine Collection and the Wisconsin Lake Schooner will be offered as well. The festival is being presented by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Research Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitible organization. Proceeds from this year's festival will be used to place mooring buoys on endangered Great Lakes shipwrecks. For tickets and information, visit the www.ghost-ships.org
This year's presentations include:
C. Patrick Labadie - Director of Duluth's Canal Park Museum - Riddle of the Naubinway Sands
Ed Ellison - Middle Island Mystery Schooner & With A Bone In It's Teeth: The Story of the S.S. Florida
Bob Duchrow - The Wreck of the Schooner E.R. Williams
Dr. Richard Boyd - The Raising of the Alvin Clark
Steve Lewis - Technical and Trimix Diving
Mark Gumbinger - The Wreck of the Lady Elgin
Jefferson Gray - Wisconsin State Underwater Archeologist
Kimm Stabelfeldt & Brendon Baillod - Great Lakes Shipwrecks Research Methodology
The Underwater Archeological Society of Chicago-The Seabird Tragedy ( Bob Gadbois) & The Wreck of the St. Mary (Joe Oliver & Keith Pearson)
Wisconsin Marine Historical Society/Milwaukee Public Library - Tours of 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
Larry Boucha - Scuba Systems, Skokie, IL - The Shipwrecks of Whitefish Point
Al Brown - The Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society -Preservation of the S.S> America, Isle Royale
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