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From: Roscoe Clark
Category: Shipwreck Research
Date: 29 Apr 2007
Time: 19:45:27
Remote Name: 71.197.19.171
PLANNED DOWNRIVER CELEBRATIONS. JUNE 7th, 8th and 9th -2008 -
"TWO BIG FIVE-O's FOR RIVER ROUGE, MICHIGAN."
The Mayor, the Commissioners of RIVER ROUGE, and executives of the United States Steel Corporation, are currently planning a celebratory community event in honor of past and present residents who have contributed their manpower and talents to this important mainstay of America's industrial economy.
FIFTY YEAR MILESTONES. (i) While the Great Lakes Engineering Works shipyard has been silent since 1962, after almost FIFTY (50) years of operation, there are many community retirees who remember most of the massive Great Lakes freighters; other notable vessels; and steel fabrications; that were built during wartime and when our downriver industrial might was expanding.
(ii) And, yet another FIFTY (50) years ago, on Saturday June 7th 1958, the shipyard side-launched the S.S. EDMUND FITZGERALD which was the first, largest and fastest straight-decker bulk-ore carrier on the Great Lakes for St. Lawrence Seaway service.
The planners of the 2008 event welcome other community inputs since River Rouge has significantly contributed to making America an industrial giant from the early days of Michigan's history.
At that time, literacy and innovation were the hallmarks of her business environment, with the Detroit area as the principal industrial city, port and staging post for the distribution of Michigan-produced goods and services.
» We would like this event to become a social and business celebration of the road already travelled and new directions to be taken, so please mark your 2008 calendars and contact us for further background and voluntary participation opportunities as preliminary planning progresses «