Lost laker lamented: they still ring the bell at Detroit's Mariners Church every November 10, 29 times to mark one of the worst modern maritime disasters in the history of the Great Lakes.
Nearby, on Belle Isle in the Detroit River on that same date volunteers place 29 brass oil lamps with 29 names on plaques around a massive anchor at the Dossin Museum. And, on the 10th of November, 29 candles burn and 29 names are read at Minnesota's Split Rock Lighthouse overlooking Lake Superior,
Touring the Great Lake's Lighthouses On a lonely point on the Michigan shore of Lake Superior, a tumbledown brick structure sits amid blueberries, birch, and fireweed. The windows are missing, as is most of the roof. Bricks have fallen from crumbled mortar. Graffiti mars the walls despite this