Evening Sessions- Manitou Mysteries Shipwreck Adventure

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Educational, Lectures

Age Group:

Adults
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The Evening Sessions is a monthly adult program series featuring a fun and engaging mix of presentations, lectures, workshops, demonstrations, author visits, and performances on topics covering the arts, culture, history, science, and more!

Journey to the waters off the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Northern Lake Michigan and join author and shipwreck hunter Ross Richardson in exploring the histories and mysteries of the Manitou Passage, one of the deadliest areas on the great lakes.  An undiscovered fleet of shipwrecked ghost-ships lies off that rugged coast, just waiting to be found.  Learn their stories and explore a newly discovered mystery schooner thought to be one of the most intact shipwrecks on the planet.

michiganmysteries.com

 

Author and shipwreck hunter Ross Richardson has spent the last two decades exploring the bottom of the Great Lakes and discovering and documenting long lost shipwrecks. His website, michiganmysteries.com, is dedicated to the stories of the missing ships, missing aircraft and missing persons of the Michigan Region. Richardson is a librarian at the Almira Township Library and is on the board of directors at the Maritime Heritage Alliance in Traverse City. He spends his spare time researching the regions mysteries and building models of Great Lakes vessels.

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