Monday, July 2 in the Eagle Harbor School Community Room

Explore shipping on the Great Lakes

Discover which cargoes are shipped on the Great Lakes

Locate key shipping ports.

Learn some shipping lingo.

Watch a short video clip to learn the story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 729-foot freighter carrying 26,000 tons of iron ore, when it was overtaken by a terrible storm in Lake Superior with all 29 hands lost on November 10, 1975.

Design your own freighter and see which ship can carry the largest load!

Captain Hanrahan of NPS Top and left

For more information, call the Keweenaw County Historical Society.

Sponsored by the Keweenaw County Historical Society

and conducted by the Western Upper Peninsula Center for Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education

with funding from the Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute and The Wege Foundation