Friday, August 15, 2008
Mackinaw Tours
Tours of the icebreaker Mackinaw are now possible. See The Mackinaw Cutter at MyNorth.com.
Labels: history
Friday, July 11, 2008
HMS Ontario Found
While this is nowhere near Neebish Island, I know many people have an interest in the shipwrecks of the Great Lakes.
MSNBC - 1780 British warship found in Lake Ontario: Intact 80-foot sloop is oldest ever found in the Great Lakes
MSNBC - 1780 British warship found in Lake Ontario: Intact 80-foot sloop is oldest ever found in the Great Lakes
Labels: history
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Quonset Huts
I didn't know what Quonset Huts were. Wikipedia explains them as:
Apparently there's one on Neebish Island that was spotted by someone who goes around looking for these.
See:
Neebish Island nearly Goneset Hut
A Quonset hut is a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated steel having a semicircular cross section
Apparently there's one on Neebish Island that was spotted by someone who goes around looking for these.
See:
Neebish Island nearly Goneset Hut
Labels: history
Thursday, February 07, 2008
The Search For The Griffon
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Salt Of The Earth
And the salt of Neebish Island, Cliffy, has passed away. And with him a some of the Island's flavor has been lost.
In the Soo Evening News -
TYNER, CLIFFORD, age 80, of Neebish Island, Michigan passed away early Tuesday morning, January 8, 2008 at his home.
C.S. Mulder Funeral Home is handling funeral arrangements.
They have a nice obituary up. I love the reference to ferry time [who doesn't remember getting a phone call that Cliff was making the last ferry run of the season that very day?]:
Many of us have memories of "Captain Crunch", the 40 year ferry captain of the Neebish Islander I . I remember when he told me after a beaver had downed an aspen tree onto our power line - "ahh, it's a junk tree anyway..." Many people probably have dreams of writing a book about Neebish Island some day; Cliffy's life deserves a book of its own.
In the Soo Evening News -
TYNER, CLIFFORD, age 80, of Neebish Island, Michigan passed away early Tuesday morning, January 8, 2008 at his home.
C.S. Mulder Funeral Home is handling funeral arrangements.
They have a nice obituary up. I love the reference to ferry time [who doesn't remember getting a phone call that Cliff was making the last ferry run of the season that very day?]:
Traditions he handed down to us were making maple syrup, life according to ferry time, hunting, gardening, storytelling and a love for the outdoors.
Many of us have memories of "Captain Crunch", the 40 year ferry captain of the Neebish Islander I . I remember when he told me after a beaver had downed an aspen tree onto our power line - "ahh, it's a junk tree anyway..." Many people probably have dreams of writing a book about Neebish Island some day; Cliffy's life deserves a book of its own.
Labels: ferry, history, people
Friday, November 30, 2007
Hike To The Middle Neebish Lighthouse
Someone took pictures of their late autumn hike to the Middle Neebish Lighthouse - dwhike's Adventure's > Middle Neebish Lighthouse, MI
You can find a map of Neebish Island with this light's location at lighthousefriends.com - Middle Neebish (Lower Nicolet) Range, MI
And there is book about tending this lighthouse. Guiding the way from Middle Neebish
by Edward T. Cook. (if you buy the book after clicking that link it helps support this site)
You can find a map of Neebish Island with this light's location at lighthousefriends.com - Middle Neebish (Lower Nicolet) Range, MI
And there is book about tending this lighthouse. Guiding the way from Middle Neebish
by Edward T. Cook. (if you buy the book after clicking that link it helps support this site)Labels: freighter, history, water, weather
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
The Great Lakes Wolf Is Extinct
Fascinating story at the NY Times today - Off Endangered List, but What Animal Is It Now?
...the wolf boomed in population to 4,000 in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin today, up from just several hundred in northern Minnesota in 1974.
But the victory celebration was premature, according to two evolutionary biologists, Jennifer A. Leonard of Uppsala University in Sweden and Robert K. Wayne of the University of California, Los Angeles. The historic Great Lakes wolf did not return intact from the edge of oblivion. Instead, the scientists report in the online edition of the journal Biology Letters, it hybridized with gray wolves moving in from Canada, coyotes from the south and west and the hybrids born of that mixing.
...
“What’s new in this paper,” he said, “is that they found no evidence of hybridization with coyotes in the historic samples — and no pure historic wolves in the current samples.”
Labels: history, wildlife, wolves
Friday, September 28, 2007
The Mackinaw Boat
The Mackinaw Boat was the classic fur trading boat.
Functional and beautiful. It'd be a fun boat to build someday.
Functional and beautiful. It'd be a fun boat to build someday.
Labels: history
Monday, September 24, 2007
Interesting E-Bay Item From Neebish's Past
1905 Neebish Michigan Cancel DPO UP Chipewa County
Ebay user adman881 is selling a postcard from 1905 that was apparently sent from the old Neebish Island post office by someone staying at Sailor's Encampment to Cardington, OH. An interesting tidbit is that the Neebish postmark is 1906 but the received postmark is September 5, 1905.
The auction ends September 27th.
Ebay user adman881 is selling a postcard from 1905 that was apparently sent from the old Neebish Island post office by someone staying at Sailor's Encampment to Cardington, OH. An interesting tidbit is that the Neebish postmark is 1906 but the received postmark is September 5, 1905.
The auction ends September 27th.
Labels: history
