Events
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MMM Lecture Series: Death and Lighthouses on the Great Lakes
Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United StatesLosing one’s life while tending to a Great Lakes lighthouse—or any navigational beacon anywhere in the world for that matter—sadly wasn’t such an unusual occurrence. Death by murder, drowning, suicide,…
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MMM Lecture Series: Where the Food Grows on the Water
Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United StatesMnomen, or wild rice, is a culturally and historically significant crop for the Native peoples of the Great Lakes. Join us as Cecil Wilson, historian for the Pokagon Band of…
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MMM Lecture Series: USCGC MACKINAW – A Tale of Two Ships
Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United StatesJoin us for an entertaining, informative presentation by author and journalist Mike Fornes about two iconic ships that became known as the “Queen of the Great Lakes”. Since 1944, the…
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MMM Lecture Series: Prohibition in Michigan – How the Waterways Shaped History
Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Avenue, South Haven, MI, United StatesDiscover how Michigan’s rivers, lakes, and shorelines turned into front-line battlegrounds during the era of the 18th Amendment. The Detroit River, St. Clair River, and Lake Michigan were major smuggling…
