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exactly why she sank. She had been listing for several hours

beforehand. The trailing boat had just experienced two 35-foot
waves that came in unusually close succession from behind. The

Fitz disappeared at about the time those two waves would have

reached her and perhaps they caught her broadside??

In the film they showed ore boats being tossed around like corks
on the furious seas that occur here in November. Thirty and Forty

foot waves are whipped by near hurricane winds. So many of the
wrecks occur in these horrible storms. November is not a time to

be on this inland sea.

For the last part of the exhibit, we took a tour of the lighthouse

keeper’s home that had been built in the late 1800’s. It was
decorated downstairs as it would have appeared in 1920 and

upstairs as it would have looked in 1884. It was a very nice, cozy
cottage. A lonely way of life for the man, his wife and children. It

was an 80-mile round trip walk to get to a town.

Dinner at a bar and grill in Paradise and then to the motel for Mr.

Gore’s speech. As the Detroit Free Press says the following
morning, “Gore Does His Sell; Now Time Will Tell”.

On one last note. Lois and I came to this part of the country to try

to learn about the ways of the people who live here. We had no
idea we had so much to learn.

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