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Schooner Days: Wisconsin's flagship and the rebirth of discovery worldBuilding the lake schooner Denis Sullivan, and the rebirth of Discovery World museum on Milwaukee’s Municipal Pier remains one of the most remarkable stories of commitment, perseverance, and philanthropy in the history of U.S. not-for-profit organizations.
Today the Denis Sullivan sails as the official flagship of the State of Wisconsin, and remains a towering symbol of environmental awakening. People from all walks of life labored for over decade to breathe life into the Sullivan, a "Symbol of the Possible." Continue Reading. |
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Centennial: steaming Through the American centuryDiscovery World at Pier Wisconsin’s staff photographer, Chris Winters, spent five years creating a vivid record of life aboard the venerable Great Lakes steamboat S.S. St. Marys Challenger as she approached the centennial anniversary of her maiden voyage in 2006. A frequent visitor to Milwaukee’s harbor, and believed to be the oldest operational bulk freighter in the world, the Challenger began her remarkable fresh water career on the Great Lakes on April 28, 1906 — six years before the launch of the R.M.S. Titanic. Continue Reading
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The Legend lives on: s.s. edmund fitzgeraldThe mighty S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald was launched into Detroit, Michigan’s Rouge River on June 17, 1958, before an assembled crowd of thousands. Named for the board chairman of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she was the largest bulk carrier on the Great Lakes. Continue Reading.
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