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National Museum of the Great Lakes

 Posted by Nick Russell at 12:07 am  Nick's Blog
Nov 272019
 

When I was in high school in Toledo, Ohio, the father of one of my friends was a seaman working on freighters plying the Great Lakes. A couple of times when he was in port my buddy and I went down to the ship, a massive freighter, and he gave us a tour. I can […]

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