We watched the sturgeon moon rise last evening, heralding the harvest season, so the indigenous people of the Great Lakes region would say. Actually, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, it won’t reach its fullness until 8:02 a.m. EST on Sunday, Aug. 22. The Algonquin tribe named this full moon after the sturgeon. August is the …
The French explorer LaSalle entered a large body of water from the straits known as “Detroit,” on August 12, 1679. He named the lake, “St. Clair,” after Saint Clare of Assisi, the Roman Catholic patron saint of fair weather. He was traveling in Le Griffon, the first European-styled ship built in New France and the …
There are thousands of islands in the Great Lakes region. Most of them are uninhabited, but those that are define the term “remote.” Pelee Island, a 16 square mile island in the middle of Lake Erie, is a place that feels, at first, like other small towns in Ontario. When we first started going there …
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