Wreck of old boat revealed on Lake Michigan beach

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GLEN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The harsh winter and Lake Michigan
waves have revealed the wreck of a large boat along a northwestern Lower
Peninsula beach that may be more than 100 years old.
Ward Lamphere tells the Traverse City Record-Eagle (http://bit.ly/1e7DAHe ) that he was walking about a
mile north of Glen Arbor in Leelanau
County on March 31 when he saw a 40-foot-long string of large, worn
wooden objects poking out of the sand.
The wreck is north of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, but will be included in a database
maintained by the park.
Lamphere,
who has a condominium at the nearby Homestead Resort, says he connected
with Kerry Kelly, chairman of the board for Friends of the Sleeping
Bear, and Kelly visited the site. Kelly recorded the specifications and
photographed the wreck.
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Information from: Traverse City Record-Eagle, http://www.record-eagle.com
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed.
GLEN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The harsh winter and Lake Michigan
waves have revealed the wreck of a large boat along a northwestern Lower
Peninsula beach that may be more than 100 years old.
Ward Lamphere tells the Traverse City Record-Eagle (http://bit.ly/1e7DAHe ) that he was walking about a
mile north of Glen Arbor in Leelanau
County on March 31 when he saw a 40-foot-long string of large, worn
wooden objects poking out of the sand.
The wreck is north of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, but will be included in a database
maintained by the park.
Lamphere,
who has a condominium at the nearby Homestead Resort, says he connected
with Kerry Kelly, chairman of the board for Friends of the Sleeping
Bear, and Kelly visited the site. Kelly recorded the specifications and
photographed the wreck.
___
Information from: Traverse City Record-Eagle, http://www.record-eagle.com
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed.

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