Maritime Speaker Series Begins 2017018 Season

The Maritime Speaker Series returns to the Door County Maritime Museum for the 2017-2018 season. This year boasts an impressive lineup of speakers to educate and entertain maritime enthusiasts. The series runs the first Thursday of each month and kicks off Nov. 2 with award-winning columnist and author of 10 books, Rochelle Pennington, who will speak about the Rouse Simmons, The Christmas Tree Ship. Pennington’s talk will cover the true account of the Christmas Tree Ship, considered “the most loved story of the Great Lakes.” Pennington’s presentation includes original photographs and focuses on little-known facts – clues washed ashore in the decades following the ship’s mysterious disappearance, ghost ship sightings and omens believed to have fixed the fate of the vessel before it set sail Nov. 22, 1912. Artifacts raised from the sunken ship will be on display, along with underwater photos of the ship in its current state at the bottom of Lake Michigan.