The National Museum of the Great Lakes is pleased to host the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Association for Great Lakes Maritime History. Museum professionals and historians from around the Great Lakes will gather in Toledo September 6 – 8, 2018. There are a number of different events over the course of the meeting, and all events are open to the public. Below is a schedule of events with a link to tickets at the bottom.
Friday, September 7
9:00 a.m. Registration
9:30 a.m. Association Business Meeting
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. 2018 Museum Members’ Round Table
3:00 p.m. Guided tour of the Col. James M. Schoonmaker Museum Ship
5:00 p.m. Dinner on Your Own
Saturday, September 8
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration and Welcome
9:00 – 12:00 p.m. History Programs
“Discovery of the Argo: The Great Lakes’ Top Environmental Hazard” – by Tom Kowalczk of the Cleveland Underwater Explorers
“The Journey of the Leroy Brooks, Toledo, 1891” – by Dan Welsh
“James Fraser Paige and the Rise of the Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company, 1917-1919” – by Michael Moir, University Archivist, York University, Toronto, Ontario
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. History Program
“Solving the Mystery of the SS Lakeland” – by Tamara Thomsen, Maritime Archaeologist, Wisconsin Historical Society
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. 2018 Great Lakes Maritime History Research Roundtable –
“The Archives of NW Ohio and SE Michigan”
Featuring:
Jill Clever, Local History & Genealogy, Toledo-Lucas County Public Library
Matthew Daley, Associate Professor of History, Grand Valley State University (Dowling Collection – University of Detroit Mercy)
Julie Mayle, Associate Curator of Manuscripts, Hayes Presidential Center
Mark Sprang, Archivist, Historical Collection of the Great Lakes, Bowling Green State University
Joel Stone, Curator, Detroit Historical Society / Dossin Museum
6:00 p.m. Association for Great Lakes Maritime History’s Annual Dinner and Awards Program
Reception (cash bar) and Dinner at Promedica Steam Plant – 100 Madison Ave in Toledo
Keynote Speaker: David R. Bush, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, Chair, Friends and Descendants of Johnson’s Island Civil War Prison
“The Role of Lake Erie at the Johnson’s Island Civil War Military Prison: View from the Bottom of a Latrine”
The United States chose western Lake Erie as the location to house captured Prisoners of War. Escape from Johnson’s Island was complicated, in no part due to its location in Sandusky Bay of Lake Erie. Archaeological and historical evidence traces the perils of escape from the bottom of a latrine to crossing Lake Erie to Canada.
A full synopsis of the event can be found with this downloadable PDF – https://nmgl.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018-AGLMH-Registration-Materials.pdf
