Great Lakes’ curiosities include a mysterious gravestone with a secret code! Dr. Samuel Bean had wanted to honor his first two wives, Susanna and Henrietta, in 1866 with a puzzling epitaph. This fifteen by fifteen array of letters and numbers hadn’t been solved for decades following Dr. Samuel Bean’s untimely […]
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The Great Lakes area holds many examples of human strength as well as sodden hardship. Sainte-Marie Among The Hurons Martyr’s Shrine is a unique site carrying powerful stories woven through centuries. This site had been the center for the Jesuit mission which had run from 1639-1649. The fenced facility and […]
On our overlanding trip into the Algoma Canadian wilderness, our drone had become tangled in some high branches. Sadly, we were unable to recover it. As we neared Wawa, a city meaning “Wild Goose” in Ojibway, Chuck grabbed his phone and called, “Do you have any availability for today or […]
The Great Lakes sea monster, Michepezhoo of Lake Superior, has threaded its way through centuries of legends and remains the center of Ojibwa culture. My husband, Chuck, and I journeyed to Lake Superior Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada to see several ancient pictographs along the Agawa Rock, which included Michepezhoo. […]
East of Wawa, Ontario my husband, Chuck, and I rumbled 50 miles (over 80 km) of dirt roads into the Canadian wilderness in pursuit of two “unimproved” logging settlements, Frater and Eton. Would we reach our destinations? Would we get stuck? Would my supportive undergarments hold up? Would we see […]