MILWAUKEE CLIPPER

MILWAUKEE CLIPPER

ROCKS OF THE WORLD

The rocks in the pile shown above were collected from all over the earth over a period of years by Mr. H. P. Parmelee, the original owner of the BREEZY POINT cottage located near the upper channel. Like the postman whose hobby was hiking Mr. Parmelee was a geologist whose sole hobby was collecting rocks from far and wide. Mrs. Bisbee, the present owner of BREEZY POINT, had the rocks removed to get rid of snakes that had made the pile their habitat. The rocks were buried on the terrace at 45 Belvedere Club, the Boucher cottage, where they await some geologist of the far distant future, astonished and agog at finding bits of the far-flung world so neatly assembled.

THE NEW BRIDGE

Looking north on Bridge Street early fall of 1947. The piles of crushed rock are to be used for the concrete of the new Bridge. The temporary road and float bridge can be seen at the center and right in the picture.

THE NORTH AMERICAN

The NORTH AMERICAN is pictured above at the city dock, on her last visit to Charlevoix. A few years later she was sold to the International Seafarers Union, to be used as a training ship. On September 14, 1967, while being towed down the east coast to Piney Point, Maryland, she suddenly sank in 200 feet of water, fiteen miles N.E. of Nantucket Island. Why she sank was never determined, but after all, she was a fresh water ship.