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Page 142 MEMBERSHIP NOTES • On Saturday, December 12th, the combined collections of Harry Wolf and Gordon Potter will go on auction at the Dossin Museum. With the passing of Harry Wolf, his silent auctions will no longer take place. Appropriately enough, Gordon Potter had been supplying the silent auctions with material for some time. Tentative plans are to have the material on display the Thursday and Friday before the acution. Additional information on the starting time will be sent to all members. The collections contain black & white and color photographs and enlargements, books on Detroit, Great Lakes, railroads, brochures on lakes, ocean liners/cruise ships, automotive magazines from 1910 to 1970's, Life, Look, Telescope, Detroit Marine Historian. Postcards from the lakes, S.S. South American and multiples from the Georgian Bay Lines. The Michigan Nautical Time Capsules exhibit at the museum will close in the fall of 1988. Since we still have over 300 MNTC exhibit books in stock, we are now discounting the MNTC book and the Edmund Fitzgerald 1957-1975. Both books retail for $5.00 each, but members can purchase both books for $8.00 plus $1.50 postage. New items for sale at the museum include three new ship mugs: North American. Belle River and Tashmoo. They retail for $6.00 plus $2.50 postage. Mike Dixon has published Life at the Flats - The Golden Era. This book continues the history of the St. Clair Flats area around the turn of the century when it was a famous resort area. The book retails for $34.50 plus $2.50 for postage. Eric Hirsimaki has written The Lakers, the first all color book covering the past and present American and Canadian freighters. The 128-page, softcover book covers many type of vessels that have sailed the lakes and includes dimensions and history of each vessel covered. The book can be purchased at the museum for $32.50 plus $1.75 postage or ordered directly from The Lakers, 3963 Dryden Dr., N. Olmsted, OH. 44070. MEETING NOTICES • Capt. Graham Gratten will be our guest speaker at the next entertainment meeting scheduled for Friday, January 22, 1988 at 8:00 p.m. at Dossin. The next Board of Directors meeting (which all members are invited to attend), will be on Thursday, January 7, 1988 at 7:30 p.m. at Dossin. CONTENTS • Membership notes, Meeting notices etc. 142 The Opening of the Livingstone Channel by Robert E. Lee 143 The Sleeping Giant by Howard H. Peterson 149 More Than a Mere Barge by Paul G. Wiening 152 Great Lakes & Seaway News Edited by Don Richards 158 Index Volume XXXVI - 1987 169 Published at Detroit, Michigan by the GREAT LAKES MARITIME INSTITUTE ©All rights reserved. Printed in the United States by Macomb Printing Specialties. OUR COVER PICTURE . . . Had the captain of the Algosoo been sailing before 1912, he would have kept a careful eye on the water when he proceeded downbound over the Lime Kiln Crossing in the Amherstburg Channel. With the construction of the Livingstone Channel, freighters have an independent waterway, downbound behind Bob-Lo Island. This photo of the Algosoo was taken by Mike Crawford. pi Telescope is produced with assistance from the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, an agency of the Historical Department of the City of Detroit.