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MEMBERSHIP NOTES • Nov.-Dee. Exhibit - "The City On The Straits: The History & Ecology of the Detroit River" - The new interpretive exhibition on the history and ecology of the Detroit River will include interactive displays, a restoration of a 150 year old paddlewheel, ship models, and a number of maritime artifacts. - Inspect the 21 foot paddlewheel from the 1850 steamboat NORTHERNER, the only side wheel paddlewheel in a Great Lakes museum. - Count the automobiles on the only scale model in a Great Lakes museum of an automobile carrying freighter. - Bring your camera and have your photo taken while seated in the Bob-Lo Island Swan Boat Ride. Dec. 7 Marine Mart - At Harbor Hill Marina at the foot of St. Jean , Detroit - Saturday, 10 am - 3 pm The dealers in books, artwork, slides, and artifacts will again fill the main room at Harbor Hill Marina with a selection of Great Lakes collectibles. This is your opportunity to get that hard-to-buy-for Christmas gift. To find the site head east from Belle Isle on Jefferson to St. Jean. Follow St. Jean towards the river and you will run into the marina parking lot. For more information call the Dossin Great Lakes Museum at 313-852-4051. Dec. 9 "Rumrunning & Bootlegging" - Tune in to the History Channel, 9 - 11 pm, for the national airing of this documentry filmed mostly in and around Detroit. GLMI Board members, Mac McAdam along with Fred Alter and others were instrumental in the filming for this program. December Visit the Ship s Store at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum and see the many new books and items on sale - just in time for holiday gifts. December hours: Weds.-Sun., 10 am - 5 pm. Closed 12/25/02. Dec. 26-27 Ford Fleet Festival - On hand will be members of Detroit Lodge #7 of International Shipmasters Association along with members of the former Ford Fleet to talk about life on the Great Lakes 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. CONTENTS • Twin, Sunken Ferries Rediscovered in Lake Huron Minesweeper With A Cabbage Heart . . Diving Group to Sink Old Mackinac Ferry. . Great Lakes & Seaway News . . . 69 OUR COVER PICTURE . . . The MANTADOC upbound at Homer Bridge on Welland Canal, October 22, 2000. See March 21st and April 10th Seaway News. Photo by Jim Moren. Telescope© is produced with assistance from the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, an agency of the Historical Department of the City of Detroit. Visit our Website at: http://www.glmi.org Published at Detroit, Michigan by the GREAT LAKES MARITIME INSTITUTE ©All rights reserved. Printed in the United States by Macomb Printing, Inc.