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LE CHENE No. 1 ex EDOUARD SIMARD Amherstburg Dock '83 Bill Luke, Editor The Marysville Steam Generating Plant of the Detroit Edison Company was the scene on June 11th of the Great Lakes Live Steam Whistle Blast, sponsored by the Port Huron-based Lake Huron Lore Marine Society and the Museum of Arts and History and hosted by the Detroit Edison Company. Over six hundred whistle and boat buffs from as far as Colorado assembled during the six-hour program to be regaled by the sight and sounds of whistles from such memorable Great Lakes passenger steamers as Georgian Bay Line's NORTH AMERICAN and SOUTH AMERICAN, C&B's CITY OF BUFFALO and CITY OF ERIE, Goodrich Transit's CHRISTOPHER COLUM BUS, tugs YVON DUPRE, JR., and JESSE JAMES, bulkers BUCKEYE, JOSEPH H. FRANTZ, FERNDALE, H. C. HEIMBECKER, SIDNEY E. SMITH, JR., and SYLVANIA and early Lakes' steamers IRON CHIEF, Editor Photo KALKASKA, SYDNEY (on MCLOUTH, NASHUA, PILGRIM, THOMAS D. STIMSON and ELIZA STRONG. Another notable entry was the big whistle from the whaleback FRANK ROCKEFELLER, now the museum boat METEOR at Superior, Wisconsin. While compressed air whistle toots have been held at St. Clair and Cleveland in recent years, the June 11th Marysville program marked the first such affair conducted under live steam in Great Lakes' history. Those present will attest to the realism achieved with 125 pounds of steam pressure. Salutes from passing vessels added to the occasion, held in ideal weather on St. Clair River's shore. Of particular impact were two captain's salutes provided by member Captain Don Erickson from Ford's steamer WILLIAM CLAY FORD and Captain L. Fulford of Q&O's steamer MELDRUM BAY, the latter using both tyfon and steam whistles in the familiar three-long and two-short blast salute to the assembled group. In all, over a hundred tooters participated in the festivities, many blown on an air line set up by the Edison crew. The larger whistles were mounted on the big steam manifold, positioned-gn the Marysville plant's balcony overlooking the river. Several big locomotive whistles were also blown, to the @ e@