Speaker Series: Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes

The five Great Lakes make up the largest expanse of freshwater on earth. They are also five of the deadliest bodies of water that have sent 6,000-10,000 ships to a watery grave and caused the death of thousands of sailors and passengers. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the most famous Great Lakes shipwreck, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, that sank in Lake Superior during a furious storm on November 10, 1975. Join St. Joseph County Historian and Archivist, Travis Childs, as he highlights a few of these 6,000 shipwrecks that have happened in the Great Lakes.

You may also like the following events from Studebaker National Museum:

• Next Saturday, 16th August, 09:30 am, Touch-A-Truck: Presented by Whiteford Kenworth in South Bend
• This month, 20th August, 01:30 pm, Speaker Series: South Bend’s Houses on the Move: From Tradition to Technology in South Bend
• Next month, 6th September, 08:00 am, Cars & Coffee: Presented by Donovan Hawkes State Farm Agency in New Carlisle