Eight Steamboats: Sailing Through the Sixties (Great Lakes Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (834 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814331750 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Peter H. Cooke said Life aboard eight Greatlakes Steamboats in the 1960's. I bought this book expecting it to be mostly about the eight steamboats but found it to be several stories in one.The typical Great Lakes book focuses on the boats (ships if they were on saltwater) or things like storms on the lakes etc. This book focuses on the crew, their personalities, eccentricities, their labor (working in the kitchen on a tour boat, painting, scraping, hosing off the decks of freighters, loading and unloading), their idle time on and off the boat (drinking, exploring the ports, trying to fin. A Memoir about coming of age in the 60's This book reads as a memoir. Anyone who came of age during the sixties, relates to the uncertainty of that period or would like to learn more will enjoy this adventure.The author pulls you into his volatile world, as the youngest child in a family of eight he is as confused and free as the time he is growing up in. He seeks to escape the political and economic turmoil in Detroit, Michigan and hops aboard a freighter.He chronicles the adventures he has both on-shore and off-shore and in the end it is the odd charac. "A personal history." according to Vincent R. Pasquantonio. These are the singular tales of one man's experiences on various and very varied Great Lakes vessels during the waning days of their deployment on the Lakes.
. During that period, he helped initiate several educational programs including the Great Lakes Heritage Program, the Michigan 4H Great Lakes Natural Resources Camp and the Great Lakes Education Program. Peace Corps in Nepal, Patrick Livingston began a twenty-five year career as an agent with Michigan State University Extension and M
Both maritime and Great Lakes enthusiasts will enjoy this voyage back to the early years of the Great Lakes shipping industry. While the city of Detroit burned in 1967, Livingston served milkshakes to passengers on the South American of the Georgian Bay Lines. From the Publisher In the 1960s, an era of widespread social turbulence, the shipping industry in the Great Lakes was on the threshold of immense change. Told from the perspective of a writer who sails rather than a sailor who writes, the tales are spiced with connections between shore and sea. In subsequent years, he dropped out of school to catch the mailboat to his ships as they transited the Detroit River. With lively dialogue, Livingston details his experiences up to his signing off the Champlain in 1972
Both maritime and Great Lakes enthusiasts will enjoy this voyage back to the early years of the Great Lakes shipping industry.. In subsequent years, he dropped out of school to catch the mailboat to his ships as they transited the Detroit River. While the city of Detroit burned in 1967, Livingston served milkshakes to passengers on the South American of the Georgian Bay Lines. ships and even more so on the men who sailed them.Eight Steamboats chronicles Patrick Livingston's adventures on eight shipping vessels-only one of which survives-during the 1960s. Developed during World War II, the U.S. Later, Livingston sailed with the notorious George "Bughouse" Schultz on the ill-starred tanker Mercury. To meet the increasing need, there was talk of expanding the size of the Soo Locks to accommodate larger vessels and even of lengthening the shipping season. In the 1960s, an era of widespread social turbulence, the shipping industry in the Great Lakes was on the threshold of immense change. When financial need forced him to forgo a trip to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, he sailed Lake Michigan instead. The demand for iron ore skyrocketed as baby boomers matured into the age of auto and appliance buying. merchant fleet faced threatening co