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11-07-2025
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Shipwreck with Door County ties that was lost for 131 years is a national historic place
The Lake Michigan wreck of a cargo ship with close ties to Door County and Wisconsin that remained lost for 131 years until it was found in 2024 after a deliberate search is now on the National Register of Historic Places. The remains of the Margaret A. Muir, which lie in about 50 feet of water a few miles off the shore of Algoma, was listed on the national historic register June 23, according to its Wisconsin Historical Society listing. The vessel joined the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places four months prior, on Feb. 22. The Muir was a 130-foot-long, three-masted cargo schooner built in Manitowoc that sank about 4 miles out of Algoma in 1893, while it was co-owned and captained by a former Door County resident. According to its listing on the Wisconsin Shipwrecks website, the Muir was built in 1872 by the Hanson & Scove shipyard in Manitowoc for Capt. David Muir. It subsequently was home ported in Chicago, carrying primarily grain but also coal, ores and other goods in its 21-year career spanning all five of the Great Lakes. The Muir sustained occasional damages during its duty, mostly caused by weather and towing issues that appear typical for wooden Great Lakes cargo ships of the day. One noteworthy reported incident happened in Buffalo in October 1890 when another vessel left the port at full speed, the shipwrecks site says, and cut the lines of the Muir and another cargo ship while they were docked, sending the latter two adrift and almost colliding with each other. In 1893, former Door County resident Capt. David Clow, age 71 at the time, bought co-ownership of the vessel with Capt. Muir. Clow and his wife, Sarah, lived on Chambers Island from 1853 to 1872. He was a veteran of the shipping industry on the lakes, surviving a number of wrecks, and he and his wife started a small shipyard on the island, cutting trees for wood and building ships by hand. Clow was taking the Muir from Bay City, Michigan, to South Chicago with a cargo of bulk salt on Sept. 30, 1893, when at 5 a.m. the ship was hit by a 50 mph gale in Lake Michigan. It reportedly was weathering the storm well until about 7:30 a.m., when the waves grew dramatically larger and it fell into the trough between the waves, leading to massive amounts of water washing over its decks. Clow made for the nearest port, which was Ahnapee, now Algoma. The Muir was within a few miles of the port when at about 8 a.m. Clow went below deck and found several feet of water in the hold. He immediately ordered the crew to abandon ship, but almost at once the ship lurched and plunged into the water. The small yawl used as a lifeboat immediately filled with water after it was launched, but Clow and his crew of six managed to pilot the boat through 15-foot waves, with almost constant bailing of water from the yawl to keep it afloat, to land on the beach. All of the crew survived, but Clow lost his dog, the ship's mascot, and most of the crew lost all their possessions. Over the next several months, the Muir was broken up by wind and wave action and declared a hazard to navigation. In 1894, it was dynamited to flatten the hazard. In the aftermath of this and the other wrecks he survived, Clow said he was quitting the maritime shipping business. As the decades passed, the location of the 1893 wreck became unknown, until it was found May 12, 2024, by three maritime historians with the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association: president Brendon Baillod, vice-president Kevin Cullen and director Robert Jaeck. Using a database Baillod began compiling about 20 years ago of missing shipwrecks in Wisconsin waters, he was able to create a grid of about 2 by 2 miles where the remains of the Muir most likely would be, and the three historians deliberately searched for the Muir for a couple years before locating it with high-resolution side-scanning sonar. In a 2024 interview with the Advocate, Baillod said the Muir was a prime candidate for discovery because consistent reports were made of its approximate location when it sank, and those reports indicated it was close to land and therefore likely in shallower water than if it was in the middle of the lake. Baillod also said the Muir is important to Wisconsin maritime buffs because of its connections to the state. And while the hull is broken up, all of its deck gear is still on hand and intact, including two giant anchors, hand pumps, bow windlass and capstan. Also, the sides of its hull fell outward when it wrecked, so it's easier to study the unusual stepped sternpost construction of its its inner architecture. The historic place listing currently says the site already has yielded a great deal of knowledge about maritime archaeology of the period with more expected to come. Plus, Baillod added, the Muir lies in relatively shallow water and so is more easily accessible than many other Lake Michigan wrecks, and the remains are more visible than some others because they have very few mussels covering them. Following the Muir's discovery, a team of divers collected thousands of high-resolution images of the wreck, and Zach Whitrock used those images to create a 3D photogrammetry model of the wreck site that people can explore virtually on the Sketchfab website, including with a virtual reality headset. The discovery of the Muir came less than a year after Baillod and Jaeck used similar mapping and deliberate search techniques to find the wreck of the Trinidad, a 140-foot cargo schooner that sank in 270 feet of Lake Michigan water about 9.5 miles off Algoma in May of 1881. The unusually intact and preserved remains of the Trinidad were named to the Wisconsin and National Registers of Historic Places in 2024. State and federal laws protect the wreck of the Margaret A. Muir. Divers may not remove artifacts or structure when visiting this site. Removing, defacing, displacing or destroying artifacts or sites is a crime. For more information on the State and National Register programs in Wisconsin, visit For more on the Muir and other Wisconsin shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, visit Contact Christopher Clough at 920-562-8900 or cclough@ MORE: Here's what to know about Door County's 2025 pick-your-own cherry season MORE: Door County museum gets four times its previous storage space by getting a new building FOR MORE DOOR COUNTY NEWS: Check out our website This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: Long-lost shipwreck with Door County ties is a national historic place
Politico
13-06-2025
- Politics
- Politico
Readout royale
Presented by The Canadian Medical Association Send tips | Subscribe here | Email Canada Playbook | Follow Politico Canada Thanks for reading Canada Playbook. In today's edition: → How the most Canadian part of the U.S. is responding to Trump's trade war. → Just in time for the G7, BRIAN CLOW on the art of the 'readout.' → On the agenda in Kananaskis: wildfires. FIRST IN CANADA PLAYBOOK 'IT COULD GET UGLY' — Few swaths of Trump Country are more at risk from the U.S. president's belligerent isolationism than Minnesota's Northwest Angle, a conservative community surrounded by Canada and water that's only part of the United States due to an 18th century surveying error. POLITICO's CORBIN HIAR paid a visit to the 150-person U.S. exclave to find out how it's dealing with Trump's 51st-state musings and punishing tariffs, as border crossings get ever more hostile. As Hiar reports for POLITICO Magazine, if the president further provokes his Canadian hosts at the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, few places in the U.S. are more at risk from the potential diplomatic fallout than the inherently isolated Northwest Angle. Trade war READOUTS 101 — Prepare for an onslaught of high-stakes world leader bilats in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies — and the carefully crafted summaries that offer each side's take on the one-on-one conversations. BRIAN CLOW, a former top Canada-U.S. adviser to then-Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU, considers them an art form. Go-to senior public servants pride themselves on their artistry, Clow said, as they send their drafts to political aides for review. Most of the time, readouts — as they're known in the jargon — aren't labor intensive and don't draw much attention. Some of the time, they require more TLC. — The obvious exception: The Trump White House. Clow said the Prime Minister's Office spent a lot of time in the drafting process. 'Sometimes we would wait to see exactly how the White House described a conversation before we would issue ours, just to ensure there was some alignment,' he said. — The process: In Clow's time, most drafts emerged from the Privy Council Office's foreign and defense policy team. The PMO would either tinker or do a massive rewrite. In the raucous early days of Trump 2.0, Clow sometimes held the pen himself. On Feb. 3, when Trudeau used X to announce a mutual 30-day tariff pause, Clow and a small crew wrote the post 'very quickly' after the two leaders hung up — and then ran it by Trump comms director STEVEN CHEUNG. 'It's not the norm, but sometimes you do work with the other country, or at least check language with them if you're going to speak for them in your readout,' he said. — Who's watching: Journalists mine readouts for details. Diplomats scan them for tone. Stakeholders pore over them for any mention, whether positive or negative. Then there's the other country. 'You don't want to offend them. You don't want to cause some issue or cause them to disagree with your readout,' Clow said. 'But it's also an opportunity to emphasize certain messages to the other country.' — Bland alert: Clow acknowledged the vagueness of many readouts, but stands by the opacity: 'There are times where it's just not in the national interest to put out in our own communication some of the things that are said, particularly from Donald Trump.' Exhibit A: That time Trump brought up an obscure 1908 border treaty. 'We didn't want to amplify nonsensical, absurd threats from the U.S. president,' Clow said. — Word to watch for: Constructive. Every word is intentional. 'We would put that word in only if the call was constructive and the tone was positive,' Clow said. 'Often phone calls with Donald Trump were not constructive, and therefore we would not say that.' — Speed dating, Kananaskis-style: A government official briefing Canadian reporters Thursday had high hopes for Carney's dance card. 'Scheduling will be challenging, but the intent will be for the prime minister to meet with as many of the leaders as possible, and we certainly hope all of them,' the official said. Watch for potential readouts following bilats with Trump and the rest of the G7 leaders, Mexican President CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM, South African President CYRIL RAMAPHOSA, Indian Prime Minister NARENDRA MODI, Ukrainian President and VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY — and U.K. Prime Minister KEIR STARMER, who's stopping in Ottawa ahead of the summit. — In related reading: A Globe team examines the global challenges weighing on the G7 agenda. 'This year's summit will draw together leaders as a group. But the greatest priority for most of those leaders is one man alone.' Want more POLITICO? Download our mobile app to save stories, get notifications on U.S.-Canada relations, and more. In iOS or Android . THE ROOMS THAT MATTER — At 2 p.m., Prime Minister MARK CARNEY will chair a meeting of the National Security Council in West Block. — U.K. Prime Minister KEIR STARMER will meet the PM in Ottawa on Saturday, en route to their first G7 leaders' summit in Kananaskis. For your radar FIRE WEATHER — Canada is battling one of the worst wildfire seasons in its history. More than 200 wildfires are currently burning, including in Alberta where world leaders will touch down on Sunday. And while skies over Kananaskis are expected to be clear of smoke, the fires are on the G7's agenda. — Taking the reins: Prime Minister MARK CARNEY will present G7 leaders with a 'Kananaskis Wildfire Charter' dealing with fire mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. All G7 partners, including the U.S., are expected to pledge their support. 'Given that wildfires are a global responsibility, given that they affect the other G7 nations equally, it's sensible for us to work with them and in coordination with them to develop an international agreement with respect to how wildfires are dealt with,' Emergency Management Minister ELEANOR OLSZEWSKI told reporters Thursday. — You've got a friend: The G7 nations already share firefighting equipment and other resources. In January, firefighters from Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec helped as wildfires tore through the Los Angeles area. — How bad can it be?: Approximately 8.65 million acres has burned this year. Canada is on track for its second-worst wildfire season on record, just behind 2023. Firefighters and equipment in every jurisdiction in Canada is currently being used, a Public Safety official said during a briefing with reporters on Thursday. Canada has enlisted the help of some 500 firefighters from Australia, the U.S. and requested another 100 from Costa Rica. — Evacuation plan: There are no fires near the summit venue, but CP reports that RCMP have a plan in case Mother Nature crashes their party. WHO'S UP, WHO'S DOWN Up: Invites to Alberta. Leaders from Australia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Korea, South Africa and Ukraine are heading to the G7 as guests. DYLAN ROBERTSON of The Canadian Press took a closer look at the invite list. Down: The U.S. in a new global popularity survey that includes a 22 percentage-point slide in Canada from last year, according to the Pew Research Center. MORNING MUST-CLICKS — Top of POLITICO: Israel launches strike against Iran. And from POLITICO's ELENA GIORDANO: World leaders urge restraint. — Defense Minister DAVID MCGUINTY is on the latest 'It's Political' pod with ALTHIA RAJ. — ERICA IFILL writes in The Guardian on Bill C-2: 'a MAGA-inspired border bill.' — The Globe editorial board slapped an advisory on Bill C-4: 'The government tried to pull a fast one by sticking a set of bespoke privacy protection rules for federal parties at the bottom of a bill dealing with the cost of living.' — The Narwhal's CARL MEYER notes that Bill C-5 and other laws to fast-track development risk eroding trust of First Nations. — Liberal MP JUDY SGRO spoke with the Globe's MARIE WOOLF after her drive to gain jailed Hong Kong publisher JIMMY LAI honorary Canadian citizenship 'went off the rails.' — JIM BRONSKILL of The Canadian Press landed an interview with Canada's fentanyl czar, KEVIN BROSSEAU. — Over on Maclean's, KENT FELLOWS of the University of Calgary suggests 'modernizing ports, fixing key choke points and planning future corridors with intent' are achievable goals for the short term on the way to fixing Canada's transportation infrastructure. PLAYBOOKERS Birthdays: HBD to JEAN-YVES DUCLOS (60!); Investigative Journalism Foundation CEO ZANE SCHWARTZ; TONY BURMAN, former head of Al Jazeera English and CBC News; as well as former Bloc Québécois MP JEAN-YVES LAFOREST and former Alberta MLA ROB ANDERSON. Celebrating Saturday: Podcaster and strategist DAVID HERLE; Montreal Mayor VALÉRIE PLANTE; former Ontario MPP JOHN YAKABUSKI; New Brunswick MLA FRANCINE LANDRY; former MPs HOANG MAI, DOUG ROWLAND (85!) and MARK ASSAD (85!). On Sunday: Liberal MP NATE ERSKINE-SMITH. Spotted: KING CHARLES III, approving a new Great Seal of Canada. Noted: Jobs Minister PATTY HAJDU has approved Canada Post's request that its final offer on a new collective agreement go to a vote of union members. The company applauded the move. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers very much did not: 'We will not stand by as the Government and Canada Post work together to try to undermine our hard-fought rights, gut our collective agreements and re-write them on their own terms. Postal workers know how to fight back. We've done it before, and we're ready to do it again. Movers and shakers: Sen. LARRY SMITH joins the Senate Conservative caucus. Lobby watch: Energy Connections Canada, an association of pipeline companies, logged a May 5 meeting with Prime Minister MARK CARNEY. — The Canadian Steel Producers Association posted June meetings with Cabmins FRANÇOIS-PHILIPPE CHAMPAGNE, DOMINIC LEBLANC, MÉLANIE JOLY, ANITA ANAND, Ambo KIRSTEN HILLMAN, Chief Trade Negotiator AARON FOWLER and Conservative MPs SHELBY KRAMP-NEUMAN and RAQUEL DANCHO. — The Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium posted May 21 meetings with Cabmins Champagne, Joly, Anand, LeBlanc, MANINDER SIDHU, CHRYSTIA FREELAND, JULIE DABRUSIN, SEAN FRASER, GREGOR ROBERTSON and TIM HODGSON. — J.D. Irving logged recent meetings with Hillman, Fowler, Secretary of State for Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions WAYNE LONG and TIM KRUPA from the Prime Minister's Office. Send Playbookers tips to canadaplaybook@ PROZONE Headlines for our Pro subscribers: — GM slow-rolls its all-EV aspirations. — World Bank moves to invest in nuclear again. — Pentagon to review US role in AUKUS submarine pact. — Democratic strategist to become Coinbase's newest adviser. — US to skip Bonn climate talks as world charts path to COP30. TRIVIA Thursday's answer: On June 12, 1991, BORIS YELTSIN was elected as the first president of the Russian Federation. Props to AMY CASTLE, JEFFREY VALOIS, KEVIN BOSCH, RAY DEL BIANCO, NATHAN RUTHERFORD, ROBERT MCDOUGALL, MALCOLM MCKAY, MARCEL MARCOTTE and STEPHEN HAAS. Friday's question: What do LARRY BAGNELL, AUDREY MCLAUGHLIN, ERIK NIELSEN, MARTHA LOUISE BLACK and PAT DUNCAN have in common? For bonus marks, connect your answer to this date in history. Answer to canadaplaybook@ Writing Monday's Playbook from the G7 in Alberta: NICK TAYLOR-VAISEY
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30-05-2025
- Business
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Entrepreneurs flock to Freeport for affordable real estate and business perks
FREEPORT, Ill. (WTVO) — If you visit Freeport in the next month, don't be surprised if you see a few new businesses. The Pretzel City is welcoming several new businesses in the coming weeks. Carmela Jackson celebrated the opening of her Twice As Nice consignments store on Friday. 'It's really a good time for business owners. I do see a lot of businesses opening right now, and I just think it's a really good time. People are supporting small businesses more now than ever,' she said. Freeport is seeing an influx of new business, according to Greater Freeport Partnership business engagement director Bill Clow. 'The fact that we're looking at, I think, six or seven scheduled ribbon cuttings in June. We've had several in the last couple of months already. I think that speaks highly of the business climate,' he said. Clow said affordable real estate and ample opportunity has attracted entrepreneurs from Beloit to Chicago, who want to open shops in Freeport. 'Part of it is one of the things that both the city and the Greater Freeport Partnership have been doing is trying to get the word out about the advantages of Freeport and Stephenson County and, you know, affordable real estate, business friendly climate and trying to get, you know, make it easy for businesses to start,' Clow said. One of the new businesses is Pretzel City Barbershop. Owner Jaime Rivas said he has seen the city's growth firsthand. 'I can tell you, since I moved here four years ago, it's been busier. More people are in Freeport, and businesses will come with time, but they are starting to come back to Freeport. You know, I'm excited to see more people come in, and it's just exciting, you know, to see how far we can get,' he said. Other businesses opening soon include a shoe store, credit union, and auto parts seller. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Chicago Tribune
08-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Naperville News Digest: Will County Forest Preserve District holding two local events; Naper Nights lineup announcement, tix on Record Store Day
Will County Forest Preserve District holding two local events Local events at which residents can check out wildflowers or view a historic farmstead are being held next week by the Forest Preserve District of Will County. From 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 17, residents can take a guided hike to find wildflowers at the Hidden Oaks Nature Center, 419 Trout Farm Road, Bolingbrook. The flowers along the hike include trout lily and Dutchman's breeches, a district news release said. The free hike is open to anyone 10 or older. Register by April 16 at Two days later, the district will offer a tour of the Riverview Farmstead Preserve, located on Book Road, just south of Hassert Boulevard in Naperville. The free tour is led by a naturalist from 10:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 19. It is a chance to explore the Clow family's 19th century farmstead and listen to stories of farm life, the district release said. Open to anyone 12 or older, the tour registration deadline is April 17 at Naper Nights lineup announcement, tix on Record Store Day Naper Settlement will announce its summer Naper Nights concert lineup in a promotional event with five local record stores on Saturday, April 12, which is Record Store Day. The concert series will feature a new lineup of tribute performances and one nationally known band with several hits from the 1970s, officials announced. Concert dates are June 20-21, July 18-19 and Aug. 15-16. To celebrate the national act coming to Naperville, the settlement has partnered with local record stores, including Purple Dog Records in Naperville, to give away free tickets. Other participating record stores are Crooked Arm Vinyl & Tap in Lisle, Kiss the Sky in Batavia and Left 'Round Records and Paul Rose Records & Boutique, both in Plainfield. Each store will have five pairs of tickets to give away. Special Naper Nights giveaway records will be hidden inside the stores near the albums that correspond to the concert lineup, officials said. If the record is found, it can be turned in for two free tickets to one of the shows. To take part in the promotional event, follow Naper Settlement on social media. The settlement will post hints and trivia about the upcoming lineup leading up to Saturday, when tickets will go on sale at 5 p.m. For more information, go to COD to present free OD recognition, Narcan training The College of DuPage will host a free Narcan training program from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in the Health and Science Center on its main campus, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn. Participants can learn how to recognize an opioid overdose and how to administer Narcan, or Naloxone, which is used to reverse an opioid overdose in an emergency, a college news release said. As part of the free session, which is open to anyone 18 or older, participants will receive a free Narcan kit. The training is offered in collaboration with the DuPage County Health Department and the College of DuPage Continuing Education.
