Presentation to focus on shipwrecks
“Written in Light: Stories and Photographs from 30 Years on America’s Inland Seas” will be the topic for a Port Washington Historical Society presentation Tuesday, March 12.
The presentation will be by Christopher Winters, a freelance photojournalist and former staff photographer at the Discovery World Museum.
Winters, who was smitten at the age of 9 with the lore of lakeboats and the historic wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, is a lifelong student of Great Lakes maritime history and culture.
A diver since 1993, and four-term board member of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, Winters was the 2017 Great Lakes Historian of the Year from the Marine Historical Society of Detroit.
His award-winning books are “Centennial,” chronicling life aboard the century-old lake steamer St. Mary’s Challenger, “The Legend Lives On,” a definitive commemoration of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and “Schooner Days,” the official history of Wisconsin’s flagship the S/V Denis Sullivan. In 2018 “Schooner Days” won the gold “IPPY” award for regional non-fiction.
The presentation will be at the Port Washington State Bank Community Room, 218 E. Washington St.
There is no fee for Historical Society members, but registration is required and may be done online at https://www.pwhistory.org/events
There is a $10 fee for nonmembers.
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