Lives and Legends of the Christmas Tree Ships Jeffrey A. Winters Since 2008 the Offbeat Oregon

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Lives and Legends of the Christmas Tree Ships Jeffrey A. Winters Since 2008 the Offbeat OregonLives and Legends of the Christmas Tree Ships brings the maritime heritage of the Great Lakes to life, using the tragic story of the schooner Rouse Simmons as a porthole into the robust but often forgotten communities that thrived along Lake Michigan from the Civil War to World War I. Memorialized in songs, poems, fiction, and even a musical, the infamous ship that went down in a Thanksgiving storm while delivering Christmas trees to Chicago has long