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Decade of the Pasty Cam on this day ^{Printed on Recycled Internet}

In which two years did dogs show up on this day's Pasty Cam?

2004 and 2007

Good, especially Icy edge of Superior + Whitefish Falls.

Icy Edge is interesting, like a scene from an animated movie.

Can anyone tell me what time the Santa train runs in Lake
Linden this Sat?

Santa Train
FROM: Houghton County Historical Museum
12/04/10
In: Lake Linden
Come enjoy the afternoon for the start of the Holidays from 3:00pm - 7:00pm. For more information contact (906) 296-4121.

Like the City of Bangor in today's Day in History, but 71 years earlier in 1855, another vessel hit the rocks on the Keweenaw the night of November 30. Captain Daniel Beaser had charge of the schooner Seaman on an emergency mission from Ontonagon to Copper Harbor to bring back that town's and the surrounding mine's winter supplies which had been abandoned there due to a brutal late November storm. Other vessels which were supposed to deliver these supplies all the way to Ontonagon, instead dropped them off at Copper Harbor and headed back down the lake, leaving Ontonagon in a potentially critical situation for the upcoming winter. The Seaman out of Cleveland, then under the command of a Captain Andrews, was still tied up in the harbor at Ontonagon. The concerned citizens of Ontonagon tried to hire Andrews to sail her to Copper Harbor to retrieve the village's badly needed supplies. The captain flatly refused to take the vessel out on the lake any more that season. In desperation some of the town's business leader pooled their resources to buy the ship from her captain and gave command to local resident, and former seafarer, Daniel Beaser. Beaser sailed the ship out of Ontonagon on the night of November 30, while Andrews headed back home to Cleveland, overland through the deep snow. Ironically, that very same night Copper Harbor lighthouse keeper Beedon decided to turn out the lights for the season, thinking navigation was surely closed for the season. As the Seaman attempted to make entry into Copper Harbor shortly after midnight, with no lights to guide her, she struck the rocks hard. There she remained iced in until the following spring when she was able to be lifted off. It musst have been a tough winter for the people of Ontonagon for whom the most of the supplies were unable to be delivered - despite their efforts to even have a winter road built to Copper Harbor. But survive they did. Beaser went on to commanded the Seaman for a number of seasons thereafter, hauling mostly copper from Minesota and other Ontonagon County mines to the lower lakes.

Doug, that was a great bit of history. Thank you!

For those of you that objected to my post yesterday, regarding losing our loved ones. I apologize but I feel that you didn't understand my post.
I was not bummed by Pasty Cam's end of the month tribute to the deceased, which I think is a great tribute to our lost loved ones. I was depressed over being reminded.
Sorry if I offended anyone. Didn't mean to.

This time last year, we moved up here in a snowstorm. Soooo, what is out there now, is not bad at all. ;O)

If anyone is interested in buying a renovated church, heres' a very very nice one in Southern Wisconsin. If I had the bucks. I would buy it in a second
http://www.cynthiaweston.com/

Hollidays thank you

Lots of nice wintery pictures in this group.

Love the Whitefish picture and Joyce sure is a diehard Yooper out there on Superior's shores with man's best friend. Nice job!