Thursday and Friday at the museum were beautiful days. It was chilly past the lighthouse on the catwalk on Thursday, everyone on the tours wore hats and gloves to keep warm.
During those two days we had visitors from the U.K., Texas, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Lansing MI, and Marquette. It was fun to talk to everyone and find out why they chose to visit Marquette and the Museum. There were actually two different groups from the Lansing area. One was a mother and daughter from south of Lansing on their anual trip for their birthdays, and the other was a couple. The women is a professor of nursing at Michigan State University!
We received even more books, maps and puzzles for the museums gift shop. Friday we also finished adding some text one of the Fresnel Lenses.
My project that I started this week is making an outline for giving a guided museum tour. I have seven pages typed so far! We do not normally give guided tours. They are only for planned visiting school groups or senior groups. I have made it to half way through the Henry B. Smith portion of the museum. I am enjoying doing this because I get to take the time to slowly read through all of the text for the museum. So far I have learned a lot about Lake Superior, the iron ore mines, birch bark canoes, standard diving apparatus, Marquette shipwrecks, and Lake Superior shipwrecks. Next week I will continue on to the Life Saving Service, the Coast Guard, Edmund Fitzgerald, Fresnel Lenses, breeches buoy life saving technique, line-throwing guns, yachting and passenger vessels, commercial fishing, and the Cleveland Cliff company.
[I enjoyed being able to take pictures of the lighthouse without fog!]
[A view of the Upper Harbor]
[A view of the Lower Harbor Ore Dock and the Coast Guard Station]
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