ICEBOUND!
The Adventures of Young George Sheldon
and the SS Michigan
Text and Illustrations Valerie Olson
Published by In-Depth Editions - 2008
A regional, historical fiction, young readers book
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Free Shipping and signed by the author

                                                 $17.95

Buckets and Belts:
Evolution of the Great Lakes Self-Unloader
By William Lafferty and Valerie van Heest - 2009
Published by In-Depth Editions - 2009

"Every historian and boat-nerd is going to want it. It’s the first thorough documentation of the revolution in maritime transport initiated by Great Lakes self-unloaders, and it’s an appealing pictorial record as well. Some of us watched it happen. Now Lafferty and Van Heest have captured it all in this great book!"

- C. Patrick Labadie,
Great Lakes Maritime Historian

                                                 $24.95  + $3.25 s+h  in  Cont. U.S.

The Lady Elgin
A Report on the 1992  Reconnaissance Survey  
Valerie Olson/UASC- 1993

$19.95

 

The Wells Burt
A Report on the Survey of a Virgin Shipwreck  
Valerie Olson/UASC- 1991

$19.95

 

 

The Goshawk Report
A Reconnaissance Survey of the Great Lake's Oldest Schooner
Valerie Olson/UASC - 1993

$19.95

 

 

ARTICLES  - BOLD TITLES LINKED TO PDF

A Well-Kept Secret…Until Now - First Dives on the Carl D. Bradley - Wreck Diver Mag. July 2009

"Icebound Found" - Wreck Diving Magazine - TBD

Mystery Solved- The Minch/Davock Controversy - Michigan History Magazine TBD

Shipwrecked!" - Lakeland Boating June 2009

"The Hennepin- The World's First Self-Unloader - Beneath the Inland Seas (a book)
                                                                                        by John Halsey  July 2007

"Buckets and Belts - Seaway Review - Special 50th Anniversary Seaway Issue Jan 2009
                                                                                       
"Rogers City Remembers" - MI History Magazine - Jan/Feb 2009

"Seek and Ye Shall Find-Discovery of 228 year old HMS Ontario"- Wreck Diving Magazine                                                                                                  Summer 2008

"Whispers From the Past- "Michigan's U/W Preserves" - MI History Magazine - June 2008

"Mystery Solved!" - Great Laker  July-Sept. 08  2008

"Traveling Back in Time at the Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse" - Great Laker  2July-Sept. 08

"Navigating Through History- New York's Seaway Trail" - Great Laker April-June  2008

"A Hard Death- The Sinking of the Hennepin" - Soundings WMHS Fall WInter 2007

"Telling the Whole Truth" - Michigan History Magazine, Jan-Feb 2008

" The Hennepin" - Great Laker - Seaway Review - July-Sept 2007

She Died a Hard Death" - Wreck Diving Magazine, Summer 2007

"The Shipwreck Hennepin-World's First Self-Unloader" - Lakeland Boating March 2008

"The Hennepin" - Milwaukee Historical Society Newsletter Summer 07

"Mining History at Forty Fathoms" - Pit and Quarry Magazine June 2007

"A 'Deep' Look into the Origins of the Bulk Cargo Industry" - Dry Cargo International June 07

"She Died a Hard Death" - Inland Seas Magazine, Spring 2007

"Chasing Shadows- the Search for Flight 2501" - Airways Magazine, May 2007

"Chasing Shadows- The Search for Flight 2501" - Historical Society of Michigan Chronicle,
                                                                        Winter 2007

 "She Died a Hard Death - The Hennepin" - The Joint Archives of Holland, Feb. 2007

"Icebound Found!" - Michigan History Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2007

"Half a Ship, Twice the Mystery" - The Joint Archives of Holland, April 2006

"The Disappearance of Flight 2501" - The Joint Archives of Holland, April 2005

"Icebound- the Ordeal of the SS Michigan" - The Joint Archives of Holland, April 2004

"Searching for a Steamer" - Michigan History Magazine, July/August 2003

Installing the Plaque on the Tacoma:   Photo by Chet Childs