Lake Michigan
About Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume and depth after Lake Superior and the third-largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron. To the east, its basin is conjoined with that of Lake Huron through the wide and deep Straits of Mackinac, giving it the same surface elevation as its eastern counterpart; hydrologically, the two bodies are a single lake that is, by area, the largest freshwater lake in the world.
On the show — 15 mentions total
There was a particularly famous ship called the Rouse Simmons, and it used to carry thousands of trees. In 1912 it had this very famous accident and it sank — it was carrying 5,500 trees from Michigan to Chicago across Lake Michigan, and it was captained by this guy called Sherman, who was so famous as a Christmas tree importer that people called him Captain Santa.
from No Such Thing As A Courgette In Your Ear, 2017-05-26 at 00:21:45 · read transcript
Other times Lake Michigan came up
That's so cool. Captain Santa used to do this, and then there was this awful, there's this storm that sunk the whole ship, and it killed everyone on board, and all the trees sunk. For years afterwards, fishermen on Lake Michigan would catch huge Christmas trees. Catch? For what I quite like is, first of all, his business partner, who would always wait in Chicago with him, was called Claude Winters.
166: No Such Thing As A Courgette In Your Ear, 2017-05-26 · listen
He was mechanic for had lots of random jobs in 1927 his daughter died of polio and he went into a very deep depression for about a year he was on the brink of suicide he went to the edge of Lake Michigan I think it was and supposedly had an out-of-body experience and came out of it, realizing, okay, I've got to devote the rest of my life to helping to the advance of humanity.
No Such Thing As A Donkumentary, 2015-10-23 · listen
No, obviously not. Otherwise, I wouldn't have gone sandbbing. This happened in 2013. It's in a place called Mount Baldi, which is on the side of Lake Michigan in Indiana, and it's a huge sand dune. It's 126 feet tall, and it swallowed a boy. I'm just going to say right now, just so everyone's not traumatized, the boy ended up okay. He was running up to the top of the sand dune with his mate and his dad to then run down it or do James' trick.
No Such Thing As Mambo No. 2, 2020-06-05 · listen
Have you read this extraordinary story? No, obviously not. Otherwise I wouldn't have gone sandboarding. This happened in 2013. It's in a place called Mount Baldy, which is on the side of Lake Michigan in Indiana. It's a huge sand dune. It's 126 feet tall and it swallowed a boy. I am just going to say right now, just so everyone's not traumatized, the boy ended up OK.
324: No Such Thing As Mambo No. 2, 2020-06-05 · listen
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