Join the Association for Great Lakes Maritime History for their annual conference. This year it is being held at the National Museum of the Great Lakes. All the activities are open to the public. Please feel free to sign up - a al carte - for the portions you are interested in attending.

Thursday, September 6: at the National Museum of the Great Lakes - 1701 Front Street

5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Welcome Reception and Registration

Friday, September 7: at the National Museum of the Great Lakes - 1701 Front Street

9:00 a.m. Registration
9:30 a.m. Association Business Meeting
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. 2018 Museum Member’s Round Table
3:00 p.m. Guided tour of the Col. James M. Schoonmaker Museum Ship
5:00 p.m. Dinner on Your Own

Saturday, September 8: at the Promedica Steam Plant - 100 Madison Ave.

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration and Welcome
9:00 – 12:00 p.m. History Programs
“Discovery of the Argo: The Great Lakes’ Top Environmental Hazard” by Tom Kowalczk
“The Journey of the Leroy Brooks, Toledo, 1891” by Dan Walsh
“James Fraser Paige and the Rise of the Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company, 1917-1919” by Michael Moir
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. History Program
“Solving the Mystery of the S.S.Lakeland” by Tamara Thomsen
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. 2018 Great Lakes Maritime History Research Roundtable –“The Archives of NW Ohio and SE Michigan”
6:00 p.m. Association for Great Lakes Maritime History’s Annual Dinner and Awards Program
Reception (cash bar) and Dinner at Promedica Steam Plant – 100 Madison Ave in Toledo
Keynote Speaker: Dr. David Bush, “The Role of Lake Erie at the Johnson’s Island Civil War Military Prison: View from the Bottom of a Latrine”

Rooms are available at the Park Inn in Toledo, you can recieve the conference rate of $91, plus taxes and parking through August 6 by using this link: https://www.parkinn.com/toledooh/hotel-deals/toledoaglmh