Silver Water Sailing

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Some Lake Ontario resources At some point I'll post my notes for the bus trip. Also below this list are some selections from my books including the St Peter shipwreck a short biography of Captain Throop and one bootlegger's tale. My various Lake Ontario books are available from Pioneer Library member branches and also can be purchased on line at the chimney bluff artisans co-op store or directly from the author Susan Peterson Gateley 315 594 1906. Only the posted works by Susan Gateley may be printed copied and used for educational purposes in the classroom - please be reasonable and do NOT use anything by other authors cited here without their permission! Here's the “ad” For more information on Lake Ontario and Little Sodus Bay maritime heritage sailing trips including a new 08 “voyage through time” trip and/or my books here's a link to my home page for Silver Waters A good general history of Great Lakes commerce and shipping is Mansfield's History of the Great Lakes, posted at http://www.hhpl.on.ca/GreatLakes/Documents/HGL/ Mansfields Website topics rum running/smuggling Troubled Waters article by Katherine McIntyre Peters on smuggling along the St Lawrence on the web at http://www.govexec.com/features/0105-01/0105-01s2.htm Troubled Waters published in 2005 details present day trade in illegal aliens, cigarettes etc. notes that since 9-11 the Mohawks shut the immigrant trade down, so one assumes illegal immigrants now find their way across the lake and river via other routes... Whiskey and Ice by C. W. Hunt book detailing the rum running trade on Lake Ontario, one of several on rum runners by Canadian writer Hunt but this one is still in print. Features the story of Ben Kerr, perhaps the lake's most illustrious run runner For a small time rum runner's recollections see my “Ariel's World” pages 36-38 (posted below) a work of fiction just published this year by an Oswego author that includes Prohibition era action along with a scuba based a search for a 18th century warship wreck on the lake is Art Tirrell's “The Secret Ever Keeps” find it at Rivers End Books in Oswego. underground railroad Marvin Rapp “Canal Water and Whiskey” pg 113 to 123 a “fictionalized” account of Throop's part in the freedom path that took the slaves to Canada to “shake the lion's paw” H. Lee White Marine Museum in Oswego also has an exhibit on the underground railroad and Oswego's role, home to Gerritt Smith http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/steward/steward.html Twenty-two Years a Slave Forty Years a freeman by Austin Steward 1793 to 1860 An interesting account of a slave who ran away to become a free man. He was brought to Sodus Bay by his owner, then relocated to Bath. Much of the action, though takes place in Wayne County or nearby. Also interesting information on a Canadian settlement of blacks north of London Ontario and their inability to get clear title to their land. ( The author ended up returning to Rochester).The book was published in Rochester in the 1850s and was posted on the net by U of N.C. Here's the disclaimer. It's really interesting reading!! This work is the property of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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