A Lighthouse Keeper’s 1920s Christmas at Grand Traverse Lighthouse
A look back at one family’s magical Christmas spent as keepers of the Grand Traverse Lighthouse on the Leelanau Peninsula.
A look back at one family’s magical Christmas spent as keepers of the Grand Traverse Lighthouse on the Leelanau Peninsula.
With a load of fragrant evergreens from Michigan’s Northwoods, 
the legendary schooner Rouse Simmons, captained by Herman Schuenemann, carried the spirit of Christmas—and an 
example of unusual courage—to turn-of-the-century Chicago. 
Then one stormy year the Christmas ship never came home.