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Schooner in the Sand:

Things to Do

• Look in newspapers for information about shipping and travel on the Great Lakes today.
• Visit "Life Along the Manitou Passage: The Age of Schooners" to learn more about schooners on the Great Lakes
• Learn more about the schooner Amistad and its story for Black History Month, February. Three resources are
• Freedom's Sons: The True Story of the Amistad Mutiny by Suzanne Jurmain. NY: Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1998. Ages 9-12.
• Amistad America