[Michlib-l] In Person Program - Making Waves: Michigan's Boat Building Industry - Monday, June 27 @ 7 p.m.

[Alexis Shirk]

Join us at Commerce Twp. Community Library for a presentation on boat
building. Michigan will always be known as the automobile capital of the
world, but the Great Lakes State boasts a similarly rich heritage in the
development of boat building in America. By the late nineteenth century,
Michigan had emerged as the industry’s hub, drawing together the most
talented designers, builders, and engine makers to produce some of the
fastest and most innovative boats ever created. Within decades, gifted
Michigan entrepreneurs like Christopher Columbus Smith, John L. Hacker, and
Gar Wood had established some of the nation’s top boat brands and brought
the prospect of boat ownership within reach for American consumers from all
ranges of income. More than just revolutionizing recreational boating,
Michigan boat builders also left their mark on history—from developing the
speedy runabouts favored by illicit rum-runners during the Prohibition era
to creating the landing craft that carried Allied forces to shores in
Europe and the Pacific in WWII. In this presentation, based on his book of
the same name, Scott M. Peters explores this intriguing story of people,
processes, and products—of an industry that evolved in Michigan but would
change boating across the world.
Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/commboat

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Alexis Shirk
Adult Services Librarian
Commerce Twp. Community Library
Phone: 248-669-8108 x121

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