 The Christmas
Tree Ship
by Rochelle Pennington
ROCHELLE PENNINGTON
is an award-winning, freelance author and
newspaper columnist from Wisconsin. Rochelle is co-author of
Highlighted in Yellow and author of The Golden
Formula, Reach for the Stars, The Endurance, An Old-Fashioned Christmas,
The Christmas Tree Ship and The Historic Christmas Tree Ship.
(Pennington’s research on the Christmas Tree Ship was featured on
several television stations including FOX-TV and The Weather Channel’s
Storm Stories holiday special.)
Pennington has
authored two books on the schooner which delivered Christmas trees to
the citizens of Chicago each holiday season before it was caught in “The
Great Storm of 1912” and subsequently went to the bottom of Lake
Michigan fully loaded with trees. (To this day, the ship is still loaded
with its trees and is a popular Great Lakes dive site. Pennington will
share present-day, underwater photographs of Christmas trees still
visible in the ship’s hold.)
"It is a story
that exemplifies the best of humanity," said Pennington. "At its heart
we find courage, love, generosity, heroism and the importance of family
and tradition. The moment I first heard the story of the Christmas Tree
Ship, I understood why it had endeared itself to so many people over the
years and was still being shared a century later."
"The ship's
final voyage was not to the bottom of the lake," added Pennington, "but
into the pages of history." |
Pennington is
available for lectures and slide shows. She is a frequent speaker at
schools, libraries, museums, historical societies, churches and civic
organizations.
The Christmas
Tree Ship
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