The schedule of events:
• 6:00 p.m. – Guests will light lanterns during a ceremony at the Fitzgerald anchor.
• 6:30 p.m. – Lee Murdock will perform as guests enter the museum.
• 7:05 p.m. -- A wreath will be taken to the edge of the Detroit River.
• 7:10 p.m. – The wreath honoring those lost on the Great Lakes will be laid in the river with a U.S. Coast Guard vessel and the Detroit Fire Department’s Curtis Randolph present and bells will toll inside the Museum in honor of lost sailors.
• 7:15 p.m. – Presentation by guest speaker, maritime historian John Polacsek
• 7:45 p.m. -- Reverend Richard Ingalls, Jr. of the Mariners’ Church will lead a prayer service.
• 7:50 p.m. – Lee Murdock will perform his rendition of “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”

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Lost Mariners Remembrance
On Saturday November 10 the Marine Auxiliary Group will host a remembrance for sailors lost on the Great Lakes at the Dossin Museum in Detroit. This program will be available online through a webcast.

To attend this event live in person purchase tickets at this link

Lamp lighting ceremony. Chris Winters

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As a member of the MAG you will have access to special events and programs at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum dealing with Great Lakes and regional maritime history.

Available exclusively to MAG members is a subscription to the highly acclaimed quarterly publication, Telescope. The Telescope contains in-depth articles about maritime history as well as Great Lakes and seaway news.

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