
Dig into the historical society’s ‘shipwreck files’ and uncover a treasure trove of information. By Betty Driscoll, Oceana County Historical and Genealogical Society. It happened in fog so thick that land lubbers couldn’t see the nearly 600-foot-long ships as they passed near the Straits of Mackinac. Loaded with calcite or ore, their May 7, 1965 voyage was just another delivery,…