2021 Speaker Series on Local History: Lake Erie Shipwreck Enthusiast Ashley Babbitt
This online event is the first of our 2021 Speaker Series on Local History: join Lake Erie Shipwreck Enthusiast Ashley Babbitt as she hosts the presentation from "The Scalliwag Room" at the Babbitt Homestead where she still delve into the subject with the geography, weather, statistics, and lore of Lake Erie, and what makes the Quadrangle a hot bed for shipwrecks. Jeremy Bannister from Erie Divers World will also be contributing photos and video from his dives of a few notable shipwrecks in the Quadrangle. Various methods of preservation will be presented from the discovery and documentation of this living history to how it translates as time marches on. The unidentified barge in the Event Cover photo rests about 145 feet below the surface of Lake Erie: Photo credit belongs to V. Dekina.
