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Sole Survivor of Shipwreck to Speak in Sturgeon Bay
By Door County Maritime Museum
Mar 29, 2011 - 6:50:00 AM
Dennis Hale, subject of the book "Sole Survivor" and author of the recently released autobiography "Reflections of the Sole Survivor," will be the featured speaker on Saturday, April 2, at 7 p.m. at Bay View Lutheran Church in Sturgeon Bay.
Brisk
ticket sales have prompted this change in location for the last
presentation in the Door County Maritime Museum's Winter Speakers
Series. Hale's program was originally scheduled for the Museum location, but ticket sales have already exceeded seating capacity, prompting the move to the church which is located just down the street from the Museum at 340 W. Maple Street.
Hale's ordeal remains one of the most remarkable shipwreck survival stories on record. As the steamship Daniel J. Morrell was torn apart by 30-foot waves and 60 mile-per-hour winds on the evening of Nov. 29, 1966, Hale was cast into the frigid waters of Lake Huron. He was clad only in a life jacket, pea coat and his underwear. He survived two nights and 38 hours in all on a life raft while three shipmates perished before his eyes. He was the only survivor of a crew of 29. Unlike the other free programs that have preceded it in the Door County Maritime Museum's Winter Speakers Series, tickets must be purchased for Hale's program. Despite the expanded seating that Bay View provides, a limited number of tickets will be available. Tickets sell for $5 for Museum members and $12 for non-members and are available by contacting the Maritime Museum at 920-743-5958 or visiting the Museum at 120 N. Madison Ave. in Sturgeon Bay. For more information call 920-743-5958 or visit www.dcmm.org.
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