Shipwrecks visible in northern Lake Michigan: Wrecked boats appear in Michigan - Grand Rapids News | Examiner.com

A Michigan May means strawberries, sunshine and...shipwrecks? Several shipwrecks are visible in the clear waters of northern Lake Michigan. Live Science said May 6 that the hulls of several wrecked boats show up clearly from elevated promontories between Ludington, Frankfort, Leland and Traverse City, Michigan.



The boat wreck of the Rising Sun, a 133-foot-long wooden steamer foundered during an early snowstorm in shallow water just north of Pyramid Point on October 29, 1917. Its wreckage sits in 6-12 feet of water. The skeletal remains show up starkly in Lake Michigan's sandy bottom and vivid turquoise waters. Lake Michigan's water is gloriously blue everywhere and especially in the stretch.  Shipwrecks visible in northern Lake Michigan: Wrecked boats appear in Michigan

Detroit Institute of Arts' Kahlo-Rivera exhibit gives Cinco de Mayo attitude

Looking for an outside-the-pinata Cinco de Mayo experience, a celebration with attitude? Tired same-old margaritas and tacos? Why not check out the Detroit Institute of Art's Frida Kahlo-Diego Rivera exhibit? These two Mexican artists were anything but stereotypical. Their passion for communism, reflected in their individual art, provides interesting contrast to commercial Cinco de Mayo schmaltz.  Detroit Institute of Arts' Kahlo-Rivera exhibit gives Cinco de Mayo attitude

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