Museum’s Waving Through Time: Flags of the Sweetwater Seas
Nautical Flag Collection Exhibit Expands Online with Part Two
Tuesday, February 16, 2024 (Toledo, Ohio) – The National Museum of the Great Lakes (NMGL)
has released the first series in part two of its Waving Through Time: Flags of the Sweetwater
Seas online exhibit. Every two weeks through March 26, the museum will introduce a series of
flags online that have helped recreational sailors to showcase their identity as well as
communicate on the Great Lakes. From yachting association celebratory flags to flags alerting
boaters of weather or distress—their history and significance will be explored.
“The National Museum of the Great Lakes’ extensive collection of navigational symbols and
house flags is steeped in such rich history. These flags represent the demanding travel and
industrious effort that has taken place on the Great Lakes for centuries,” explains Carrie
Sowden, the museum’s Archaeological and Research Director. “Our Sweetwater Seas have
played an essential role in building all that we enjoy on our shores and beyond.”
Part two of the museum’s flag exhibit will be featured exclusively online. More than 95,000
square miles of navigable water has allowed a large marine recreation industry to anchor itself
within our Great Lakes, and its history is captured in these symbols. Centuries of
communication in recreational sailing on the Sweetwater Seas will be showcased for anyone
to explore on the National Museum of the Great Lakes’s website. To access the exhibit,
including part one highlighting commercial flags, visit nmgl.org/wavingthroughtime.
The museum encourages individuals to follow @NMGLToledo on social media and sign-up to
receive emails for new series launch notifications. The click-and-learn interactive Waving
Through Time exhibit is one of many online museum learning opportunities. During the cold
winter months and beyond, online visitors can also take a virtual tour of the museum and its
ships, see the Port of Toledo Then & Now online exhibit, read through back issues of the
award-winning Inland Seas Journal, and even shop the museum’s store. A special Captain
Scupper’s Kids Club section of the website offers fun learning activities for children of all ages.
About the National Museum of the Great Lakes: Founded in 1944, the Great Lakes Historical
Society has been preserving our shared cultural history by publishing a quarterly journal
Inland Seas® since 1945; by operating a maritime museum since 1952; by offering educational
programs to the general public since 1956; by conducting underwater archaeological research
across the Great Lakes since 2001; and by managing the Col. James M. Schoonmaker Museum
Ship since 2014 and Museum Tug Ohio since 2019. The opening of the National Museum of
the Great Lakes enables the Great Lakes Historical Society to continue its mission to preserve
and make known the important history of the Great Lakes.
WHAT: Waving through Time: Flags of the Sweetwater Seas,
PART – 2 Online Exhibit
WHEN: Part 2 will release new content every 2-weeks through 6 Series:
Series 1: January 16; Series 2: January 30; Series 3: February 13; Series 4:
February 27; Series 5: March 12; Series 6: March 26
WHERE: Online: nmgl.org/wavingthroughtime
ADMISSION: FREE Interactive Online Exhibit
MEDIA CONTACT: Ellen Kennedy; 330.957.0371
ADM expansion turning Windsor-Essex into ‘powerhouse’
Bob Bellacicco
CTV Windsor News Reporter
Published Jan. 11, 2024
Archer Daniels Midlands (ADM) is the recipient of the largest ever federal government investment into the Port of Windsor.
“This is a really important facility in terms of food security, in terms of grain operation, grain management,” said Steve Salmons, president and CEO of Port Windsor.
He was at ADM along with Windsor Tecumseh MP Irek Kusmieczyk for Thursday’s funding announcement.
Kusmierczyk said the federal government is adding another piece to the puzzle along Windsor’s Port by investing $26.3 million toward a $76-million expansion at ADM.
“It’s going to solidify our region as an agricultural and trade powerhouse and Port Windsor, ADM is huge piece of that puzzle,” said Kusmierczyk.
150 employees work at ADM in Windsor. It is one of the world’s largest nutrition companies, serving both people and animals.
“We take soy beans and canola seed and we process them into vegetable oil and livestock feed,” explained Kevin Wright, the company’s GM for the Great Lakes region.
According to Salmon, ADM’s reach is felt every day.
“If you go to McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s you’re eating French fries made in oil from this facility,” he said.
Wright added that the company also handles corn and whole wheat for export to different countries around the world.
“All that grain is coming right here to ADM plus ship loads and ship loads of grain from the prairies. Grain coming from across the Ohio Valley is coming here,” said Salmons who has been in discussions with Wright on developing strategies to help move grain more efficiently.
Wright said this expansion will help the company improve truck loading capacity by introducing a new roadway and kiosk system.
“We’re going add new grain dryers that are going be efficient to allow us to receive grain from the farmer, and dry it and condition it,” he explained.
With increased storage, Wright said ADM will be able to buy more grain from producers in our region and the rest of southwestern Ontario to satisfy demand around the world.
“The producers continue to grow more grain on their land every day, so adding this capacity will allow to keep up with the farmers who are doing a good job of producing more and more grain every day,” Wright said.
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