Diver discovers shipwreck cluster in Lake Michigan [victims of Mormon pirates off Beaver Island]

Crescent News ^ | November 11, 2014 | Associated Press

[Alex Murphy]

Ross Richardson of Lake Ann said he uncovered the wrecks this summer in the waters around the small Island of Skillagalee, located between Beaver Island and the northern Lower Peninsula community of Cross Village, The Grand Rapids Press (http://bit.ly/10KU6ac ) reported. An extensive reef system about four feet under the water was responsible for many shipwrecks in the area before advanced navigation.

[SNIP]

He found four other wreck sites during his three trips to the island. Richardson believes one of his other discoveries, the largest of the Skillagalee wreck sites with the greatest amount of artifacts present, is the wreck of the 150-foot brig Julia Dean. The captain blamed the ship's 1855 sinking on Beaver Island pirates. The three other wrecks remain unidentified.

[AnAmericanMother]

Strang was a weird character. He was tossed from the Mormons for being too extreme.

Read all about it here: American Heritage Magazine: "For his was the kingdom, the power and the glory . . . briefly."

[Slyfox]

LOL

[ebb tide]

Ping

[Larry Lucido]

Glad someone liked it. :-)

[Red Badger]

I have no problem with Mormons at all.
This guy was obviously using his ‘religion’ for his own purposes, not God’s.....................

[Jabba the Nutt]

Michigan designated the Petoskey stone as the official "state stone" in 1965 (Petoskey stone is actually not a stone but fossilized coral). In prehistoric times (about 350 million years ago), Michigan was covered by a shallow sea that teemed with coral colonies. These beautiful fossils are what remains.

[grellis]

Coral reefs don’t exist in the Great Lakes now (my inner dork is about to bust through) but Michigan was at one time covered by an inland ocean. The Petoskey Stone, our state fossil, was coral.

[Elsie]

Stuff right up yer alley here!

[Elsie]

It didn’t say ‘coral’.

[Elsie]

Beats being postverted!

[Elsie]

but I’m late here...

[Elsie]

As in all of the LDS Church was in Utah defending themselves against the United States Government in the Utah Valley War!

And THAT's why the Fancher party was SLAUGHTERED!

[mad_as_he$$]

Watch Hell on Wheels on AMC. Interesting take on Mormons of the era.

[Elsie]

Maybe, Satan isn’t that concerned about yours.

Ma'am?

Do you know your religion is WRONG??

[Elsie]

groan!

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Praise to the Man!

 

 

 

Praise to the man who communed with Jehovah!
Jesus annointed that Prophet and Seer.
Blessed to open the last dispensation,
Kings shall extol him, and nations revere.

Chorus
Hail to the Prophet, ascended to heaven!
Traitors and tyrants now fight him in vain.
Mingling with Gods, he can plan for his brethren;
Death cannot conquer the hero again.

Praise to his mem'ry, he died as a martyr;
Honored and blest be his ever great name!
Long shall his blood, which was shed by assasins,
Plead unto heav'n while the earth lauds his fame.

Chorus
Hail to the Prophet, ascended to heaven!
Traitors and tyrants now fight him in vain.
Mingling with Gods, he can plan for his brethren;
Death cannot conquer the hero again.

Great is his glory and endless his priesthood.
Ever and ever the keys he will hold.
Faithful and true he will enter his kingdom,
Crowned in the midst of the prophets of old.

Chorus
Hail to the Prophet, ascended to heaven!
Traitors and tyrants now fight him in vain.
Mingling with Gods, he can plan for his brethren;
Death cannot conquer the hero again.

Sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven;
Earth must atone for the blood of that man.
Wake up the world for the conflict of justice.
Millions shall know 'Brother Joseph' again.

Chorus
Hail to the Prophet, ascended to heaven!
Traitors and tyrants now fight him in vain.
Mingling with Gods, he can plan for his brethren;
Death cannot conquer the hero again.

[Elsie]

I have no problem with Mormons at all.

Do you have any with MormonISM?

[Dagnabitt]

BOO!!

- the Mormon under your bed

[Elsie]

I guess that is a ‘no’.

[morphing libertarian]

I thought maybe you gave the mormons a day off.

My grandson’s mission work is over in March. We have hired cult experts to detoxify his mind when he comes back.

FYI

[Elsie]

Where has he been stationed?