There’s hardly a pier or breakwater in Michigan that doesn’t have some kind of memorial to those who lost their lives.
Usually two teenage boys and the older man who tried to save them.
The inland lakes in Michigan take plenty of lives. I lost a friend in the Liberty Mill Pond a few years ago and that’s less than 100 yards across at its widest point.
When I was 14 and lived on Lake Charlevoix, a close friend of mine who lived on the other side of the lake drowned when he slipped off his inner tube while swimming alone off a marina.
And just the day before, he, my friend Dave and I were tubing together way out in the lake closer to town. Evidently Danny didn't know how to swim, and Dave I never knew it......