THE ALOHA

 It was another early morning ride to Glen Haven to walk the beach.  The sky was still washed in gold from the sunrise an hour before.   I returned by the path next to the Aloha, the historic  tugboat on display across from the Cannery.  Build in 1937, the classic  “turtle back” gill net fishing boat worked Lake Michigan until the mid-1980s.  It had been temporarily moored at Frankfort when it split a seam and sank in the harbor.  In 2013, The National Park Service funded its recovery, restoration, and transportation to Glen Haven.  I sure hope those days of financial support for preserving our Lakeshore history aren’t over.