TOLEDO, Ohio — In celebration of local maritime history and culture, the National Museum of the Great Lakes (NMGL) is hosting the Great Lakes Fest and Toledo Antique & Classic Boat Show Saturday.
The festival, which takes place on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., will feature displays of vessels, live demonstrations, vendors, food trucks and more. According to a press release, tickets to the event are $10 for pre-sale and $15 day-of. Admission for NMGL members is free.
Admission covers both the festival and access to the museum and museum vessels - the Col. James M. Schoonmaker and the tugboat Ohio.
The event also coincides with the final weekend of "Freighter Golf," a putting event aboard the Schoonmaker.
Situated along a major Lake Erie port, Toledo is home to a rich maritime industrial history, including ties to the famed S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 ballad, just a year after it sank.
For more information and to pre-purchase tickets to the Great Lakes Fest, click here.
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