Next we drove to the east side of the peninsula and then north. We came to the small town of Gay, Michigan. The old school house was the attraction to see in this small town. The woman who greeted us, Nancy, gave us the history of the 2-story, 4-classroom school.
The local stamp mill owners built the school in the early 1900s for the workers’ children. The mills closed in 1932 because of the depression, and many families moved away. The school finally closed in 1961, and Nancy, our guide, was one of the last students in the school.
While the mills had the same issue with stamp sand that we just talked about in part 2, they just moved it out to Lake Superior using a long conveyor belt. In some places the sand was 25-feet deep thick in the water. This “sand” looks like small black stones, and the winter storms are continually breaking it up and washing it down the coast to fishing areas, a real problem for commercial fishing.
The other pictures are of a thermometer of height of snow (already eclipsed) and the sign describing it. Can’t imagine this much snow!
The record is 390.4 inches during the winter of 1978-79.
