tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534566487834913662.post4623798046966898836..comments2023-09-20T09:42:15.627-04:00Comments on The Topologist's Blog: LaSalle's Walk on the Wild SideThe Topologist,http://www.blogger.com/profile/07210038922248051067noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534566487834913662.post-80142109849512823042015-08-01T08:14:33.129-04:002015-08-01T08:14:33.129-04:00This is very interesting. Thanks. I had known of L...This is very interesting. Thanks. I had known of LaSalle's trek across the Lower Peninsula, and a Google search led me to this post. I've lived in Michigan for 30 years -- in Marquette, Houghton, and now Hillsdale.<br /><br />I suppose my connection to the big lakes, in the midst of corn fields here that seem more like Indiana than the Great Lake State, is through the St. Joseph and its headwaters here in our county. <br /><br />Last summer my son led his Eagle Scout service project that made the river canoe accessible from Jonesville down three bridges toward Litchfield. It was a ton of work that involved making passages through large trees with chain saws, but alas, it seems now that this must be an on-going battle, as since last summer more trees have fallen. It is nice to learn of LaSalle's fort at the other end of the St. Joe.<br /><br />I grew up not even a mile from where he built the Griffin in the section of Niagara Falls that today bears his name. When I was in Scouts in the 1970's, we would canoe in a race from the old Lewiston sand docks five miles or so down river to the Coast Guard station at Fort Niagara.pittsfordbluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06111262475011442319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534566487834913662.post-78088780421749144942015-08-01T08:11:06.937-04:002015-08-01T08:11:06.937-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.pittsfordbluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06111262475011442319noreply@blogger.com