Coast Guard set for annual re-enactment, delivery of 1,200 Christmas trees for deserving families
CHICAGO – The Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw, serving once again as this year’s “Christmas Ship” and loaded with more than 1,200 Christmas trees, is returning to Chicago on Dec. 6, at 8:30 a.m., for a two-day event re-enacting an annual Chicago tradition in the late 1800s and early 1900’s.
The Christmas trees, purchased by the Chicago’s Christmas Ship Committee, will be offloaded on the morning...
Coast Guard, Christmas Ship Committee set for re-enactment, delivery of 1,300 Christmas trees for deserving families
Cutter Mackinaw returning to Chicago during historic 100th anniversary of sinking of Rouse Simmons
CHICAGO – The Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw, serving as this year’s Christmas Ship and loaded with 1,300 Christmas trees, is scheduled to return to Chicago Friday at 8 a.m., for a two-day event depicting what was an annual Chicago tradition in the early 1900s.
The re-enactment by the Mackinaw...
