One of the original "Christmas Ships"?

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The Christmas Ship is a song Lee wrote to retell one of the most moving stories from Lake Michigan lore. The Rouse Simmons was a lumber schooner captained by Herman Schuenemann. Every November, at the end of the logging season, Captain Schuenemann would make one final voyage from Michigan to Chicago, with a load of freshly cut new growth pines. With an eye for drama, he would sell these Christmas trees right off his boat, docked on the Chicago River. In 1912, the Rouse Simmons was lost with all hands in a storm off Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and the loss cast a shadow on the Chicago Christmas that year. But for the next 22 years, his widow, Barbara Schuenemann, made the voyage, and carried on the tradition of the Christmas Tree Ship.