The library purchased a model of the sidewheel steamboat “Walk-in-the-Water,” famous in the annals of Great Lakes history as the first steamboat to ply Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan. Following its launch in 1818, the “Walk-in-the-Water” sailed the lakes for three years before being wrecked in a gale near Buffalo in 1821. The model is still on display in the library’s Avenir Reading Room. Assistant curator of books, Georgia Haugh, was pictured admiring the model steamboat in the Michigan Daily.
