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Chilly Sebewaing Fishtown 1878 - Life on the Ice
The Chilly Sebewaing Fish Town of 1878
In the brutal Michigan winter of 1878, when mercury barely rose above zero, hundreds of fishing families in Sebewaing didn’t retreat—they built a village on the ice. This episode recounts the true story of how families hauled homes onto the frozen Saginaw Bay, cut holes in the ice, and fished for survival. These makeshift shanties became a self-sufficient ice town, complete with camaraderie, hardship, and ingenuity.
Drawn from local reports and reimagined from Thumbwind.com, this is a gritty slice of frontier life on the Great Lakes—when the only way through winter was to build your future directly on the ice.
A production of Thumbwind Publications
In the brutal Michigan winter of 1878, when mercury barely rose above zero, hundreds of fishing families in Sebewaing didn’t retreat—they built a village on the ice. This episode recounts the true story of how families hauled homes onto the frozen Saginaw Bay, cut holes in the ice, and fished for survival. These makeshift shanties became a self-sufficient ice town, complete with camaraderie, hardship, and ingenuity.
Drawn from local reports and reimagined from Thumbwind.com, this is a gritty slice of frontier life on the Great Lakes—when the only way through winter was to build your future directly on the ice.
A production of Thumbwind Publications
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The Chilly Sebewaing Fish Town of 1878
In the brutal Michigan winter of 1878, when mercury barely rose above zero, hundreds of fishing families in Sebewaing didn’t retreat—they built a village on the ice. This episode recounts the true story of how families hauled homes onto the frozen Saginaw Bay, cut holes in the ice, and fished for survival. These makeshift shanties became a self-sufficient ice town, complete with camaraderie, hardship, and ingenuity.
Drawn from local reports and reimagined from Thumbwind.com, this is a gritty slice of frontier life on the Great Lakes—when the only way through winter was to build your future directly on the ice.
A production of Thumbwind Publications
In the brutal Michigan winter of 1878, when mercury barely rose above zero, hundreds of fishing families in Sebewaing didn’t retreat—they built a village on the ice. This episode recounts the true story of how families hauled homes onto the frozen Saginaw Bay, cut holes in the ice, and fished for survival. These makeshift shanties became a self-sufficient ice town, complete with camaraderie, hardship, and ingenuity.
Drawn from local reports and reimagined from Thumbwind.com, this is a gritty slice of frontier life on the Great Lakes—when the only way through winter was to build your future directly on the ice.
A production of Thumbwind Publications
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