From an a very early age, Penelope (Penny) Lysinger always knew she wanted to see the world. Though adventure and risk was her makeup, Penny was a painfully shy, skinny, auburn-red-haired girl who attended Fordson High School in Dearborn, Detroit. She has had many experiences in her life, good and bad. Frag, integrated with another sentence From traveling to Turkey to working multiple jobs as a single mother of three. As I sat next to my strong grandmother, scribbling down every detailed moment of her life that I could, I realized that risk taking was the easiest thing in the world for my grandmother. Even only a little sliver of her best days reveals her beautiful life. Sitting at the kitchen table listening to her stories was astonishing,
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Some of the people that she met back then, sit with us at the Thanksgiving table to this day. But this wasn’t all she was thankful for. Even though her jobs on the ship were extremely hard, she was grateful for the opportunity to travel all around the Great Lakes and, she gained experiences she’ll never forget.
The SS South American was built in 1913, and sailed as a 528-passenger cruise ship until 1967. As the boat continued to take week-long excursions, the passengers became more and more intrigued with the soo locks, sets of parallel locks first invented in 1855 that allowed boats to get from one lake to the next. cite As Captain Nelson gave two short whistles, the passengers rushed over to the edge of the boat to watch as the SS South American stopped in the soo locks. Penny was out on the “poop deck”; the deck that was specifically for the crew as a social place. She and Mareen, her best friend at the time, watched in awe as the boat was lowered 21 feet into Lake Superior. Soon they would reach Mackinac Island. It only took around 2 hours, but to Penny it felt like forever. She loved this part of the trip, because they had almost the whole day to walk around Mackinac
Some of the people that she met back then, sit with us at the Thanksgiving table to this day. But this wasn’t all she was thankful for. Even though her jobs on the ship were extremely hard, she was grateful for the opportunity to travel all around the Great Lakes and, she gained experiences she’ll never forget.
The SS South American was built in 1913, and sailed as a 528-passenger cruise ship until 1967. As the boat continued to take week-long excursions, the passengers became more and more intrigued with the soo locks, sets of parallel locks first invented in 1855 that allowed boats to get from one lake to the next. cite As Captain Nelson gave two short whistles, the passengers rushed over to the edge of the boat to watch as the SS South American stopped in the soo locks. Penny was out on the “poop deck”; the deck that was specifically for the crew as a social place. She and Mareen, her best friend at the time, watched in awe as the boat was lowered 21 feet into Lake Superior. Soon they would reach Mackinac Island. It only took around 2 hours, but to Penny it felt like forever. She loved this part of the trip, because they had almost the whole day to walk around Mackinac