Lake Erie barge
Jessica and I visit nearby Lakewood Park now and then in the summer, and the lake shore often features sailboats and sometimes distant ore boats. But not often do I notice a barge like this moving by this near the shore.
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Jessica and I visit nearby Lakewood Park now and then in the summer, and the lake shore often features sailboats and sometimes distant ore boats. But not often do I notice a barge like this moving by this near the shore.
For years in the 1980s I would ride in the family station wagon up north from Chicago through Indiana and into Michigan until we were about halfway up Lake Michigan. At that point we would exit US-31 at Winston Road as we closed in our vacation destination at Michago. As we drove over the highway and then turned onto a road that ran almost alonsgside it for half a mile, we would pass a deserted drag strip. Haunted by the good old boy racers in the old days (perhaps the 70s?), the track now sat silent.
Until about ten years ago. Now the course sees crowds and cars every Friday night. I've never been to a race yet but I've heard a few relatives talk about their experiences. It's the minor leagues of racing, no different than a dusty track in Georgia or West Virginia, where young racers fly around the local track with an eye on the big break.
But what I don't really know is, what forces revived the Rothbury drag strip, known today as the Winston Speedway?
