The EmmaLee is based upon ships such as the Sylvia (above) shown on Round Lake in Charlevoix, Michigan before the War.  The Navy commissioned the ship at the outset of World War II and it never returned to the Great Lakes.  The last known records of the Sylvia had it running trade routes in the Greek Islands in the 1960's.  It's current condition and whereabouts remain unknown.

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Background

An aerial photo of Round Lake in Charlevoix, Michigan, (circa 1930), resting between Lake Charlevoix on the bottom and Lake Michigan stretching out to the horizon on the top.  (Photo courtesy of the Charlevoix Historical Society).

In The Seasons of the EmmaLee, Michael Lindley utilized the resources of the Charlevoix Historical Society Harsha House Museum, as well as the Charlevoix Public Library archives and book collection.

The grand cruising yacht, the EmmaLee, is based upon similar boats that sailed Lake Charlevoix and surrounding waters in the years before World War II.  One such boat was the Sylvia that is the photograph used for the cover of this novel by permission of the Charlevoix Historical Society.