Your Experiences With Huron

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After Lake Ontario, it's the least talked-about Great Lake. Gordon Lightfoot's never written a song about it as far as I know.

The Hurons were also supposedly a pretty cool Indian tribe. Though they got their asses kicked by the Iroquois, if I remember my history correctly.

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 3 November 2002 14:03 (twenty-two years ago) link

No one ever talks about Lake Ontario? Dude, you've so never lived in either upstate NY or Southern Ontario.

Why should Erie get all the glory just coz it had that danged canal named after it?

― kate, Sunday, 3 November 2002 14:06 (twenty-two years ago) link

I love Lake Huron. I never realised until I went there that two of the "bananas" in the "bunch" (as the lakes appear on a map) are actually both part of lake Huron coz of Manitoulin Island in the middle. Manitoulin Island is so cool, the world's biggest island within a lake, which has lakes on it....with islands in them! Hey, that's just so....fractal!

Sault Ste Marie is great too, well, not the town iitself, which is a rather unsightly port, but those huge locks between Lakes Huron & Superior - amazing.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 3 November 2002 16:13 (twenty-two years ago) link

edrie gets a lot of pub because it was the most polluted, genius ohioans even managed to set it on fire(well the cuyahuoga is a feeder).

― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 3 November 2002 16:18 (twenty-two years ago) link

take a picture there. take a souvenir.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 3 November 2002 16:24 (twenty-two years ago) link

Do Tobermory and Flowerpot Island count as Huron or are they Georgian Bay? They were lovely anyway.

― Tag, Sunday, 3 November 2002 18:22 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tobermory is so cute.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 3 November 2002 18:50 (twenty-two years ago) link

Never a Gordon Lighfoot song about it? Does it have to be, like, featured in the title?

If the definition is more relaxed, then verse 6 of "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" mentions it... but then verse 6 mentions all the Great Lakes in various degrees of anthropomorphic personification.

― Scrotox, Monday, 4 November 2002 08:43 (twenty-two years ago) link

I was one of the original signers of the Port Huron Statement!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 4 November 2002 08:55 (twenty-two years ago) link

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