"It's Buffalo's missing icon, like a long lost brother come home." That was the crazy methodology a local research team came up with when a sunken wooden ship was found at the bottom of Lake Erie (near Dunkirk).
Since the discovery, this research team has been working up big plans for the long-lost schooner (that's a funny word). They want the ship to be displayed in a giant water tank at the waterfront. I say keep it in the water in the waterfront...it's much cheaper.
The team compared the ship's importance to the Liberty Bell and the Alamo (clearly they have fallen off their rocker). They have high expectations, as they put it, for this becoming a national tourist attraction. Really? Aren't there hundreds of these old shipwrecks scattered throughout the Great Lakes? Now if it doubles as a political dunk tank...then we're talkin' something cool.
If the ship is so important to Buffalo's history, a) why weren't we looking for it a long time ago? and b) why is our local icon the Buffalo and not a schooner? Yes, I think spending too much time on the water can mess with your brain functions a bit.
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