“Everybody’s got a story.” The boat is a classic, white paint on “clinker-built” varnished wood built to glide through the rough chop of Lake Erie. What was once utilitarian and family ...

The first walk across Lake Erie from Erie to Canada was reported to be in 1912, when a 19-year-old North East man crossed the frozen lake. "It had never been done before," the Erie Times-News said ...