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Kids' Fest at National Museum of the Great Lakes

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Ron, left, and Rita Oswald, of Findlay, with their grandson Brennan, 4, of Columbus, watching a movie on the Great Lakes.

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The Cheney family engages a steam engine at the museum. Adults, Matt Cheney, of Greenville, S.C., left, and his brother Eric Cheney, of Fairborn, Ohio with their dad Dick Cheney, center. The boys are Adam Cheney, 7, son of Matt and of Greenville, S.C., left; and brothers Austin, 9, ccenter, and Aaron, 6, right, sons of Eric, and of Fairborn. Dick Cheney lives in Maumee.

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Two men look over two of the life rafts of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in Lake Superior in 1975.

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Ashton Short, 10, of Rochester Hills, Mich., at an exhibit which allows visitors to dump a load of coal from a railcar and load it on to a ship via the modern conveyor belt system.

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A phone for onboard communications on the S.S. Col. James M. Schoonmaker, part of the Great Lakes Maritime Museum in east Toledo.

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The S.S. Col. James M. Schoonmaker with downtown Toledo in the background.

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Cathy, left, and Anthony Carollo, of Toledo, in the officers' sining room on the S.S. Col. James M. Schoonmaker.

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Looking into the engine room on the S.S. Col. James M. Schoonmaker. A self-guided tour allows a visitor to see the mechanics and the mundane of this former great lakes freighter.

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Justin Perry, 12, and his brother Christopher Perry, 13, of Ft. Wayne, Ind., in the pilot room of the S.S. Col. James M. Schoonmaker.

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Justin Perry, 12, and his brother Christopher Perry, 13, of Ft. Wayne, Ind, in the pilot room of the S.S. Col. James M. Schoonmaker.

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Ian Welch, of Toledo, left, draws a caricature of Jack McNeely, 10, [not pictured] while his brother, Max McNeely, 5, teases him, as Jack had teased Max when Max was sitting for his caricature. The McNeelys live in Royal Oak, Mich.

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Ian Welch, of Toledo, left, draws a caricature of Jack McNeely, 10, back to camera, while his brother, Max McNeely, 5, watches.

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