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Foreword Mayor Tom Barrett 9
Preface 11
Acknowledgements 15
Part I Milwaukee's Best-Kept Secret
Getting Acquainted 17
Not Your Ordinary Port 23
Honest Ethics, Highest Values 23
Unparalleled Cooperation 24
Part II Meeting Place by the Water
The "Berth" of the Port 27
The Wheat Connection 34
The Sweetness and Tragedy of Old Memories 36
Part III A Twentieth-Century Port
Staying On Their Toes 43
Milwaukee's Foundation for Foundations 46
Hibernating Giants 49
Size Counts 52
Sewer Socialists: Thinking Outside the Pipe 53
Good Bugs 55
Historic Place Pushes the "Green" Envelope 56
Part IV And Away We Go: Milwaukee Ferries
A Whale of a Time 57
"The Queen of the Great Lakes" 59
"Rails Across the Water" 64
Full-Speed Ahead 66
Running a Tight Ship on a Fast Track 69
Part V Heavy-Duty Lifting and Pulling
Crane Operators 71
Longshoremen 74
The Smell that Could Send You Packing 78
Can You Dig It? 80
Feathers Never Ruffled 83
Industrial Artisans 83
Meeting a Global Demand 85
Working the Wheel 85
Part VI Intermodal in Action
Complicated Logistics 90
Moving Vital Commodities 92
Salt of the Earth 95
Part VII Peeking through the Porthole of the Federal Yukon 101
Part VIII Sunken Ships, Ghosts and Rescues
Shipwrecks 107
The Mud Puppy 109
Ghost Tales 112
Rescues 114
Man Overboard? 116
Water Rodeo 118
Part IX Steering the Port in a New Direction
Culture Change 121
Energy Shifts: The New Fuel in Town 127
Shifting Winds 130
Eye of the Wind: The Port's Future 131
Bibliography 133
Resources 141
About the Author 143
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Add Soul of a Port: The History and Evolution of the Port of Milwaukee, Ever since her boat drifted up against the mammoth docks in Milwaukee's harbor, Leah Dobkin has been enthralled by the evolution of the port and the city so firmly moored to it. From an era when it was a Milwaukee Miracle to make landfall without losing, Soul of a Port: The History and Evolution of the Port of Milwaukee to your collection on WonderClub |