Herman Scheunemann wasn’t the only captain carrying Christmas trees across Lake Michigan to Chicago at the turn of the last century, but he was the most beloved. Which makes this episode even sadder.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hi and welcome to the short stuff. I should say Merry Christmas and welcome to the short stuff, everybody, because this episode comes out on December 25th, which, as many people know, is Christmas Day.
That's right. And it's a rare Christmas short stuff where we also have to issue a warning. for kids listening that this story, while beautiful and lovely, takes a very dark turn as yet another maritime disaster episode.
Yeah, I mean, I guess I had second thoughts about this, but reading over it again, I'm like, no, this is a good Christmas story.
Yeah, this was so funny to me. I just have to tell everyone when Josh sent it, I thought he was sending it as a joke of like, hey, here's a Christmas thing. Because I had already given him a hard time about all the maritime disaster episodes we do. And here was another one. And you're like, do we do a lot of those? Yeah. I was like, are you kidding me? I still couldn't tell.
Yeah, no, I forgot about that Ourang Medan and Mystery of the Sarah Jo two for in like, I think, two weeks in a row or something.
Yeah, but hey, this one is about the death of Captain Santa.
Yeah, so just ring some jingle bells for this maritime disaster and it'll differentiate it from the others, right?
Yeah, this one has a very cool story around it, though, because in Chicago around the turn of the last century, they did a very cool thing wherein if you needed a Christmas tree. You could head down to the Chicago River and you could go aboard a real sailing ship loaded with Christmas lights and Christmas trees, like a little temporary Christmas tree lot to pick out your tree.
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