Marquette – All ages are invited to watch the documentary film, “Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure” on Friday, March 27 at 4 p.m. in the Community Room of the Peter White Public Library.
“Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure” describes the extraordinary true story of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s legendary 1914-1916 British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. While never accomplishing its goal of the first crossing of the Antarctic
continent, this expedition is a testament to heroism and human endurance, with all 28 men surviving nearly two years in the barren, frigid Antarctic when their ship, Endurance, was caught in pack ice and eventually crushed, almost 100 years ago.
Meet Elizabeth Bakewell Rajala and learn about her father’s 1914 adventures sailing south with explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Rajala’s father was William Lincoln Bakewell, who was the only American on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s expedition. William Bakewell lived in the Upper Peninsula and is buried in Skandia.
The program is open to the public at no admission charge. For more information visit www.pwpl.info or call 226-4318.
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