Tickets are now available for the 3rd Annual McDougall’s Dream Dinner and Silent Auction on board the SS Meteor Whaleback Ship Museum in Superior, Wisconsin.  This fundraising event helps support the restoration and preservation of the worlds only remaining non-submerged whaleback steamer.  The whalebacks were built in Superior Wisconsin at the American Steel Barge Company.  The Meteor was launched in 1896, sailed for 70+ years and was then donated to the City of Superior to be operated as a ship museum.  2008 will mark her 112 anniversary - and 35 years as a museum.

 Ticket price is $35 and includes, optional tour of the ship, gourmet dinner buffet catered by the Boathouse Restaurant, music and entertainment and the chance to bid in the silent acution.  For more information and to see some of the fabulous, one-of-a-kind items up for bid, visit http://www.superiorpublicmuseums.org/ and click on the event information link below the photo of the Meteor.

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