Ohio The Kasper family has been coming to South Bass Island, in Lake Erie about halfway between Ohio and Canada, for nearly 30 years. Like most people on the island, they live in a cabin, but there's is no ordinary cabin. It's a structure they'd gawked at and admired for years, like everyone else who cruises by.
Most people think it 's the remains of a shipwreck.
It's actually the forward deckhouse from an ore boat. It was built in 1923 as part of the Ford Motor fleet. About 15 years ago, the boat was headed for the scrap heap. An ambitious couple decided to salvage the front structure and somehow managed to haul the 220-ton piece by crane to its present perch on a limestone cliff. When it came up for auction recently, Bryan Kasper and his dad Jerry put in the winning bid and now use it as their family compound.