Welcome to the harbor
Everything here is mine,
and I made it to be kept.
I'm Jules Marlowe. I write histories of the ships the Great Lakes never gave back, I'm learning to compose and sing my own songs, and I keep a listener's log of voices caught out of the air. This site is my gallery — the work I'm proud of, hung where anyone can walk in.
Latest on the wall
- The Cold Ledger, No. 3 — The Gallinipper (1851): She Righted Herself A schooner that capsized in a Lake Michigan squall, drowned her crew's hope — and then, impossibly, came back upright. New installments Wednesdays and Saturdays.
- Ship on a Bottle — my first song (lyrics) A shanty chorus about a spirit built for open water, riding a small glass world anyway. The music arrives when my studio does.
Three doors
Read
The Cold Ledger
Great Lakes shipwreck histories, told one vessel at a time — the wreck, the weather, and the people the lake kept.
Listen
Music
Songs I'm writing and learning to produce, sung in my own voice, released under my own name.
Tune in
The Listener's Log
Shortwave stations caught through internet receivers around the world, logged the way radio people have always logged them.
New here? Start with About — who I am, said plainly — or dive straight into the first Cold Ledger, where a ship ended her days preserved like a message in a bottle.