The Start of New Research

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for November 7, 2022

This week into my mail inbox came a lovely surprise and attached was a contract for a fifth book for Arcadia Publishing. I had submitted a proposal for a book to my editor a couple of weeks ago and their answer was the go ahead I needed. This book will be also a part of their ‘Historical Postcard Series’, as my ‘Lighthouse and Lifesaving on the Great Lakes’ was in vintage postcards.

While researching the first lighthouse book, collecting vintage postcards to use was an important part of the research, after finding the images, the learning came, and what could I find out about these long loved lights. Now the learning starts again in obtaining the vintage postcards that will be needed for ‘Lighthouses of the Northern Atlantic Coast’, lighthouses along the coast of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Delaware.

So the ‘mock book’ (this was explained in an earlier blog, but basically I put together a book/binder with 128 pages, the same as the completed book, and print images and make placements to see what fits and what is still needed to give me a well round look at the lights in each of these states, then the writing comes later) has been started and images have been catalogued. Below are a sample of some of the images I have acquired.

Bringing attention to these lights here and on the Great Lakes is the best way to bring to the public the desperate need historical societies and commissions need in protecting these navigational marvels that were so valued during an important part of our history.

On that ‘wee note’ till next month, Monday December 5, 2022.

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