‘Lighthouses of the Pacific Coast’ Book Cover

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moanings for January 1, 2024

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024

This has been a great way to start the first day of the new year. Although, I have been talking about the latest book I have been working on, this is the first time I have had to highlight the new cover that Arcadia Publishing has designed for me. On the cover Yaquina Lighthouse in Oregon, or as it has been known, over the years, Cape Foulweather, due to the elements that created the need for this and the many other light houses on the Pacific Coast when maritime navigation depended on these lights and the brave keepers that manned them.

This is the third lighthouse book out of a series of four to be published on the lighthouses around the coast line of the United States, including the Great Lakes. I have tried to gather as many vintage postcards of the various lights as I have been able to find. Some come very easy, some not so much! Finding interesting postcards and unusual cards has been my goal, to show what all these lights looked like when they were used to guide maritime navigation through some of the most treacherous waters there are. I have found that in the different areas of our country where you are situated will have a great impact on what type of lighthouse you become familiar with. In Alaska, cement built Art Deco lighthouses where the fog signal building and tower are all in one, were the keepers residences are usually separate, are very common. You will see in Washington and Oregon the tall towers and separate keepers residences similar to the east coast lights. California has a variety of designs that have been used for their lighthouses. Many are a schoolhouse design with the light tower rising from the middle of the roof line. In Hawaii we are back to the concrete built lights, obviously to make them as indestructible as possible from the elements.

Point Hueneme Lighthouse in California is an example of the lighthouse keepers residence and the light tower as used together, this a Victorian Italianate style. Because of its unusual character I have used this on the back cover of the Pacific Coast lights.

This edition will be published this summer of 2024 by Arcadia Publishing. So now it’s back to the research, writing and gathering the images needed for an early March handover to the publishers.

On that ‘wee note’, till next month Monday February 5, 2024.

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