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Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s This mornings moaning’s is written with great excitement as it’s finally here! This book that has a years worth of work and research is ready for the public. Because of my love of photographing the many lights in our area, I decided to try my hand at a vintage lookContinue reading “‘Lighthouses and Lifesaving on the Great Lakes’”
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Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s: Monday, 2 May 20022 A week ago I notices a small cardboard box sitting on my porch, now normally this is hardly an unusual occurrence at my house. But instead of the usual markings on the boxes, it said Arcadia! The box was small enough to tell me that myContinue reading “My first five arrive!”
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Linda’s Monday Morning Monthly Moaning’s: The many lighthouse keepers would learn to live with danger every day. The building of Spectacle Reef light was considered on of the greatest engineering feats of its time in 1874. It would take 200 men, fair years to complete this light. The tower was 80 feet tall and hadContinue reading “The Spectacle Reef Light Tragedy”
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The SS Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago. She was owned by the St Joseph-Chicago Steamship Company and made money ferrying people from Chicago to picnic sites on the shores of Lake Michigan. The Eastland was launched in 1903, it was designed to carry 650 passengers, but major construction and refitting in 1913Continue reading “The Eastland Disaster”
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Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s: Arcadia’s ‘Postcard History Series’ was a step in a different direction for me after the previous three books, I have written. But I found it was a direction I really enjoyed going toward. My interest in postcards, especially vintage cards, does not go back as far as my interest inContinue reading “‘Lighthouses and Lifesaving on the Great Lakes’ Part 2”
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