Linda’ Monday Morning Moaning’s The’Post Card History Series’ is another of the ‘Series’ books for Arcadia Publishing. This series has a different cover, then what I have been used to working with on my previous books for Arcadia. Late lat week I was sent the mock up of two versions of ‘Lighthouses and Lifesaving, etc’.Continue reading “‘Lighthouse and Lifesaving on the Great Lakes’”
Category Archives: Great Lakes Lighthouses
Researching the Lights’ 2
Linda’s Monday Morning Moaning’s In a lighthouse, the source of light is called the ‘lamp’, whether electric or fueled by oil, and the light is concentrated by the ‘lens’ or ‘optic’. The introduction of electrification and automatic lamp changers began to make lighthouse keepers obsolete. They lighthouses still had keepers, because they could be usedContinue reading “Researching the Lights’ 2”
Researching the ‘Lights’
Linda’s Monday Morning Moaning’s, Let’s start with, “What is a lighthouse”? Very simply a tower, building or other type of structure designed to emit a light system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid on the seas or inland waterways. Lighthouses helped mark the way around dangerous coastlines, shoals,Continue reading “Researching the ‘Lights’”
A Quick Trip for Research
Linda’s Monday Morning Moaning’ If you are researching lighthouses, the place to go is the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association, also known as ‘GLLKA’ in Mackinaw City, Michigan. For those that might not be familiar to this part of Michigan, it’s were the very tip of the mitten, connects to a five mile long bridgeContinue reading “A Quick Trip for Research”
‘Lights of the Great Lakes’
Linda’s Monday Morning Moaning’s Last week, I said I would be blogging the second part of the information on the Mount Vernon area, here in Washington. That will be furthered in next weeks blog instead of todays. For the last couple of months I have been working on a new project while I was waitingContinue reading “‘Lights of the Great Lakes’”
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