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‘How Fast Can Uncle Billy Run?’

Linda’s Month Monday Morning Mornings for August 5, 2024 While waiting for the ‘Lighthouses of the Pacific Coast’ to be published I have been researching and working on the last of the lighthouse books for Arcadia Publishing, no firm title yet, but’ Lighthouse of the Southern Atlantic and Gulf States’ is probably a good start.Continue reading “‘How Fast Can Uncle Billy Run?’”

Lighthouses of Washington

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for June 3, 2024 There are eighteen active lighthouses on the Washington coast line, three are standing but considered inactive, three have become automated towers, and two have been demolished. On September 16, Arcadia will publish ‘Lighthouses of the Pacific Coast’ the third in a series of four vintage postcard lighthouseContinue reading “Lighthouses of Washington”

Lighthouses of Oregon

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for May 6, 2024 There are eleven lighthouses on the Oregon Coast and nine of them are on the National Register of Historic Places, along the 363 miles of that Oregon Coast. This summer Arcadia will publish ‘Lighthouses of the Pacific Coast’ the third in a series of four vintage postcardContinue reading “Lighthouses of Oregon”

The Scotch Cap Lighthouse, April Fool’s Day 1946

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for April 1st, 2024 On an April Fools Day, 78 years ago on Unimak Island, in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska the unthinkable would happen. At 1:30 am a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the North Pacific, at a location roughly 13,000 feet below the surface of the ocean. The earthquake createdContinue reading “The Scotch Cap Lighthouse, April Fool’s Day 1946”

‘The Narrows’ Halifax 1917

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for March 4th, 2024 After steaming out of New York City on December 1, 1917, filled with a staggering three thousand tons of TNT, benzene and gun cotton, this munitions ship the Mont-Blanc found its way up the Atlantic coast, through waters filled with enemy u-boats. After colliding with anotherContinue reading “‘The Narrows’ Halifax 1917”