The Thorington School Update

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for December 1, 2025 For the last 18 years, the time frame I have lived in this area, I have traveled Mound Road at 31 Mile, sometime as much as a few days each week, and always pasted this sad bit of history sitting close to the road and abandoned.Continue reading “The Thorington School Update”

The Legend Lives On….

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for November 3, 2025. At 8:30 a.m. on November 9, 1975, in Superior, Wisconsin, the loading began of taconite pellets on the Edmund Fitzgerald, and by 2:52 p.m. the ‘Fitz’ sailed past the Superior break wall and out into the vast expanse of Lake Superior, headed to Zug Island inContinue reading “The Legend Lives On….”

A Queen Loses Her Stacks

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for September 1, 2025 Some months ago, I wrote about the SS United States, the liner often called ‘America’s Liner’, when she was towed from her berth at Pier 80 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Mobile, Alabama in February of 2025, where she had been waiting for 30 some years. IContinue reading “A Queen Loses Her Stacks”

‘Lighthouses of the Southern Atlantic and Gulf States’

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for July 7, 2025 I have been very fortunate to have had six previous local history books published by Arcadia Publishing since 2019, and nothing compares to the feeling when the first package of finished books are delivered to my door. All the work, research, time, love, and aggravation inContinue reading “‘Lighthouses of the Southern Atlantic and Gulf States’”

Preserving a Legacy

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for June 2, 2025 Preserving a Legacy, The United States Lighthouse Society: For the past 40 years, the United States Lighthouse Society (USLHS) has been in the forefront of efforts to preserve this essential part of maritime heritage. The USLHS has built a comprehensive research library, both in the physicalContinue reading “Preserving a Legacy”