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Lake Michigan’s Frozen Lights

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for February 2, 2016. Frigid temperatures, strong winds, snow and freezing spray have created dramatic ice formations along Lake Michigan’s shoreline, with ice coverage on the lake reaching more than 35% earlier than normal this week. The severe conditions have coated iconic lighthouses in Grand Haven, South Haven and St.Continue reading “Lake Michigan’s Frozen Lights”

History of the United States Lighthouses

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for Monday January 5, 2026 During the colonial period in America, individual colonies provided aids to navigation. In the 17th century they typically used beacons as aids, often lighted. For example, colonists built fires on Beavertail Point to guide vessels at night in Newport, Rhode Island, soon after it wasContinue reading “History of the United States Lighthouses”

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”