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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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Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s Harriett Colfax served as the keeper of the Michigan City Lighthouse for 43 years from her appointment in 1861 until her retirement at age 80 in 1904. The oldest, stanchest and most reliable lighthouse keeper in the United States is a women. A little, fragile, pretty maid of more thanContinue reading “Harriet Colfax, part 2”
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Linda’s Monthly, Monday Morning Moaning’s, not quite as catchy, but will have to do. I am going to step a wee bit away from the ‘local history stories’ I usually try to write, but this is in keeping with the research I am doing, which differently takes me away from local history anyway. The slowContinue reading “Harriet Colfax, Lighthouse Keeper”
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