Great Lakes Lighthouses – Page 4 – Linda Osborne Cynowa

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”

‘Lighthouses of the Pacific Coast’ Book Cover

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moanings for January 1, 2024 HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024 This has been a great way to start the first day of the new year. Although, I have been talking about the latest book I have been working on, this is the first time I have had to highlight the new coverContinue reading “‘Lighthouses of the Pacific Coast’ Book Cover”

‘Sanibel Island Lighthouse’

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for October 2, 2023 The “big ones” that hit near Southwest Florida were Donna 1960, Charley 2004, Wilma 2005, Irma 2017, and Ian 2022, not even counting the hurricanes that happened before they started giving them names, which puts in doubt the “every ten years” myth. Created in a metal factoryContinue reading “‘Sanibel Island Lighthouse’”