Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for Monday September 2, 2024 September is an exciting month for me as an author, as my 6th book and 3rd vintage postcard lighthouse book will drop from Arcadia Publishing, ‘Lighthouses of the Pacific Coast’ on Monday the 16th. Here is a sample of Chapter 4. Along the over 800Continue reading “Lighthouses of California”
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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”
‘Lighthouses of the Pacific Coast’
Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for November 6, 2023 With the summer launch of ‘Lighthouses of the North Atlantic Coast’, it was time to move on with my next venture on the Pacific Coast. This will be the third of what I hope to be four books on the Great Lakes and Coastal lights inContinue reading “‘Lighthouses of the Pacific Coast’”
‘Princess May’s’ Grounding
Linda’s Monthly Monday Mornings Moaning’s for June 5, 20023 Built in England by the Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. in 1888, the ship was originally named Cass, where in 1901 after thirteen years serving along the Chinese coast, the Canadian Pacific Railway Coastal Service purchased and renamed the Cass, the ‘Princess May’, after Mary of Teck,Continue reading “‘Princess May’s’ Grounding”