Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for May 5th, 2025 With my long love of history, I am always looking for that next great read and hopefully with some sort of an mystery attached. A few years ago I came across just the book I was looking for. Northwest Orient Airlines, Flight 2501 was a DC-4Continue reading “A Michigan Mystery”
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America’s Liner
Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for March 3, 2025 Off she went…. On Wednesday, February 19, 2025, the SS United States, the liner often called ‘America’s Liner’, was towed from her berth at Pier 80 in Philadelphia, where she had been waiting for 30 some years. I have followed this ship for many years, withContinue reading “America’s Liner”
The National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act
Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for Monday, February 3, 2025. Twenty-five years later: The NHLPA or better known as the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act was passed in October of 2000. For the nation’s lighthouse heritage, this became an important step in the needed preservation of many of these historic treasurers. This law became anContinue reading “The National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act”
The Southern Lights During The Civil War
Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for Monday, January 6, 2025. This first bog of the New Year, is in the form of a ‘book report’. While doing research for these lighthouse books, I have had the pleasure of reading so many great books and stories, on how these lighthouses around the country were built, wereContinue reading “The Southern Lights During The Civil War”
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane
Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for Monday December 2, 2024 The house is all lit up with Christmas trees, and the effect always brings a sense of peace and long ago memories, to my life. I received my new cover image last week, for this last lighthouse book, ‘Lighthouses of the Southern Atlantic and GulfContinue reading “The 1900 Galveston Hurricane”