Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for November 7, 2022 This week into my mail inbox came a lovely surprise and attached was a contract for a fifth book for Arcadia Publishing. I had submitted a proposal for a book to my editor a couple of weeks ago and their answer was the go ahead IContinue reading “The Start of New Research”
Tag Archives: Lighthouses and Lifesaving on the Great Lakes
Vintage Portland Head Light
Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for October 3, 2022 Portland Head Lighthouse, Cape Elizabeth, Maine: With the ratification of the United States Constitution in June 1788, the new federal government of the United States came into being. On August 7, 1789, (a lovely date in 1970 to be married, also) the First Congress of theContinue reading “Vintage Portland Head Light”
The Portland Head Light
Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for September 5, 2022. This month, I am writing about a lighthouse that is further east than our Great Lakes Lights, the Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Once again I was given a great opportunity to see and photograph one of the most photographed lighthouses in the UnitedContinue reading “The Portland Head Light”
A Reef Light and a Shoal Light on Lake Michigan
Linda’s Monday Morning Monthly Moaning’s on August 1, 2022 This past week I was given the opportunity to go up to Mackinaw City to the home of the Great Lakes Lighthouse Association group, where they were having their annual fund raiser at the Headlands Dark Sky Park. There would also be a daytime lighthouse tourContinue reading “A Reef Light and a Shoal Light on Lake Michigan”
St Helena Lighthouse
July 4th, 2022 Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s In the Straits of Mackinac, St Helena Island Lighthouse, St Ignace, Michigan: St Helena is an uninhabited 240 acre island 7 mile west of the Mackinac Bridge and 2 miles from the Upper Peninsula. Because of the dangerous shoals in this part of the lake in 1872Continue reading “St Helena Lighthouse”