Author: Love Dean
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN: 9781561641659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
An updated historical account of the Florida Keys lighthouses full of history and legend.
Lighthouses of the Florida Keys
Author: Love Dean
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN: 9781561641659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
An updated historical account of the Florida Keys lighthouses full of history and legend.
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN: 9781561641659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
An updated historical account of the Florida Keys lighthouses full of history and legend.
The Florida Historical Quarterly
Author: Florida Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Women who Kept the Lights
Author: Mary Louise Clifford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Hundreds of American women have kept the lamps burning in lighthouses since Hannah Thomas tended Gurnet Point Light in Plymouth, Massachusetts, while her husband was away fighting in the War for Independence. Women Who Kept the Lights details the careers of 32 intrepid women who were official keepers of light stations on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts, on Lake Champlain and the Great Lakes, staying at their posts for periods ranging from a few years to half a century. Most of these women served in the nineteenth century, when the keeper lit a number of lamps in the tower at dusk, replenished their fuel or replaced them at midnight, and every morning polished the lamps and lanterns to keep their lights shining brightly. Several of these stalwart women were commended for their courage in remaining at their posts through severe storms and hurricanes. A few went to the rescue of seamen when ships capsized or were wrecked. Their varied stories paint a multifaceted picture of a unique profession in our maritime history.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Hundreds of American women have kept the lamps burning in lighthouses since Hannah Thomas tended Gurnet Point Light in Plymouth, Massachusetts, while her husband was away fighting in the War for Independence. Women Who Kept the Lights details the careers of 32 intrepid women who were official keepers of light stations on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts, on Lake Champlain and the Great Lakes, staying at their posts for periods ranging from a few years to half a century. Most of these women served in the nineteenth century, when the keeper lit a number of lamps in the tower at dusk, replenished their fuel or replaced them at midnight, and every morning polished the lamps and lanterns to keep their lights shining brightly. Several of these stalwart women were commended for their courage in remaining at their posts through severe storms and hurricanes. A few went to the rescue of seamen when ships capsized or were wrecked. Their varied stories paint a multifaceted picture of a unique profession in our maritime history.
Family Legacy
Author: Jean Dixon Mann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Williams' Family Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Historic Lighthouse Preservation Handbook
Author:
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Subject Guide to Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2476
Book Description
Books in Print Supplement
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1852
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1852
Book Description
Lighthouse Plans in the National Archives
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lighthouses
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lighthouses
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Walker's Key
Author: Frank Haddleton
Publisher: Onion River Press
ISBN: 9781949066234
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
As dawn breaks on a summer morning in 1900, Darby Walker, owner of a St. Petersburg, Florida, ferry service, sets out to check on his older brother, Tulley, whose lighthouse across Tampa Bay on Walker's Key has gone dark. The recent death of their father, a ship pilot based on Egmont Key, has been declared a suicide, but Darby knows better, and signs point to Tulley as the murderer. Going back thirty-five years to Darby's birth in Harwich Port, on Cape Cod, Walker's Key explores the bitter sibling rivalry between overly kind, personable Darby and angry, isolated Tulley. While that sibling rivalry unfolds, Darby learns of a sibling rivalry generations earlier in his family, a rivalry that ended in murder. Of pivotal significance is Darby's grandfather, an abolitionist who rescued slaves from a Florida plantation decades earlier and initiated a family tradition of acceptance far broader than the Walker brothers realize when one of them maliciously exposes the other's private encounter. When we arrive back in 1900, Darby works to figure out who has murdered his father. When he learns the killer's identity, he must find the inner strength to bring the killer to justice while also saving himself.
Publisher: Onion River Press
ISBN: 9781949066234
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
As dawn breaks on a summer morning in 1900, Darby Walker, owner of a St. Petersburg, Florida, ferry service, sets out to check on his older brother, Tulley, whose lighthouse across Tampa Bay on Walker's Key has gone dark. The recent death of their father, a ship pilot based on Egmont Key, has been declared a suicide, but Darby knows better, and signs point to Tulley as the murderer. Going back thirty-five years to Darby's birth in Harwich Port, on Cape Cod, Walker's Key explores the bitter sibling rivalry between overly kind, personable Darby and angry, isolated Tulley. While that sibling rivalry unfolds, Darby learns of a sibling rivalry generations earlier in his family, a rivalry that ended in murder. Of pivotal significance is Darby's grandfather, an abolitionist who rescued slaves from a Florida plantation decades earlier and initiated a family tradition of acceptance far broader than the Walker brothers realize when one of them maliciously exposes the other's private encounter. When we arrive back in 1900, Darby works to figure out who has murdered his father. When he learns the killer's identity, he must find the inner strength to bring the killer to justice while also saving himself.