Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales Author:Frederick Stonehouse Frederick Stonehouse has obviously spent a great many hours researching the lighthouses, lightships, keeps and wrecks detailed in this book. He also has a great deal of affection for his subject. The book contains an encapsulated history of the lighthouse service at the beginning, which sets the historicval context of the tales that follow. Thes... more »e range from factual accounts from logs to anecdotal stories from survivors' relatives, taking in a lighthouse hymn on the way.
1. Lighthouses : the early years [construction, history, United States, Canada, lights -- lenses -- lamps, fog signals, flashing lights, daily routine, inspectors] --
2. Death at Oswego Light --
3. "Let the lower lights be burning" [by Philip Paul Bliss, 1871] -- Where is Number 82? [Lightship built in 1912] --
4. New Buffalo Light [example of shoddy construction, building in the wrong places, "unreliable" keepers and pettifoggerish bureaucracy] -- Jump for it [rescue shipwrecked crew, Pilot Island, J.C. Gilmore, A.P. Nichols] -- Tragedy at Squaw Island --
That's the lighthouse, hard right! [Lansing Shoal] -- St. Martin Island, a keepers life -- Poverty Island Treasure --
5. The Lighthouse that wasn't : Superior Shoal -- Where is the Lambton -- The Rock [of Ages Reef] and the [George M.] Cox -- The lighthouse« less