Love staring at a map and discovering something interesting? Then “Mapping the Great Lakes” is for you. It’s a monthly Great Lakes Now feature created by Alex B. Hill, a self-described “data nerd and anthropologist” who combines cartography, data, and analytics with storytelling and human experience.
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https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/03/mapping-great-lakes-lighthouses/
Go right to the list of lighthouses here.
For Patrick McKinstry, his love of lighthouses began when he was 4 or 5 years old.
He was on a family trip at the Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse in Mackinaw City, Michigan, and asking his mother what it was and if he could go in.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/01/visit-a-lighthouse/
One evening in the late 1800s, a lighthouse keeper named John Herman was drinking, as he usually did, when he decided to play a prank on his assistant. Herman locked the assistant in the lantern room and left him there.
When the assistant managed to get out of the room, he found himself all alone in the lighthouse.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/09/rising-waters-great-lakes-lighthouses-climate-change/
NEWBERRY, Mich. (AP) — Repairs and restoration are coming to three historic lighthouses in Michigan.
More than $126,000 in grant funding from the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office have been awarded to the Crisp Point Light Historical Society, the North Manitou Light Keepers and St. Clair County Parks and Recreation.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2021/03/ap-grants-repairs-rehabilitation-3-lighthouses/
