hi folks
this summer was the very first time my husband and i ever visited the lighthouses of the UP. after you see Superiors face, a steel gray surface with blue sky above can you really understand what all of the Laker' crews know about the harsh freshwater sea. coming up through the locks the day seemed warm, minutes later out on the lake, out from turquoise point lighthouse the lake changed temperature seemed much cooler and the winds became high and cutting to the skin. He really lived those mens' death by being very informed of the life of lake superior---hm-m maybe that's why we call him an artist. painting pictures of life with words...in the rooms of her ice water mansions, home to 29 and many others besides the ones whose wives, sons and daughters we mourned and still mourn in the memory of this song. during that trip we watched the big ships going up and down the river. something quite amazing...that would be my dream vacation, to be crew on one of those huge ships for a season. but, Gordon had so many details of those lakes, that he must have had some experience greater than just living by the lakes...like, perhaps, he ran away as a boy and lived on one of the ships, but, maybe he just listens to the lively stories that people tell around campfires and in his small town perhaps that is where he lived these experiences...just wondering into the ether...what do you guys think? or am I on a taboo subject (I hesitate frequently from commenting since I first entered this corfid domain and found a rather large squabble about what is and is not appropriate to be discussed here).
hey, if I'm in the wrong just delete it, thanks.
lighthouses, one of my passions. anyone wanting information on the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association, please,
E-mail me. GLLKA is a group of people who are saving the lights of the lakes and passing on the culture and the torch by our love of these ghosts on the shores of our Great Lakes.
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