April 18, 2026
Tag: Lightships
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Lightships
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Lightships were intricate pieces of marine history here at home and around the world, but the romance of long careers full of exciting events usually happened elsewhere. The work on lightships was hazardous, tedious and dreadfully boring, sometimes for months on end. There is still little reward for work that benefits the traveling public.
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January 21, 2024 6 Comments
There are good reasons to collect postcards, but this story is a first. Lou collected “snowy” postcard because of the weather on the day he was born. He says that he doesn’t remember that day, but his mother told him, so it must be so! But there are times when memory fails.