July 27, 2024
Tag: Relief
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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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July 21, 2022 3 Comments
To write your name in the world’s largest book of its kind was enough to encourage thousands of early 20th century tourists to make their way to Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. Civil War tourism was a new way for Americans to learn history.