It is an amazing story, well researched, well concluded. Lighthouse Service, redneck loggers, a patrician strongman, wildlife poachers, excitable newspaper journalists, and an old lady digging for nickels at the base of the lighthouse.ĭeath at the Lighthouse is a summary of Graham's thirty years of research which includes an analysis of all the various factions in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Gradually a complex and contradictory story emerged that embraced the entire history of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with its conflicts and problems, and served like a Rorschach pattern differently interpreted by Native Americans, local whites, the U.S. He began his investigation by interviewing people, reading old newspapers, and working in archives in Washington, DC Cleveland, Ohio Cambridge, Massachusetts Marquette, Michigan and in local Michigan historical societies. Two soldiers clung to their overturned boat, roiled by the frigid waters of Rhode Island’s Newport. What happened in 1908 to lighthouse keeper George Genry and his assistant? Graham set out to answer this question. After years of obscurity, the stories of women lighthouse keepers have come out of the shadows. "Grand Island Lighthouse keeper and his assistant are believed to be victims of brutal murder and robbery."
Lighthouse keeper riddle cracked#
Inside the cracked and crumbling yellow brick walls of the lighthouse, under the oil cloth on the kitchen table, Loren Graham discovered a yellowing newspaper clipping from the DETROIT FREE PRESS from June 15, 1908. rock cliff on the northwest side of the island in Lake Superior near Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Many believers in the Bermuda Triangle claim that the keepers were two. The lighthouse was built in 1867 and stands on a 200 ft. Great Isaac Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the small Bahamian island of Great Isaac Cay.
Author, Loren Graham, and his wife purchased the Old North Lighthouse on Grand Island in 1972.
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