epub |eng | 2016-09-15 | Author:Hall, Shawn;

The Brian McAllister is still an active tug working the Chesapeake Bay, owned by McAllister Towing. This venerable and large tug operator is based in New York City with tug ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-16 | Author:James Claflin

The Women’s Exchange, shown here c. 1935, was started in 1918 and sold homemade items, baked goods, antiques, and needlework supplies. It started as a seasonal shop, and the Exchange ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Paul St. Germain

Because the first lighthouse was situated 500 feet too far from the point of the island it was intended to warn against, a new one was ordered. In 1851, construction ...

epub |eng | 2022-08-18 | Author:Mark Kanegis

A sand dollar basks in afternoon sunlight on a rain-dappled beach. They are actually a species of sea urchin that has become extremely flat, which helps them burrow in the ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-15 | Author:Elinor De Wire

The keeper’s children and goat stood by the doorway to Cardona Light Station, Puerto Rico, in a 1916 photo. (Coast Guard Archives) Lightkeeper Henry Rosendale raised Angora goats at Point ...