Lighthouse Families

by Cheryl Shelton-Roberts, Bruce Roberts

Overview

What was it like to live and work at a lighthouse during the heyday of shipping and fishing? How did lighthouse keepers and their families stationed on remote islands while away the long, cold, lonely hours between trips to the mainland for food and supplies? Here you'll find a record of the charming memories and stories of America's lighthouse keepers, including descriptions of daily life at a lighthouse.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781561646319
Publisher:	Pineapple Press, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2013
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Cheryl Shelton-Roberts taught school in North Carolina and Virginia for twenty years before retiring to work alongside husband Bruce, traveling the country to collect lighthouse stories and producing books about them.

Bruce Roberts, a former director of photography and senior photographer for Southern Living magazine, began his photojournalism career at The Tampa Tribune. Bruce's photographs have appeared in Sports Illustrated, Time, Life, and Time Life Books. Bruce has won numerous international, national, and state awards, and some of his photographs are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Bruce and his wife, Cheryl Shelton-Roberts, coauthored the best-selling Lighthouse Families. Bruce and Cheryl live in Morehead City, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

1. Point Arena Lighthouse: California
2. Cape Hatteras Lighthouse: North Carolina
3. Passage Island Light Station: Michigan
4. St. Augustine Lighthouse: Florida
5. Cape Flattery Light Station: Washington
6. Huron Island Light Station and Old Mackinac Point Light Station: Michigan
7. Croatan River Light and Long Shoal River Light: North Carolina
8. Point Reyes Light Station and Pigeon Point Light Station: California
9. Morris Island/Charleston Light Station: South Carolina
10. Saddleback Ledge Light Station and Tenants Harbor Light Station: Maine
11. Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station: Florida
12. Bodie Island Lighthouse: North Carolina
13. Outer Island Light Station: Wisconsin

Editorial Reviews

From the previous edition:
"America has a love affair with lighthouses. In an age of satellites and computers, lighthouses have been relegated to serving as monuments of bygone times, but tourists still flock to them, wondering what life must have been like for those long-since-departed keepers. In their first collaboration, Shelton-Roberts and her husband, a lighthouse historian and photographer, offer readers a chance to have that solitary experience vicariously in this collection of stories by people who grew up in a "lighthouse family." The lighthouses covered here are found throughout the United States, but the experiences and hardships faced by their families are similar in many respects. The authors have done an admirable job of gathering together in one volume the stories of these lighthouse "children." They even offer readers a chance to experience one aspect of their spartan lives: each has contributed a favorite family recipe. This belongs on the shelves of every public library." —Joseph L. Carlson, Vandenberg AFB Lib., Cal., " Library Journal
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Lighthouse Families is the winner of the 2006 Foundation for Coast Guard History Book Award in the Lighthouse History category. The judges called it "a refreshing look at lighthouse history, covering a specific aspect of lighthouse life usually reserved for add-on chapters in books on the general topic.” —Foundation for Coast Guard History

From the Publisher

America has a love affair with lighthouses. In an age of satellites and computers, lighthouses have been relegated to serving as monuments of bygone times, but tourists still flock to them, wondering what life must have been like for those long-since-departed keepers. In their first collaboration, Shelton-Roberts and her husband, a lighthouse historian and photographer, offer readers a chance to have that solitary experience vicariously in this collection of stories by people who grew up in a "lighthouse family." The lighthouses covered here are found throughout the United States, but the experiences and hardships faced by their families are similar in many respects. The authors have done an admirable job of gathering together in one volume the stories of these lighthouse "children." They even offer readers a chance to experience one aspect of their spartan lives: each has contributed a favorite family recipe. This belongs on the shelves of every public library.Joseph L. Carlson, Vandenberg AFB Lib., Cal.

Library Journal