Here is a gift for Joe Offer and Big Mick, and anyone else looking for a REALLY good read.

Elizabeth Whitney Williams grew up on Beaver Island (now a center of Irish culture) in the middle of Lake Michigan. She eventually became the first female lighthouse keeper in the Great Lakes. Her memoir is a real page turner--and it's on-line in its entirety. A link to A child of the sea and life among the Mormons. By Elizabeth Whitney Williams.

--Charlie Baum