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Howard Meyerson
After more than 25 years in the outdoor writing business, you would think I'd know better.
Daily Archives: May 19, 2012
Michigan’s lighthouses: State’s oldest to reopen
Fort Gratiot Light, the second-oldest lighthouse on the Great Lakes, after Ohio’s Marblehead Light on Lake Erie, is being reopened today, the Detroit Free Press reports. About 1,000 people are expected at the public event at the mouth of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Fort Gratiot Light, Great Lakes, Lake St. Clair, Lighthouses
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73-year-old Japanese woman scales Mount Everest, breaks her own record
A feel good story if ever there was one. It gives this aging outdoor writer hope. Tamae Watanabe reached Everest’s 8,850-meter-high (29,035-foot-high) summit from the northern side of the mountain in Tibet on Saturday morning, the New York Daily News … Continue reading
