Daily Archives: May 19, 2012

Michigan’s lighthouses: State’s oldest to reopen

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Howard Meyerson

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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73-year-old Japanese woman scales Mount Everest, breaks her own record 

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Howard Meyerson

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 →

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