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Learn more about Plum, Pilot, the US Fish & Wildlife Service and the Life-Saving Service by reading these books:

  • Lighthouses of Lake Michigan, Past and Present – Wayne S. Sapulski

  • Wreck Ashore, U.S. Life-Saving Service Legendary Heroes of the Great Lakes – Frederick Stonehouse

  • The U.S. Life-Saving Service Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard – Ralph Shanks, Wick York, Lisa Wood Shanks

  • Wisconsin Lighthouses, A Photographic and Historical guide, Ken and Barb Wardius

  • Death’s Door, The Pursuit of a Legend, Conan Bryant Eaton

  • A Gleam Across the Wave, The Biography of Martin Nicolai Knudsen Lighthouse Keeper of Lake Michigan – Arthur and Evelyn Knudsen

  • Washington Island Through the Years – Hannes M. Andersen

  • Four Islands: A History of Detroit, Rock, St. Martins, and Washington Islands – Raymond McDonald

  • Great Lakes Lighthouses, American & Canadian, A Comprehensive Directory / Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses – Wes Oleszewski

  • Old Peninsula Days – H.R. Holand

  • Thordarson and Rock Island, Chester Hjortur Hordarson – Richard Purinton

  • Lighthouses & Range Lights of Door County, Wisconsin – Peter Bosman

  • Wooden Boats and Iron Men, History of Commercial Fishing in Northern Lake Michigan & Door County 1850-2005 – Trygvie Jensen

  • Door County’s Islands – Paul and Frances Burton

  • Schooner Days in Door County – Walter M. and Mary K. Hirthe

  • Ships and Shipwrecks in Door County, Wisconsin Volume One – Arthur C. and Lucy F. Frederickson

  • Ships and Shipwrecks in Door County, Wisconsin Volume Two – Arthur C. and Lucy F. Frederickson

  • Shipwrecks at Death’s Door – Cris Kohl and Joan Forsberg

  • Door Peninsula Shipwrecks – Jon Paul Van Harpen

  • Guarding Door County Lighthouses and Life-Saving Stations – Stacy and Virginia Thomas

  • The Naming, The Island Series – Conan Bryant Eaton

  • Door County Tales; Shipwrecks, Cherries and Goats on the Roof – Gayle Soucek

  • Keepers of the Lights, Lighthouse Keepers & Their Families Door County, Wisconsin – 1837 to 1939 – Steven Karges

  • The United States Life-Saving Service – 1880 by J.H. Merryman

  • Life and Death of the Great Lakes - Dan Eagan

  • Bicycling with Butterflies - Sara Dykman

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