The Clock Mechanism - A Fact

While writing “The Wickie,” I deliberately chose several pictures to use in the book. I felt pictures would help my readers enjoy the story, learn, and have a better feel of the times. After selecting a publisher and we began communicating details of the book, I learned pictures are normally not used in fiction books. However, the company conceded to using my pictures, and I approved the higher cost to publish. 

Several times in my book, the lighthouse keepers refer to a clock mechanism. The photo below is one of several photos used in the story. Although the genre for “The Wickie” is fiction, there are several historical facts weaved into the story. One of those facts is the clock mechanism.

Where The River Meets The Pacific

In my book, The Wickie, discover the challenges lighthouse keepers and their families met but never expected, and their determination to maintain navigational aid to mariners on the Oregon coast. Learn about the keeper’s lives while having your emotions stirred. See friendships develop and a family formed. See how love and determination prevail through hardships, and how the light from one individual’s life affects others. I hope you’ll enjoy reading this 1860’s story about two lighthouses of the same name.

 

One scene in the book has the head keeper talking to his assistant in the watch room near the top of the new lighthouse. The head keeper looks out the window toward the Pacific Ocean and remarks: “I can see both the ocean and the mouth of the river from here.”

I can’t reproduce the view the head keeper described in my book, but hopefully my pictures below will help you imagine what he saw from the window of the new Umpqua River Lighthouse. (Imagine without the breakwater.) Click on the picture to enlarge it for a better view.