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.
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