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Elinor DeWire
Добавлен 12 фев 2013
Washington Lighthouses & Lightships for Kids
Lighthouse Kitty and her furry friends are the hosts for this fun and educational video for kids of all ages! Schools, scout troops, daycare facilities, youth clubs, and just about any venue for kids can show this video and create lessons and games around it. The topic is the lighthouses and lightships of Washington State. The slides have captions and upbeat music. Each one is timed so that kids can read the text and enjoy the images. Look for more fun lighthouse videos on You Tube from author and educator, Elinor DeWire.
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Lighthouse Lodging
Просмотров 7310 лет назад
A number of old, historic lighthouses around the shores of the United States offer overnight lodging. It's a chance to retrace the footsteps of lighthouse keepers, lodge in a historic building, and relax in a serene setting. This video has a sampling of lighthouses open as vacation rentals, hostels, and B&Bs. Go and spend a night (or two or three or more) under the light! Visit my lighthouse bl...
Get to Know Lighthouses
Просмотров 1,7 тыс.10 лет назад
Lighthouse historian and educator, Elinor DeWire, takes a quick trip around the nation and world to look at lighthouses their purpose, architectural designs, daymarks, optics, fog signals, and more. Where is the tallest lighthouse in the world? The brightest? Why are some tall and some short? What makes the light flash, or not. What were twin lights and triple lights? This video, with modern an...
Make a Paper Cup Lighthouse
Просмотров 68 тыс.11 лет назад
Got a bored kid? Need a scout troop craft or activity for the classroom? Here it is make a paper cup lighthouse. This and other crafts and goodies are available in the "Lighthouse Activity Book," available from Paradise Cay Publications. Have fun!
The Funky Chicken: Memories, Truth & Tribute
Просмотров 11511 лет назад
Chickens they're the new trendy pet! If you love them or if you have a flock of your own, this e-Book is for you. It's chocked full with trivia, folklore, fascinating facts, quotes, poems, stories, nostalgia, and more all about chickens plus the author's memories of growing up in the 1950s and '60s and caring for her mother's flock of Plymouth White Rocks. Find it on Amazon in the Kindle Store....
Lighthouses of Greece by Elinor DeWire and Dolores Pergioudakis
Просмотров 48311 лет назад
"The isles of Greece! The isles of Greece!" proclaimed Lord Byron. Celebrate those fabled isles with this handsome guidebook to the lighthouses that still stand in Greece. This island nation has had lighthouses since Antiquity. About 110 still stand, cared for by the Hellenic navy. Many are accessible to visitors and most can be viewed from sea, traveling on the Greek ferry system, a cruise shi...
Guardians of the Lights, Stories of US. Lightkeepers
Просмотров 20711 лет назад
Lighthouse keeping is an obsolete occupation in the United States and many other countries. This book traces the history of lightkeeping in America, from the first documented Colonial lighthouse at Boston Harbor in 1716 to modern-day automated lighthouses that run by themselves. Historic images, heartwarming stories, storms, shipwrecks, fire, earthquakes, and other catastrophes, lighthouse pets...
Lighthouse Menagerie
Просмотров 11411 лет назад
Lighthouses and lightkeepers of the past had a variety of animals in residence, from pets to livestock to wildlife. Enjoy a historic look at some of the four-footed, furred, feathered, and fun creatures that oncer lived at lighthouses and, in some cases, still do. This movie provides a glimpse into the heartwarming stories and pictures in "The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Ligh...
Pacific Coast Lighthouses
Просмотров 73211 лет назад
A video tour of the lighthouses of California, Oregon, and Washington compliments the travel guidebook, The DeWire Guide to the Lighthouses of the Pacific Coast by Elinor DeWire. The book is available on Amazon and through other booksellers. Travelers and people interested in lighthouses will enjoy this video and find the book a useful travel tool and engaging text.
Lighthouses of Alaska, Hawai'i and the U.S. Pacific Territories
Просмотров 18511 лет назад
The DeWire Guide to the Lighthouses of Alaska, Hawai'i and the U.S. Pacific Territories is published by Paradise Cay and written by Elinor DeWire. It's available on Amazon and other online booksellers, and in stores. For more information visit www.ElinorDeWire.com.
Here's one of my Power Point programs converted to a video for You Tube.
The song, "Wildwood Flower," is by Kevin McCleod of Incompetech. It was one of the first songs I learned to play on guitar as a kid.