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About the Book

SEUL CHOIX (pronounced "SIS-SHWA") LIGHT HOUSE and its keepers have kept watch over northern Lake Michigan on Michigan's Upper Peninsula since 1895. This is a partially fictionalized story of one family who lived and worked there in the late 1930s.

BOOK REVIEW

A fascinating work . . . traces the authentic background history of Seul Choix Point Lighthouse and surrounding area. This sensitive characterization of the keeper's families helps you understand what life was really like, living at a remote light station.

It is an outstanding example of the spirit of lighthouse keeping on the upper Great Lakes.

-Marilyn S. Fischer, president
Gulliver Historical Society

About the Author

Diane Reeder Elcoate is a native of the Great Lakes area. Born in Rochester, New York, where emigrant great grand parents settled from Scotland and Germany. Her family later moved to Michigan.

A former English and History teacher, she was previously published in Michigan Natural Resources Magazine with a story of a trek through the Porcupine Mountains State park, titled, "I Know a River." She is a tour guide at Seul Choix Point Lighthouse.