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official record says that the surfboat was launched at 12:15 on Saturday
morning, April 17th, 1880. The snow had stopped, but the night was
sackcloth dark and the winds continued to scream insanely. In the
entire area, the only illumination was a giant bonfire that had been
kept burning on the beach. As the storm warriors shoved off into the
raging surf and inky blackness of the howling night a single shouted
order was heard above the rage of mighty Lake Huron, "Give wayyyy!"
Keeper Chute commanded as his fearless crew of professional life-savers
took to their oars. |
A breaker was split by the bow of the
surfboat, and then another, and then the surfboat was swallowed by
the darkness of the night. All that was visible were the incoming
graybeards of the rolling surf and all that could be heard was the
roar of the angry lake. On the beach the hundreds of on-lookers held
their collective breath as all that could be witnessed was the stormy
void of the black night. The brave surfmen had rowed out into the
teeth of the powerful lake without a single moment of hesitation,
and whether or not they would ever return, only Lake Huron knew.
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 The
preceding text is only a sliver of the courage and terror that will
be found in the pages of “Keepers of Valor, Lakes of Vengeance”, author
Wes Oleszewski’s newest narrative of the true stories of Great Lakes
maritime adventure. As in all of his books, the author takes the reader
back in time to witness, in detail, events and true adventures gone
by. From lighthouses to life-saving stations to leaky wooden lakeboats
the readers will skip from one era to another and experience history
as it happened. |
 Readers
will discover the long lost story of a forgotten schooner that was
swallowed by the passing of time as well as the lake. Discovery will
be the reward when reading the tale of the determined lady of the
lakes who stepped from the ranks of passengers to take command of
a wayward lake vessel in 1878. There will also be the view of a howling
lake storm as seen from the watchroom of a Great Lakes lighthouse.
In one of the many highlights of this book, the author details an
1880s shipwreck and the response of the local life-savers, he then
takes those exact circumstances and gives the data to the modern keepers
of valor in the United States Coast Guard, and then documents their
respire to the shipwreck allowing the reader to see a direct comparison
between the past and the present. In all, there are 17 chapters of
true adventures of the Great Lakes. |
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“Keepers
of Valor” is Wes Oleszewski’s longest book to date at 252 pages
and more than 107,000 words in length. No matter if the reader is
a shipwreck buff, lighthouse person, history enthusiast, or simply
a recreational reader, everyone will enjoy the up-lifting sagas
of the keepers of valor.
