“Lighthouses of the Great Lakes: An Architect’s Sketchbook”: by Jim Lammers (Oro Editions, $24.95) This seems to be lighthouse summer, thanks to Peter Geye’s “A Lesser Light,” set in a ...

By the early 1700s, Boston was Britain's busiest North American port, ... After the British troops occupied the lighthouse in 1774, Colonial forces set fire to its wooden parts three times.

They discuss 11 areas, ranging from the North Shore to sand dunes, dry hill prairie, river ravine in the Driftless and ditches/roadsides. They introduce readers to Sticky False Asphodel, Ghost ...