Episode 24 - Nauset Lighthouse

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 Alright, I'm ready. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000 What's that sound? 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:07,000 I don't know. 4 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Hi everyone. 5 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:09,000 I'm Emily. 6 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:10,000 And I'm Vince. 7 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,000 And this is the Lighthouse Lowdown. 8 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Is this episode 25? 9 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:25,000 24. 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:26,000 24. 11 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:31,000 We did a little, we did, we recorded like four episodes in the past couple weeks. 12 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:36,000 And we think this one should be the first one that comes out. 13 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,000 So this will be episode 24. 14 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,000 And the reason why we want it to come out first is because it's super fun and super cool. 15 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,000 And it's a giveaway episode. 16 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Woo! 17 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 You want to drop the note on that later? 18 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,000 What? 19 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,000 You want to do it now? 20 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:51,000 The giveaway? 21 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Yeah. 22 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Yeah, it's my history buoy. 23 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,000 Oh, okay. 24 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Yeah. 25 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 So we've talked about it, I think, in our last episode. 26 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Captain Cecil's Coffee from Massachusetts. 27 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,000 And it's also where we're going to be heading for our episode today because they gave us 28 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,000 the lighthouse they wanted us to cover. 29 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Nice. 30 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Yeah. 31 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,000 So our giveaway is going to be a bag of their Atlantic ground coffee. 32 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Vince and I are actually trying it today so we can tell you all about it. 33 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,000 And a precursor is that we really like it. 34 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,000 So I don't know, Emily knows more about this. 35 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,000 She's been doing the speaking back and forth with Captain Cecil. 36 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Yeah. 37 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Well, he's a dog. 38 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Captain Cecil is their golden retriever, which I think is adorable. 39 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,000 They named their coffee after their dog, which is spectacular. 40 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,000 But the coffee that we're giving away says that it has an array of chocolate and cranberry notes, 41 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,000 which I'm kind of getting. 42 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,000 There was something unique about the coffee when we were drinking it. 43 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,000 And we're like, this is not like any other coffee that we've had before. 44 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,000 And I think it's the fact that it tastes a little bit like fruit, which I like, 45 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,000 but it's not like fruity flavor. 46 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000 It's not like a floral fruity kind of. 47 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Yeah. 48 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,000 I don't know how to describe it. 49 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:04,000 But then the finish too, like normally coffee leaves a very nasty taste in your mouth, 50 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,000 but this one's very light. 51 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,000 Yeah, this one's really good. 52 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,000 We have a French press. 53 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,000 So that's how we made it this morning. 54 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,000 So I'm drinking out of a mug. 55 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 And it's got a lot of the coffee oils still in it because of the French press. 56 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:17,000 It's very good. 57 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,000 It's earthy. 58 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,000 It's got a sweetness to it. 59 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,000 I didn't add anything. 60 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 I'm just drinking a black, which is rare for me. 61 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Yeah. 62 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:25,000 And it's very good. 63 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,000 I was saying when we first opened the bag, we were really excited. 64 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Oh, it smells so good. 65 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Spectacular. 66 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,000 And I've grown to love the way coffee smells. 67 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:35,000 I remember as a kid, I hated it. 68 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Now, of course, it smells great. 69 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:44,000 But this coffee actually tastes like it smells, which I don't think is true of a lot of cheaper coffees that we get. 70 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000 True. 71 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,000 At our local store. 72 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Just typical coffees, cheap coffees. 73 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,000 So this is something that we were talking about in the car the other day. 74 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,000 This is really good. 75 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,000 This type of coffee, if your mom's going to come visit, this is the type of coffee you want to make. 76 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 You want to whip it out like as a special occasion. 77 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,000 It's so good. 78 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,000 I would drink it all the time. 79 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:09,000 But I just mean, you know, typically I buy cheap coffee, but this is it's really good. 80 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Yeah, it's very good. 81 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:21,000 I was the smell, the smell, especially we opened the box that had our bag and the giveaway bag and it was just like, oh, my God, it is so good. 82 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:22,000 So we're very happy about it. 83 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,000 And we think you will, too. 84 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,000 So you should join our giveaway. 85 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:39,000 And the way that you can do that is you can go to our episode 24 post on Instagram where we'll post pictures of the coffee and also actually, should we do two separate posts? 86 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 One for the coffee, one for the lighthouse. 87 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,000 It's all you. 88 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:43,000 I don't do Instagram. 89 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,000 So I don't know how hard that is. 90 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Let's do two separate posts. 91 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,000 So go to the post where I talk about the coffee. 92 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,000 You'll see the pictures Vince and I took. 93 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Vince and I took some fun little studio session. 94 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,000 We did that. 95 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,000 We had some fun photos of the coffee. 96 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,000 So you'll see that on Instagram. 97 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Just go to that and leave a comment just saying what your favorite lighthouses that we've covered on our podcast. 98 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Or you'll get two entries if you comment a lighthouse that you would like us to cover because the like Chris, when I was talking to him on Instagram, I think it was Chris. 99 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,000 It's probably Chris. 100 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Yeah, Chris is right here. 101 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Yeah, yeah. 102 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,000 But I don't know if he's like got a different social media person. 103 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Maybe it was Captain Cecil himself there with his paws. 104 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Yeah. 105 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:35,000 So Cecil says that he didn't want to impose on us like, oh, no, I won't like suggest a lighthouse for you guys to cover. 106 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,000 But we love that. 107 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:41,000 There's like there's no the amount of lighthouses to cover are basically limitless in our lifetime. 108 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,000 We keep doing this every other week. 109 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:54,000 So like even if you think the lighthouse doesn't have enough history, if you've just saw one while you're driving that you thought looked cool or anything, we want to hear about it because we're trying to cover them all. 110 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000 We know that's impossible, but that's the dream. 111 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:05,000 So please don't be afraid to message us and tell us a lighthouse you want us to cover, which is why you'll get two entries instead of one. 112 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,000 If you give us a lighthouse. 113 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:14,000 However, if you don't really care about that, you get one entry for commenting on our Instagram for which lighthouse we've covered that you like the most. 114 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:23,000 And also, if you don't have an Instagram, you can just email us at the lighthouse lowdown at gmail.com and we'll count that as your entry as well. 115 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Very cool. And then we'll just do a random drawing probably by the next episode. 116 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,000 I was gonna say, what's our time frame? Probably two weeks. End of April then. 117 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Let's see this post in end of April. We'll post on the post. 118 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,000 How about that? What the deadline is? Okay. But Captain Cecil looks like a good old boy. He does. 119 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Why does he look so happy? Because he lives near a lighthouse. 120 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,000 His owner looks like fun. He's out on a walk. 121 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:54,000 I have a brand name after me. So cute. 122 00:05:54,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Okay. So that is our giveaway. Everyone go to our Instagram comment to get your entry in or send us an email and you'll get a free bag of coffee from this small business in Massachusetts. 123 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Really good. Captain Cecil's coffee roasters. Right? Yeah. 124 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:19,000 I love their, we've talked about them before, but their Instagram is awesome. Their website, their photography is good and the coffee is killer. 125 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Very good. Yeah. After Hours is one that they talk about a lot. I think this is a fan favorite for their company and Kingtide. I don't know. I like Atlantic. I think it's good. 126 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:37,000 That's our giveaway. Awesome. So the lighthouse today, so the coffee, Captain Cecil's coffee. 127 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:44,000 They said that they volunteer at Nosset Light Preservation Society. 128 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:55,000 And they're based in the same town as where this lighthouse is located. And so naturally we're going to cover it today. Cool. Is it Mosset? Nosset. Nosset. 129 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:00,000 I'll pull up a picture because it is spectacular. In Massachusetts, I take it. 130 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:10,000 East Ham, Massachusetts. Oh wow. So this lighthouse may look familiar to some of you and I'll talk about that later. 131 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Why you may kind of recognize this lighthouse as an American. 132 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:21,000 So officially it's Nosset Beach Light, but most widely it's called Nosset Light. 133 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:32,000 And I think it's because when it was added to the national. Oh gosh, here we go again. I can't remember what it's called. National Historic List of Historic Register. 134 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:43,000 National Register of Historic Places. Okay. Woo. It was put in as Nosset Beach Light. So I don't know if that's what it's generally called, but I think it's just Nosset Light. 135 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:56,000 It's on Cape Cod National Seashore near East Ham, Massachusetts. Cape Cod. Cape Cod. It's got a white bottom half and a red top half and then a black lantern room and gallery. Classic choices. 136 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:03,000 It's very classic. Yeah, it's like very clean, pleasing to look at and also like a very distinctive day mark. 137 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:10,000 It's a private guide to navigation now, which I think just means that it's not owned by the government. 138 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:20,000 Sounds right. Okay. I'll talk about how it all came to be later in the episode. So maybe it'll shed some light on what that means. I should have just looked it up. 139 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:31,000 But historic private guides navigation. Oh, private guide. I'm like, I've never seen that. So I feel like it just means that it's privately owned and it's still running. 140 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:42,000 I don't know. We'll talk about it later. Do you have a chance a map? I will. I'll pull it up when I'm done with my little intro. Oh, I'm sorry. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. 141 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:52,000 So the light is an alternating red and white light, which I think is fun related to how it looks. Alternating red and white. It's cool. 142 00:08:52,000 --> 00:09:07,000 It currently has a Carlisle and Finch beacon, which they just make marine beacons. It's a cool name. I don't know. Yeah, it seems like they're kind of the go to for modern day. 143 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:22,000 It's like an LED beacon. No, I don't want to go too far into it because it'll take forever. But it's called DCB-224 and it's a double beam rotating light. So there's two lamps facing in opposite directions. 144 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:38,000 And one is red and one is white and it rotates. So that's cool. So let's go into the history. Actually, Nosset Light, like the tower that we're looking at right now is not, it's actually the last of many lights to be on this shore. 145 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:49,000 So we're going to talk about all of them. Wait, towers or? Lighthouses. So they built several? Okay. So the story of Nosset Light begins with the three sisters of Nosset. 146 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:59,000 In 1836, East Ham residents petitioned the Boston Marine Society to ask the US Congress for lighthouses because they were seeing a lot of shipwrecks along Cape Cod. 147 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:12,000 And it was approved and $10,000 were appointed to build a light halfway along the eastern coast of Cape Cod in East Ham. I looked it up and later there's a couple hams. 148 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:30,000 And I don't know, one of them is pronounced like you don't say ham at the end, but this one, it said that you do say ham at the end. So it'd be like Eastam? Yeah, exactly. So I think. But not, this is East Ham. But this one's East Ham, according to pronunciation.com. Of course. 149 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:50,000 That's all I have. So what they built were actually three 15 foot little towers built in a straight line along the cliffs, which 15 is not very tall. And three lights just came out of nowhere. It's like, surely this is not 15 feet. No, no, it's not. 150 00:10:50,000 --> 00:11:04,000 This one came in later. So the original lights were very short and eventually were called the Three Sisters because it looked like little black capped women dressed in white from like the boats. So I have a picture. Let me. 151 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,000 Obviously not great quality of photo. 152 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Because we're talking like mid 1800s. 153 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Of course. 154 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,000 But they just look like little. 155 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Like women with fantastic hats, like little Russian dolls or something. 156 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:29,000 So they were called the Three Sisters, but it's a nice old photo of the originals. It's the only picture I could find. How about that spacing to. I know that is pleasing. 157 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,000 It must have measured that. 158 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,000 That's impressive. There's a photo from that long ago. I know crazy. 159 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:47,000 So 55 years went by and everything was going fine except for that erosion started to catch up to them on this cliff side. Like you can already tell in this photo how close they are. It's a sheer cliff. Yeah. 160 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:53,000 So technology was not advanced enough to move lighthouses at this time. 161 00:11:53,000 --> 00:12:03,000 And so they just built three more wooden towers, just a little bit like slightly larger, but identical to like the original prototypes for these lighthouses. 162 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:12,000 And the lenses from the old lighthouses were moved to the new ones and the original Three Sisters were just left there to eventually fall into the Atlantic. Whoa. 163 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Yeah. They didn't even. Didn't dismantle them. They didn't. Nothing. Just left them there and they eventually fell in. Into the sea. How fitting. I know. It's kind of like pretty cool. 164 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:42,000 By 1911 the sisters were in trouble again. The northernmost only eight feet away from the edge of the cliff. So like somebody could lay down and between them and almost be there. If you had your arms above your head, you'd definitely be touching both. 165 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:54,000 At this time technology had advanced a little bit so they moved the center tower of the three. Oh wait, let me pull up a picture of the second gen. Yeah, gen two. Rev one as we would say. 166 00:12:54,000 --> 00:13:08,000 There we go. Those are the three sisters. Very neat. Yeah. Pleasing to the eye. They moved the center tower back and they attached it, kept it attached to the oil house and they had the two other sisters decommissioned and left them there. 167 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Oh wait no. Didn't leave them there. Sorry. 168 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:25,000 That's a good coffee. I know. The center tower that they moved back took on the name The Beacon and had a light characteristic of three white flashes every ten seconds to honor her sisters. Which I thought was adorable. 169 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:50,000 And the other two towers were broken down and the middle tower The Beacon lived on for another like 10 years. I'd say another decade before it started to fall into disrepair and they also decommissioned it. So third generation revision number two is they get rid of all three and they build or no they move the middle one. 170 00:13:50,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Yeah they move the middle one and they only have one lantern room that's active now and then the other two are decommissioned. Like decommissioned and basically boxed up. In case they're needed again. 171 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Okay cool. Yeah so then The Beacon was given a new light characteristic and hung around for another 20 years before it was time for a new light. So they decommissioned that one as well. Hold on. Boxed it up. What coast is this on that it's so fast eroding. 172 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:33,000 Is that something we're going to talk about or the Mapple show. Because I don't I don't know anything about it. It does seem pretty fast. I mean we're talking 50 years and then 20 years but it still seems quite excessive. Oh this is a bad zone. 173 00:14:33,000 --> 00:15:02,000 NOSET. N-A-U-S-E-T. That's not good. Oh there's a lot of water. Oh Coast Guard Beach. That sounds wicked. Oh NOSET Lighthouse. There it is. There's one of them I guess. High ratings. So it's on a straight and oh it's a spit. I didn't know it was a bay. Cape Cod Bay. It's on the outside of Cape Cod Bay to the Atlantic. 174 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Yeah that's a pretty rough spot. I did not know that this is what it looked like. Thanks for having me look up a picture. Really cool. Yeah. Yeah that'd be a interesting spot. So that's the end of the sisters. And that's where the current tower comes in. And to talk about the current tower we have to go to Chatham Light which. Let's go ahead and pull that up. See how far away it is. I didn't look. Oh not far at all. Just down south. Still on the spit. Nice. 175 00:15:31,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Probably five or six miles. There's one of the lighthouses we're kind of referring to. Chatham Massachusetts. Cool Keepers House. You know very close. I mean you could drive easily between those two. That's nice. I made it easy because we stole a lighthouse from Chatham to move to East Ham. Whoa. To be the new NOSET Light. These are Chatham Lights and they were twin towers. And around this time the board decided that they would decommission one of all twin towers that were 176 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:31,000 twin lights that were proving to be quote unquote useless. You know like an area where it's like OK now we have really good technology. We can put in a brighter light in one tower and get rid of one of the twin towers. So are these for redundancy in case one would fail. Maybe. I feel like it's for double brightness. I feel like it's for for you to recognize it easier. Like you're going to see two beams. All right. Then rather than one maybe light. 177 00:16:31,000 --> 00:17:01,000 There there's like there's the two. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's probably more for recognition. I love this site. This is Chatham. So the little house or shed or whatever that is is the same like roof dimensions as the large house behind it. Oh yeah. That's cool. I really enjoy that. That is an effort into that. They made like a tiny version of the house. Yeah. And then every time you'd be like assuming you're part of this house like I'm going to go to the lighthouse. Which one. Yeah. Is it left or right. 178 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Like lefty and righty. North and south. They had special names differentiated them. That's pretty cool though. Also a very old photo. I know. So I'm sorry I interrupted. They had I'm going to call them redundant lights here for my own comfort. And they decided all twin lights are going to eliminate down to one. As long as they could do that without it sacrificing something about navigation. That's the lighthouse establishment made that call. Lighthouse board. I was bored at this time. OK. 179 00:17:31,000 --> 00:18:01,000 I know. Get it right. So Chatham had these two twin towers the northernmost of which was brought to East Ham to replace the beacon which was the one of the three sisters. It was 50 feet closer. Yeah. So that's what we have today. It was 48 feet tall and made of cast iron and brick. It was dismantled and rebuilt on a cement foundation 200 feet from the cliff edge at Cape Cod. And the beacons fourth order lens was put inside. So they kept that flash pattern for a little while that three flashes for every 10 seconds. 180 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:31,000 In 1876 the Keepers dwelling was moved back as well as the oil house. And so like the house that you see here wasn't was like a couple hundred feet away for a little while. But then they finally moved it back to its original position. I noticed that a lot. Every time they moved they usually had to wait a little while between moving the lighthouse and moving the Keepers house. Yeah. I don't know if it was just for funding or if it just was like we can't do all of that at the same time. But. 181 00:18:31,000 --> 00:19:01,000 It's impressive to be moving all these structures. Yeah. I know it seems very common. I didn't realize that. I know we talked about as Hatteras was the big the big move. Yes. And that's the United States largest lighthouse tallest tallest I think if you're not including lightning rods the tallest active guy. OK. Well it's pretty pretty bang. Pretty bang bang. Pretty bang bang. I don't know what that accent was. I'm sorry. That's coffee. Anyways. 182 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Hatteras was moved and that was well documented. You know and that was what 1900s 1950s 70s late 1900s. It was recently documented we can say compared to lighthouses. Yeah. But I thought that was quite unique. Obviously yes. They have done it many times with not only Keepers houses but towers as well. Lots of lighthouses. I was surprised too because I remember when we talked about Hatteras for the first time I was like like I don't know if I've heard of this anywhere else. 183 00:19:31,000 --> 00:20:01,000 That they moved a lighthouse. But it's like wow it's actually fairly standard that you actually end up having to move lighthouses which makes sense. But also it's news to me that erosion is so prevalent. Yeah. Like you think. I don't know. I don't know what I thought. I'd be interested to talk to somebody. I'm sure they'd be hard to find but we might be able to. That would talk about the mating of that concrete foundation and the tower structure. Yeah. Like on a construction. 184 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Perspective because I assume Hatteras is the same way you build. It sounds like they built the concrete foundation for the tower that was coming. Yeah. And then had to. 185 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:41,000 That's so stressful. What's your job. I worry about my lighthouse. Work with historic buildings that can't be destroyed. I have some comments about that in the future. Next episode. Whoa. Fun. That's coming up. Yep. So back to it. Channel light became known as Nosset beach light or just Nosset light. And in 1940 was when it was painted red on the top half and which was a very 186 00:20:41,000 --> 00:21:03,320 what's to make it a distinctive day mark as well as a night landmark. People love red. We do love red. I'll say it a million times. I love my red lighthouses. Black. Half red is also acceptable. You like the black lantern rooms. You always like it's nice. I don't know why. It's very neat. Yeah. Yeah. It does look it's very regal looking black capped lady. 187 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:08,060 It was automated by the Coast Guard in 1955 and the Keepers House was sold. So that was just as somebody just a house. Yeah. That's awesome. In 1981. So we're going way back or way forward. The Fresno lens was moved to Cape Cod National Seashore Visitors Center and replaced with a modern arrow beacon. And at this time the flash pattern was changed to its current red and white flash. So these are the 188 00:21:33,320 --> 00:22:03,280 three flashes hung around for like 100 years to honor the sisters. Right. Yeah. My now. Huh. I'm so sorry. Arrow. The company is killing it because I've heard that name many times about beacons. Oh no. It's just arrow beacon. It's like a tweet is a type. Yeah. I thought it was a brand that. Yeah. Under Armour beacons. Nike. Beacons. Nike. No. I'm sorry. Arrow beacon is a light assembly used to create a fixed or flashing signal visible for long distances. 189 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:30,920 See what is this. This is a high intensity electric lamp mounted with a focusing device. OK. So just every other lens ever. It just sounds like normal arrow beacon. Sounds like a normal. Well cool. The more you know by now by this time is like 1980s. The surf had eaten away at the cliff edge again. Like unbelievable. Like we're talking 200 feet. It was pushed back and then it's like how long. 190 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:53,880 50 years later and it's like well it's in trouble again. Yeah. High maintenance. Well does. I think we talked about this for Hatteras. Maybe I have a false memory. A spit of land is a. Is it moving like as Cape Cod technically shrinking and moving inland. So these are on the. 191 00:22:53,880 --> 00:23:23,880 Outland side outside of the bay. And so there's actually more land that builds up on the inside of the Cape. And less on the outside. I think you're right about that. It's not that it's eroding away to nothing. It's like all the sands are shifting. It's like the outer banks is shifting. It's not shrinking. Yeah. So I don't know much about a road. Cool. It is pretty cool. So they noticed that it was you know the shoreline was coming in. Yeah. The Coast Guard was just had to stop. 192 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:36,640 And they decided they were just going to let it suffer the fate of the original three sisters. We're just going to let it fall into the Atlantic. And so the Nosset Light Preservation Society was born in I think it was 1990. 193 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:52,720 Yes. 1993. So they were formed in 1993. Stepped in and decided that they were going to save this lighthouse. Oh also 1987 is when it was added to National Register of Historic Places as Nosset Beach Light. So just for reference. 194 00:23:52,720 --> 00:24:10,160 So 1995 the light was decommissioned as an active guide and leased to the society the Nosset Light Preservation Society by the Coast Guard. And at this time the light was only 25 feet away from the water. So it's like it's coming in. The Preservation Society moved the lighthouse on November 16th 1996. 195 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:27,080 336 feet from the edge of the water. And less than a year later they raised enough money to relight the lighthouse as a private guide to navigation. So so technically the Coast Guard still owns it because they're leasing it to the Preservation Society. 196 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:32,400 Yeah. So it can't be that it's not owned by the government for it to be a private guide to navigation. 197 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:40,920 Well let's talk about East Brother Light Station for a second. OK. San Francisco. Right. Yes. San Diego. No San Francisco. 198 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:53,360 Because that is a it's managed privately but it's owned. It's the same situation. It's owned by the U.S. Coast Guard. Is that right. I can't remember the details. I can't remember. 199 00:24:53,360 --> 00:25:06,880 Well we've had this discussion before. So listen to East Brother Light Station Episode 21 maybe. Either way. It sounds like. Yeah. Well it's good that people take care. Citizens will call them to care of things. 200 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:20,280 It's always bad. It's this like Coast Guard obviously are going to be driven by money. They're going to be like OK we're not going to we're not going to keep this lighthouse up if it's if it's if we're going to have to pour this much money into keeping it up. 201 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:27,480 So a lot of times you see civilians coming in joining together to save something that's historically significant really. 202 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:39,360 Just a year after that after their move the current owner of the Keepers House agreed to donate the 1875 house to the National Park Service as long as she could live there for another 25 years. 203 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:51,920 So she technically donated it. She's going to live there for another nice. Yeah. Another 25 years. Because because it was donated they were able to move it across the street to join the lighthouse. 204 00:25:52,360 --> 00:26:00,960 You know how they had moved it back 300 something feet. So finally to move out for her house to move. She's like fine. I'll change my address. 205 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:08,240 What's that line from the Griswold family Christmas. House is always parked in the same place. 206 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:23,920 They are thinking that the lighthouse is safe from erosion for another 30 years. I saw a century but the Preservation Society website says 30 years which is not a lot. 207 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,840 They better round down. Yeah. Yeah that's true. 208 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:31,960 They're going to be on the conservative side. We don't want to have that come out of nowhere. They run entirely on donations. 209 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:41,640 So I'm going to link their page in our show notes so people can take a look at it. And it's like you can donate but you can also join like as a member. 210 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:47,960 The US LHS has this as well where you can join as a member and get some perks and stuff to go along with that. So it's kind of fun. 211 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:55,720 In 2004 the Nosset Light Preservation Society signed a partnership agreement with the National Park Service who now runs the light. 212 00:26:55,720 --> 00:27:05,960 Okay. Okay. What. I just don't know. I got an eyebrow furrow. It's hard to figure out. Like it's leased. 213 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:18,840 It's leased by the Coast Guard to Nosset Light but now the National Park Service runs the light. So how do they come into this lease and does the lease mean that they own it now. 214 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:23,320 It's a shell game. It's convoluted. I could ask. It's actually a money laundering activity I'm sure. 215 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,600 Stop. National parks are getting into the cash. 216 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:35,800 You know what I got excited about is that if the National Park Service owns or runs a slide house basically it has a partnership with this light house. 217 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:45,400 They definitely have like a sew on patch for the slide house or a pin. You know how they sell those for national parks is like pins or like stickers. 218 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:50,920 Have we shared that with our listeners. You talked about your book and your passport book and patches. 219 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:57,800 I don't think so. Let's cover that maybe next episode. Yeah. Yeah. I'll get it all together. But not to cut you off. 220 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:07,080 But I think if you're interested in lighthouses there is just a bajillion fun things you can do surrounding them especially that'll get you out there to visit lighthouses. 221 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:14,840 I know I am motivated. Yeah. To see lighthouses. She went with a broken foot. Oh yeah. Nothing could stop me from going on that trip. 222 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:22,040 I didn't know. I was just like can I fly and she was like oh I would take some blood thinners just in case. 223 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:28,200 And I was like screw that I don't go on vacation. Can I walk on the beach and collect shells. She's like with your broken foot. 224 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:34,440 How are you going to get there. It's like by whatever means necessary. So well I think we should cover that as its own episode. 225 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:43,320 Oh just the joys of traveling. Yeah. The short short story as we bought three scooters. Two. Yeah. Three. 226 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:54,840 Two scooters and two sets of crutches. To get her there. Yes. One of them was an all terrain scooter that we're not sponsored by but knee Rover was the MVP. 227 00:28:54,840 --> 00:29:02,040 Yeah. Anyways I'm sorry to interrupt once again. You said the national parks are involved with this lighthouse. Yes. 228 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:07,560 Therefore patches. What else. Pins stickers exciting. What do you mean what else. 229 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:16,600 I just throw off the whole. Oh me and my caffeine. Captain Seasols is doing the most today. Yeah. They're taking care of business. 230 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:22,680 So you can tour this lighthouse on Sundays May through October and also on Wednesdays in July through August. 231 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:31,720 So they're closed for the winter months and then open in May to October. Cape Cod is pretty brutal in the winter. I've heard. 232 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:42,440 Yeah it looks like really bad to be on a little jut of land out there is always going to be. I mean the wind alone is going to be just spectacular. 233 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:53,480 OK. That's it for the. But I will say this lighthouse may be recognizable by people which is what I said the beginning because it's kind of the face of Cape Cod. 234 00:29:53,480 --> 00:30:01,640 Like you may. I'm pretty sure there's a Cape Cod lighthouse. I'm sure there's several. I mean called the Cape. OK. Oh no there isn't. 235 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:12,760 OK. Never mind. OK. Oh no. Oh yes. There is a Highland light which says also known as Cape Cod light. You must be using Bing. 236 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:21,000 I'm on Google. Well a close friend of ours took a trip to Cape Cod and told me we're out playing pool or something. 237 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:26,360 He told me about there's a lot of lighthouses a lot of good food a lot of beautiful sites. So I told you this. 238 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:32,280 I don't know if they want us to talk about them on the air but the redhead gentleman is tall. 239 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:44,360 I don't know. Oh redhead. Yeah I don't know. OK. Cut all that out. 240 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:53,080 OK. For one hundred dollars every two years you can get a license plate with this lighthouse on it and the money goes towards the light and local organizations of Cape Cod. 241 00:30:53,080 --> 00:31:00,120 So it's kind of like it's a special edition of Massachusetts. Yeah. And also. 242 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:10,360 Paws for effect. Cape Cod potato chips. I've seen those. I bought those. We have had. Oh that's the lighthouse. 243 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:17,480 There it is. I'm glad there's an actual lighthouse that exists on based on and it's fairly accurate. 244 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:26,600 Yes I know. Even the Keepers House they kept the same colors like it would be more aesthetically pleasing for you to make it like a white Keepers House or something. 245 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:33,480 But they kept it the original colors which I enjoy a lot. The oceans blue and everything. 246 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:39,880 So that is where you may have seen it before. This is pretty. Do you know anything about this company. 247 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:47,480 Yes actually I didn't write a whole bunch of notes on them but you can go to a Wikipedia page it has all the information about how this started. 248 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:55,080 Also that their business boomed because someone ran a car into their storefront and so they were all over the news about it. 249 00:31:55,080 --> 00:32:00,280 And so people started buying their potato chips. No presses. Bad press. An inside job. 250 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:04,760 Maybe that's what we should do. We should have someone run into our studio the riprap studio with a car. 251 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:11,640 It's like people that it sounds like an insurance fraud like setting your house on fire for the insurance. 252 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:18,680 Yeah. Oh my gosh. OK we won't do that. But this company was started in 1980 in Massachusetts. 253 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:26,600 So they were taking imagery from their local lighthouse and it's now owned by Campbell's Soup Company. 254 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:32,520 So that was that was a recent acquisition. I don't remember what year it was but it was it was recently. 255 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:36,680 Yeah well I know I've bought those before. We have we have had them here before. 256 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,280 And that's not something I thought about like this just fell into our laps from Captain Cecil's. 257 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:45,000 So cool kind of fun fun thing. So a side question. Yeah. 258 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:51,720 If if someone were to go visit Cape Cod what is it typical you'd fly into Boston assuming you're far away. 259 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,800 We're in Kansas City. You fly into Boston and then drive out. 260 00:32:55,800 --> 00:33:06,040 Or I saw that's a big city nearby. I would assume that you'd fly into Boston and then maybe there's a ferry that goes from Boston to across the Cape Cod. 261 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:10,280 There's obviously we saw those roadways. Yes you can drive but I would hope. 262 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:14,680 I don't know anything about that area. That might be too long of a way to have a ferry. 263 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:19,000 We don't know anything. We're landlocked. We're Kansas. We're in Kansas. 264 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:23,560 Our closest lighthouse is at a par three golf course. Oh yeah. 265 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:28,040 Rip. That's not there. Rip in peace. So you may be asking. 266 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:36,920 Now that we've covered Nosset light. What was the final fate of Rev 2 Three Sisters of Nosset? 267 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:40,920 And I'm going to tell you. Here they are. Cool. 268 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:47,000 Oh the lantern rooms are gone. Oh I didn't even notice that. 269 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,040 Just like Triangle left. The Beacon's the only one that has her light left. 270 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:56,680 Okay so after being decommissioned the North and South light were sold at an auction for $3.50. 271 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,640 Goodbye. To the Cummings family who fixed them up 272 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:06,920 and turned them into a summer cottage called the Twin Lights cottage. So they had a second life. 273 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:09,960 These buildings we're looking at. Yeah. 274 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,560 You can stay in them. No. 275 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,240 That you could when they were purchased a while ago. 276 00:34:15,240 --> 00:34:17,240 Okay. But then they were sold to the 277 00:34:17,240 --> 00:34:22,120 National Park Service in 1965 and probably put on. Oh yeah. 278 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,480 National and then put on the register of historic places. 279 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,240 See those plaques right there. It's how you know. 280 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:31,720 Yep. Yep. Tour walking. Tour walking. 281 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:40,360 I don't know what's happening. I want the final two bullet points of my episode. So I'm like whoo. 282 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,480 Coffee is absolutely a drug. 283 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:54,120 So after the Beacon was replaced by the current Nosseth light it was sold to Albert Hall for $10 284 00:34:55,240 --> 00:35:00,360 who used it as an add-on to his house until the National Park Service came after. I'm just kidding. 285 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:05,080 Bought it from him in 1975. Hopefully it went up a couple dollars. 286 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:09,080 Only yeah. I wonder how much they paid for it. I'm interested to know. 287 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,080 You know $3 to $10 that's a pretty good percentage rise. 288 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:17,320 Well $3.50 was for the two. $10 for the Beacon. 289 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:25,320 So I'm sorry you said the Beacons both of these that are now missing are at the Cape Cod Museum. 290 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,880 No this is their final location. They were finally listed on the National 291 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:34,360 Register of Historic Places renovated to their former glory and placed in their original 292 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:40,840 configuration. Three sisters once again reunited and you can now visit and tour them all in 293 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,600 Massachusetts. Let me see. Cool. Let me see where it is. That'd be fun. 294 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:51,960 It's a beautiful park I'm guessing area where it's at. Oh they're very close to Nosseth lighthouse. 295 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,480 Oh yeah. It's like walking distance. 500 feet. 296 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:01,320 French keyboard. Yeah they figured they hadn't moved them a couple times so. 297 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:06,840 Yeah might as well put them back in their home. Yeah well that's cool. It's a beautiful area. 298 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:13,000 Yeah so we talked about five lighthouses in this episode. Very highly rated on Google. 299 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,120 Yeah. 4.3 stars. 238 ratings. That's the stuff. 300 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:22,840 And that's what I have for Nosset light or Nosset beach light. Cool. It'd be fun if I don't know if 301 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:29,080 you'd be open to it or not but to talk more to not Captain Cecil but his owner. Chris. Chris. 302 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:35,400 I was like not Craig sorry. Chris about his experience and volunteering with the preservation 303 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:41,160 society. Yeah that would be cool. But yeah that's the episode. Everyone enter our giveaway. 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