Episode 39 - St. Augustine Lighthouse

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Hi everybody, I'm Vincent. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,000 And I'm Emily. 3 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,500 You're listening to the Lighthouse Lowdown. 4 00:00:06,500 --> 00:00:17,000 I would have gotten a lot of flack for that if I had not hit it on time. 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:18,000 It was close. 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:19,000 I don't think so. 7 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,000 When I edit, I realize I pick on you every single time. 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Even when you did it right. 9 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,000 I was like, that was kind of close. 10 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,000 A little picking. 11 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,000 So, welcome to the episode. 12 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,000 I prepared this, and then the day I was going to present it, I did not. 13 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,000 So we're all going to go on this ride together. 14 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:39,000 What are you talking about? 15 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,000 The day I was going to present this episode. 16 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,000 I was all prepared to go. 17 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,000 I didn't do it that day, so now we're starting cold. 18 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Oh, I see. It was like a while ago? 19 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,000 No, it was a couple days ago. 20 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:51,000 But we're good. 21 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,000 I've got a couple of things to show you, including a video. 22 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,000 So we'll see how the TV works and all that. 23 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,000 Thank you everyone for joining us. 24 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Do you have history buoy? 25 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,000 I do. 26 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:06,000 My history buoy for today is clocks. 27 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,000 Clocks. 28 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Is this nautical themed clocks? 29 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Specifically, United States Lighthouse Service clocks. 30 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Okay. 31 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:14,000 So, I'm going to start off. 32 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,000 I'm already on board. 33 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,000 There's a lot of different clocks used in lighthouses over the years. 34 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,000 I'm going to cover the most prevalent from my research. 35 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,000 So, they were made mainly by three different manufacturers. 36 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,000 So, we're talking US based, right? 37 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Because US Lighthouse Service. 38 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Otherwise, you can get way carried away. 39 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Yeah. 40 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Three manufacturers. 41 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,000 And did you? 42 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:34,000 No. 43 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Oh, good. 44 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,000 I tried not to. 45 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,000 Seth Thomas, Chelsea Clock Company, and E. Howard Company. 46 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,000 So, here's two images of brass clocks. 47 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,000 They're a little blown up, as you can tell. 48 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,000 They're early 2000s images. 49 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,000 Yeah. 50 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:53,000 So, used to keep time at stations, light ships. 51 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000 So, you know, what are they called? 52 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Yeah, light ships, right? 53 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Lighthouse tenders. 54 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Light ships and lighthouse tenders. 55 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Make sure, wow. 56 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,000 Caffeine is really coming for me. 57 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,000 So, they're significant. 58 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Timekeeping in lighthouse. 59 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Lighthouse keepers life is very significant. 60 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Because they're looking at flashing pattern. 61 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Making sure that's right. 62 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:17,000 After it's set up. 63 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Making sure it's consistent. 64 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000 They're looking at fueling. 65 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,000 And they're noting time of significant events in their log books. 66 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:31,000 And like, if you have to rewind the clockwork mechanism and everything, 67 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 that's all based on passing time. 68 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,000 When they're coming in, when they're going from service, 69 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:41,000 they note the time in the log book, as well as vessel sightings or storms, 70 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,000 anything like that. 71 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,000 You've got to have reliable clocks. 72 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Yeah. 73 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000 They have to be very high quality. 74 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,000 They have to be seaworthy, if you will. 75 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:53,000 So, typically you'd have a small round brass clock that's mounted on a 76 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,000 lighthouse wall or lighthouse vessel. 77 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 And they're also used in the tower. 78 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Sometimes they had larger clocks that were in the lighthouse keepers house. 79 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Like, they have very ornate ones that are pendulum style. 80 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 But this is the most practical. 81 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000 And it was a wound clock. 82 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Why brass? 83 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Because of, and this is still true today in like nautical construction. 84 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Because of its resistance to rusting, especially with saltwater spray. 85 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Nice. 86 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Yeah, on a ship, that would be important. 87 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 So, most often they were made by, the largest quantity of them was by a 88 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 company in Boston, Massachusetts. 89 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,000 This is the Chelsea Company we mentioned. 90 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,000 So, Chelsea Cloud Company. 91 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000 And they're still in business today. 92 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Cool. 93 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Wow. 94 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,000 So, this is a snap from their website. 95 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Very fancy. 96 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Very expensive. 97 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,000 They should have ship bells. 98 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,000 All the ship bells. 99 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Look at the cost. 100 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Why? 101 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Yep. 102 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Anywhere from $1,200 to $6,100 for these clocks. 103 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,000 And these are all decorative. 104 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 So, they're probably still very high quality. 105 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000 But they've gotten a little ornate. 106 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 And you can see on the left, they've got a bunch of collections. 107 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Yeah. 108 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 They're like gifts under $300. 109 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Yeah. 110 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,000 If you go to Target, it's gifts under $10. 111 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Yeah. 112 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,000 So, I think I have one more image. 113 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,000 No, I don't. 114 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,000 Ignore that. 115 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:23,000 I'm not looking. 116 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000 All right. 117 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Sometimes they have pendulum clocks, like I talked about. 118 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,000 The other type. 119 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Like grandfather clocks or just... 120 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Or even like small grandfather, just like on the wall mounted. 121 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 And then the other type that's really popular. 122 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,000 I didn't add an image, but there's lots of images. 123 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Pocket watches. 124 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Small pocket watches were really big with lighthouse keepers. 125 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Most of them have US LHS engraved on them. 126 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Pretty cool. 127 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Very collectible today. 128 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,000 I want one of those. 129 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,000 So, those are usually bought from a vendor. 130 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:55,000 So, they weren't made by three companies like most of these clocks were. 131 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Yeah. 132 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:57,000 That's my lighthouse, boy. 133 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:58,000 It's clocks. 134 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Nice. 135 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:05,000 And you mentioned eight days once recently in an episode. 136 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,000 It's going to come up again in this episode. 137 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Eight days is significant for several reasons, but these are eight day clocks as well. 138 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Cool. 139 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,000 So, most of the clocks were... 140 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,000 Wait, what does that mean? 141 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,000 You'd wind them every eight days. 142 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,000 Or really every week you'd wind them, but I had eight days of runtime. 143 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,000 I forgot you had to wind old clocks. 144 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Yeah, no electricity to them. 145 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,000 So, like the holes in the face of the clock there on the top left. 146 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:34,000 You put a key in, a round key, and then you wind it, which is the same as like a grandfather clock. 147 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,000 So, what do they do with their watches? 148 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:37,000 They wound their watches? 149 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Yeah. 150 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Watches. 151 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,000 What? 152 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,000 As well, watches. 153 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,000 I don't think they last eight days. 154 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:43,000 I doubt it. 155 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Like pocket watches and even some nice... 156 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,000 How could I have not known this? 157 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Like nice wrist watches. 158 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,000 The bezel on it, like I have an Apple watch I'm holding up. 159 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,000 You don't wind this, but it's the same idea. 160 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:53,000 Yeah. 161 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:57,000 The bezel, you can actually pull them out and wind it, and it actually charges a spring 162 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,000 that charges... 163 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,000 It twists a spring. 164 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Oh, it twists tension. 165 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,000 And then someone who knows... 166 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Yeah. 167 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Someone who knows better than I can explain watch work. 168 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 There's different types of movements. 169 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Interesting. 170 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Yeah. 171 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:15,000 They have some, I wish I had included another picture on like Patriot collection or nautical 172 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:20,000 clocks that are like black metal and they have a swinging face on them. 173 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,000 So, like it covers it. 174 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,000 Yeah. 175 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Like that aren't quite as ornate, but they're still a thousand dollars. 176 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 I want to see nautical clock collection. 177 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,000 I'm going to pull it up. 178 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:33,000 See Patriot collection, like that style where it's got this like the face, like a porthole 179 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,000 face, nautical clocks. 180 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Yeah. 181 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,000 That's perfect. 182 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Well, I was wrong. 183 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:39,000 320 bucks. 184 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:40,000 That's almost... 185 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,000 I think it's cool. 186 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,000 That almost goes under gifts under $300. 187 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,000 250. 188 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,000 There you go. 189 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Keeps going. 190 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,000 I like those navy ones. 191 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Those are cool. 192 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Yeah. 193 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,000 These don't look very nautical to me. 194 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:56,000 I was expecting like, you know, with how expensive they are, they can't really make them. 195 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,000 I'm thinking tacky nautical. 196 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,000 And I think that just wouldn't fly with... 197 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,000 I don't think that's their target. 198 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:07,000 But like, I really do enjoy this 24 hour clock, which is cool. 199 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,000 They have a 12 hour standard and then 24 hour. 200 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:14,000 And it's like black dial, white face. 201 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Little crescent moon. 202 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Yeah. 203 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:17,000 It's just classy. 204 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,000 It looks tough. 205 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Like, I like this, I don't know what to call it, porthole, right? 206 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Like a window. 207 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,000 I want to see what's behind it. 208 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:28,000 Inspired by Chelsea's World War II Navy engine room. 209 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:29,000 I would love one. 210 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:37,000 If anybody at Chelsea Clock Company wants to sponsor the lighthouse lowdown or Seth Thomas 211 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,000 or E Howard Company, if you're still around, let us know. 212 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,000 I know Chelsea is though. 213 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,000 And I was drawn to this website. 214 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Well, cool history, Bowie. 215 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Thank you. 216 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,000 A little different. 217 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,000 I've had that one in my pocket for a long time. 218 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Awful. 219 00:07:53,000 --> 00:08:00,000 But yeah, so today's I'm just going to jump into it. 220 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,000 OK. 221 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Today, first I'm going to tell you about the location, the town we're in, which is not labeled 222 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,000 on this image. 223 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Oh, so colorful. 224 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,000 Lighthouse back there. 225 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Oh, St. Augustine, Florida. 226 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Oh, yes. 227 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 Also known as Florida. 228 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:21,000 So this is what the one if anyone listened to our lighthouse cocktail episode, this is 229 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:27,000 what my wine gift was modeled after, which I have right here. 230 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Oh, very nice. 231 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,000 I'm going to put that on the table. 232 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,000 That opened. 233 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,000 This is an open. 234 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,000 I'm going to talk about it later on. 235 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,000 OK. 236 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,000 For the moment, I'm just going to set it down. 237 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 You can hear the nice. 238 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:42,000 I thought it was going to be more like a clink and not so much like a thump. 239 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,000 So I don't remember which slides I have. 240 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,000 So we're going to go through that together. 241 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,000 So we're just living. 242 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,000 Yeah, but we're just living. 243 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:54,000 So St. Augustine, Florida is on the northeast coast of Florida on the water. 244 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,000 OK, it is about 45 minutes from Jacksonville South. 245 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,000 So Jacksonville is the largest city that's nearby. 246 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Orlando is not far. 247 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,000 I want to say an hour, hour and a half, maybe. 248 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,000 It is technically America's oldest city. 249 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Oh, my. 250 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:15,000 It's founded in September of 1565 by Spanish explorers in Florida. 251 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,000 I believe in their Spanish pronunciation is the land of flowers. 252 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 So state of Florida today. 253 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,000 Cool. 254 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:30,000 It's the oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in what is now the contiguous United States. 255 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,000 OK, United States. 256 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:40,000 So it's you could say the oldest town is Native American developments, of course, but the oldest English Western settled. 257 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:45,000 So there is a lot of history for that reason in St. Augustine. 258 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,000 It's a really cool little town. 259 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Do they have like ruins like cool? 260 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Yes. 261 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:57,000 There's a fort, there's ruins, there's an old town, there's a college that used to be a hotel. 262 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,000 It's like all in one building. 263 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,000 It's beautiful. 264 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,000 We're going to we're going to talk about it. 265 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,000 OK, there's only like 15000 residents is what the Internet. 266 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:08,000 I was really surprised given this image of like so much traffic going on. 267 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:14,000 That is an island and I can't it technically it might be a different city like township. 268 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,000 This bridge is kind of neat. 269 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,000 I'm kind of going on tangents. 270 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 I got coffee and me the bridge. 271 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:23,000 I want to say it's the Lions Gate or Gate of Lion. 272 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:34,000 I can't remember if there's two lions that are marble statue that are on the end of the bridge that are modeled after the Medici lions, which are in Italy. 273 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:35,000 What are those? 274 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:47,000 And we saw copies of the Medici lions in Sweden in front of the palace made of bronze and so copies like that's what they look like except in stone. 275 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Yep. 276 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,000 I want to say marble, but the original Medici. 277 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,000 So I went on a tangent. 278 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,000 It took me an hour, hour and a half. 279 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:05,000 The original Medici lions are carved in stone. One was a long time ago and the other was made as a as a partner to it. 280 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,000 Also, like maybe 1700s. 281 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:15,000 And so they're very old and they're at the Medici family residence, which is in Italy. 282 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,000 I think in Florence. 283 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:21,000 Yeah, I would go on a tangent, too, if it had something to do with like old art for some reason. 284 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Sculptures and like statues and stuff. 285 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,000 I really like them. Yeah. 286 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,000 It's the lion that has its paw on a globe or on a ball. 287 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,000 It's an orb contested of what it actually is. 288 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Oh, there's there's some drama. 289 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,000 So there's two copies here. 290 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,000 There's copies all over the world. 291 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,000 But I thought that was kind of fun. 292 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Cool. 293 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,000 I would really like to visit St. Augustine and you're going to see why. 294 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Now you're really interested. 295 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,000 Wow. 296 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Mm hmm. 297 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000 There's the old town kind of a market. 298 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000 I see ice cream on the left. 299 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,000 That's where I should have my macaron shop. 300 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Shop on the right. 301 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:01,000 You can sell macarons there with some humidity like it's Florida. 302 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 So there's been hurricanes here and there. 303 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 So it is what it is. 304 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,000 This is the lighthouse itself. 305 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:15,000 So the first thing that drew me to this lighthouse was actually their website. 306 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,000 I think I found it's not expecting. 307 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:24,000 I was wondering if I should interrupt and throw a guess out there for what actually drew you to this lighthouse. 308 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000 And I never would have guessed. 309 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Well, their website is really good. 310 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 And I'll we'll talk about it. 311 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 But there's the wine bottle. 312 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:37,000 So I was in Orlando, Florida, visiting a friend of mine, Jackson, that you know well. 313 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Now he lives here. 314 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,000 But when he lived in, I was Tampa. 315 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,000 He lived in Orlando before Tampa. 316 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,000 But in Tampa, we went to Publix and they had this bottle of wine. 317 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:47,000 He's like, you got to see this. 318 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,000 I didn't know anything about it. 319 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:55,000 It is a lighthouse shaped glass, which is modeled exactly after the St. Augustine lighthouse. 320 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,000 I'm going to talk all about the winery as well. 321 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,000 But so that led me to the website. 322 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,000 And here we are because their website is awesome. 323 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,000 And I'm actually going to show it to you. 324 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,000 So there's a lot to see. 325 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,000 I recommend you go and click around on your own. 326 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:12,000 But I mean, like the interfacing, the symbols cool there. 327 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,000 They have a nice logo. 328 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Like the format of the website is good. 329 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:21,000 And then you can see there's a bunch of side links and more information. 330 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:22,000 They do a lot of cool stuff at this. 331 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,000 It's aesthetically pleasing. 332 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Yeah. 333 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,000 You can visit. 334 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,000 There's also ghost tours. 335 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:28,000 No. 336 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,000 I heard St. Augustine's pretty haunted. 337 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,000 It is. 338 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,000 Are you going to tell us about those? 339 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:35,000 I know Halloween's over. 340 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,000 We're not going into depth on the ghost tours. 341 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,000 I figured that might be a separate. 342 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,000 There's so much to talk about. 343 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:46,000 So but I talked with her name is Emma on email. 344 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,000 She works with the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum. 345 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,000 Maritime. 346 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Maritime. 347 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Gosh. 348 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:57,000 And she gave me permission to check this out on our episode today. 349 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,000 So here you go. 350 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,000 Nice. 351 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,000 And she also wanted me to share a couple of things. 352 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,000 So she didn't say this before. 353 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:08,000 She said they offer a new tour called the Twilight at the Top. 354 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:13,000 So you can see a one hour after hours exclusive experience, see a working lighthouse and an 355 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:18,000 active aid to navigation, learn how a lighthouse functions, and enjoy the view from the top 356 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,000 at twilight, which is pretty rare. 357 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:21,000 That would be so cool. 358 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,000 So you can see the sunset and see the lighthouse on. 359 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,000 And yeah, you'd have the lens going behind you. 360 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,000 It says it's weather dependent. 361 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,000 Of course. 362 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,000 Children must be 44 inches or taller and accompanied by an adult. 363 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,000 Yeah. 364 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Upcoming events. 365 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:40,000 I don't know when we're airing, but December 6th is Luminary Night, the lighthouse illuminations, 366 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,000 tides, tidings, and trees. 367 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Then they have events November 22nd through January 13th. 368 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:54,000 If they want to experience those lighthouse events and after hours shows. 369 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,000 I see. 370 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,000 They also have a children's winter camp. 371 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,000 So she asked that I share that with our listeners. 372 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,000 So they've got. 373 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Why would we be doing. 374 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:03,000 Yeah. 375 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:04,000 I can't continue. 376 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:05,000 No, please. 377 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:06,000 What would you be doing? 378 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,000 All of it? 379 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Oh, I was going to say I'd be doing myself a service by sending my child, my future child 380 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,000 to a winter camp at a life. 381 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000 I'd be like, go on, go on, have so much fun. 382 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 I live vicariously through you. 383 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,000 Here's the camera. 384 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Take some pictures. 385 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:21,000 Yeah. 386 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Go on, kid. 387 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Take some pictures. 388 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:24,000 Ask some ghost questions. 389 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,000 Dark of the moon. 390 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,000 I can't speak. 391 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,000 Dark of the moon ghost tour. 392 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Ghost tales. 393 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Sunset moonrise tour. 394 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,000 House of Illuminations. 395 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Champagne and hors d'oeuvres. 396 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 Or is that? 397 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Sunset moonrise tour. 398 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Oh, yeah. 399 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,560 Enjoy breathtaking views of the sunset and full moon rise with champagne and hors d'oeuvres 400 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:44,000 at the top of the tower. 401 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Yeah. 402 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,000 So they really probably bring in a lot of revenue for. 403 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,000 Yeah. 404 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,000 It looks to be in great shape. 405 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,000 They do. 406 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000 And they're the reason I was like, why is this so good? 407 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,000 And I told her what's her name? 408 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Emma. 409 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Yeah, I could think you remembered. 410 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,360 I told Emma when I first reached out to her, I was like, your website is outstanding. 411 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:05,780 We look into a lot of Lighthouse websites. 412 00:16:05,780 --> 00:16:10,000 We are probably the top one percent of people who are doing that. 413 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Yeah. 414 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,460 And they have I mean, there's none that I've seen that are awful, but there are some like 415 00:16:14,460 --> 00:16:16,200 this one that are just outstanding. 416 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:17,200 The graphics are great. 417 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:18,200 Photography is great. 418 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:20,280 Got so many options. 419 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:25,280 And I saw at the bottom, they are partners with both the American Alliance of Museums, 420 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:27,280 which I wasn't familiar with, but also the. 421 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:28,280 American Alliance. 422 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:29,280 They're a Smithsonian affiliate. 423 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:30,280 Oh, my gosh. 424 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:36,920 So big, big, big tourism, big museum efforts. 425 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:40,480 Emma is the I believe she's the lead of their marketing team. 426 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:42,840 So check out the website. 427 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:45,120 Also see if I can find it quickly. 428 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:46,120 Research. 429 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:47,560 All those no gimmicks. 430 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:48,560 You should talk. 431 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:49,560 I want to go here. 432 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:52,780 We could talk about it more. 433 00:16:52,780 --> 00:16:58,200 But they had so they have preservation like they have lamp is what it's called. 434 00:16:58,200 --> 00:16:59,200 Lighthouse archaeology. 435 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:00,200 Here we go. 436 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:01,200 Lamp. 437 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:06,160 St. Augustine Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program. 438 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:12,760 So it's like maritime archaeology, specifically not just lighthouses, but also maritime themed 439 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:13,760 shipwrecks. 440 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:19,920 And they're doing projects and they have research like this is legitimate and they have programs. 441 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:24,460 I can't speak to when they are available and who's serving on, but they have done this 442 00:17:24,460 --> 00:17:25,460 for a long time. 443 00:17:25,460 --> 00:17:30,080 There's part of the shipwreck stuff. 444 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:31,220 It's just super cool. 445 00:17:31,220 --> 00:17:34,640 It's not something I see very often. 446 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:41,640 I really love to do it like a shipwreck episodes or pirate episodes, but we only come out with 447 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:42,640 one every two weeks. 448 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:46,480 And I don't know if we'd be disappointing people by doing something other than a lighthouse 449 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:47,600 on our two weeks. 450 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:49,080 If people would only let us know. 451 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:51,280 Yeah, you guys should let us know. 452 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:57,500 There's lots of things that are outside of just the lighthouse here, but I think it's 453 00:17:57,500 --> 00:17:59,280 fair to say and maritime museum. 454 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:04,880 The lighthouse is obviously a beautiful thing to go see even if you were just driving by, 455 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:05,880 honestly. 456 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:07,640 So, and you can see it's a big scale. 457 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:09,640 We'll talk about the lighthouse next. 458 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:11,520 So that's their website. 459 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:12,520 Highly recommend checking it out. 460 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:14,520 You see the lighthouse and there she is. 461 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:15,520 Very nice. 462 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:16,520 Little red top. 463 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:22,920 Lots of trees around which you wouldn't expect because you can see that the ground is all 464 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:23,920 sand. 465 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:25,560 Yeah, and it's on an island. 466 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:27,360 So this is St. Augustine. 467 00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:32,000 The city is to the left in our screen view. 468 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,840 So it's got a long history and it didn't always look like this as we know from a lot of lighthouse 469 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:36,840 history. 470 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:40,200 So the first settlement I talked about was the Spanish settlers. 471 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,360 1500 to 1800 they were here. 472 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:46,240 The Spanish had the first lighthouse here and there's no images or depictions I've 473 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,680 seen of it so I didn't include any. 474 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:52,000 We're just going to talk about the modern tower as far as what we can look at. 475 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:58,480 But 1500 to 1800s it was wood and stone that was locally sourced. 476 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:00,480 That was their version of a lighthouse tower. 477 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:06,280 Oh wait, you're saying, oh, you're saying when the Spanish were here they had a lighthouse. 478 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:13,520 So the Spanish first arrived in what was Florida now and they had domination, they had domain 479 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:23,320 rather of this area until 1823 then that was given to the United States. 480 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:29,640 So the US got control, excuse me, 1821 and immediately they wanted to upgrade the tower 481 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:35,520 because the reason this area is so valuable is there's this spit you can see that runs 482 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:36,860 far north and south. 483 00:19:36,860 --> 00:19:41,880 So it's a barrier and you can have ships and portage in here in this area. 484 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:45,880 Wow, I didn't know that you were, I thought you were talking about like the building of 485 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,160 the city and not building of a lighthouse in the 1500s. 486 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:50,160 Lighthouse as well. 487 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:51,800 And they don't have any, they don't have anything. 488 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:52,800 I didn't find it. 489 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:59,120 It might someone who's a Spanish history in Florida specialist may know, but I couldn't 490 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:00,520 find it. 491 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:10,960 So 1823 the United States Congress permitted $5,000 to be used to update the Spanish built 492 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:11,960 tower. 493 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:13,240 So like there's a tower there. 494 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:17,800 We just need to, you know, bring it up to 1823 spec. 495 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:25,040 So they modified it and it was a 30 foot tower and it went into service in 1824 and here 496 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,580 is several. 497 00:20:27,580 --> 00:20:29,800 So 1842 is written on the image. 498 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,040 Sight washed away. 499 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:33,040 Yeah. 500 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:34,800 This is so pretty. 501 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:35,800 It is. 502 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:39,800 You know, this is a totally different type of lighthouse than what they have, like not 503 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:45,520 that they have to, but it's like whenever they rebuilt the Alcatraz lighthouse, it's 504 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:49,360 like two very different vibes going on. 505 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:55,080 This one more homey and you know, historical and the other one's like modern and fun to 506 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:56,080 climb. 507 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:57,080 This one's beautiful. 508 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:00,360 It's, I would love to see it in color, but yeah. 509 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:06,120 So the image date contradicts the lighthouse friends is my main source for this episode. 510 00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:07,120 They had do a great job. 511 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:09,360 I love their source. 512 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:14,640 But they said 1842 is 30 foot here and lighthouse friends had it as 1824. 513 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:15,640 Okay. 514 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,000 So maybe one of the other typo. 515 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,000 Yeah. 516 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:24,000 The lamp at that time was 10 oil lamps that were set in silver bowl shape reflectors. 517 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Okay. 518 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:29,280 So they didn't have a Fresnel lens at that time for now. 519 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:30,280 Gosh. 520 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:31,280 Close. 521 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:32,840 We're still learning. 522 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:33,840 Yeah. 523 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:39,520 So it was upgraded to a fourth order revolving Fresnel lens in 1854 and the height was increased 524 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:40,520 over 50 feet. 525 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:41,520 There you go. 526 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:43,480 And then, gosh, another contradiction. 527 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:44,480 What does it say? 528 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:48,320 1848, 1848 and it says 40 foot there. 529 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:49,640 1852 is the final. 530 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:50,640 Okay. 531 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:51,640 We're good. 532 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:52,640 We're up top now. 533 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,800 That's the Fresnel lenses placed in this image. 534 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:55,800 Okay. 535 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:56,800 1859. 536 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:02,440 Um, just a moment in history, Joseph and drew a ND REU the fourth. 537 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,160 He was the fourth head keeper of the light. 538 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,240 He fell 60 feet to his death. 539 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:07,240 Oh no. 540 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:12,480 The lashing on the scaffolding he was using gave away while he was whitewashing the tower 541 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,600 and he would go on to become one of the ghosts that is hunting. 542 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,600 I mean not excellent, but. 543 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:19,600 Might as well. 544 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:21,200 Whitewashing, it'll get you. 545 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,040 There's a lot of stories of keepers falling. 546 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:28,080 Scaffolding, lashing, they'll all get you. 547 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:34,840 His wife Maria, she took over as the keeper and served until it was extinguished shortly 548 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:43,000 after the outbreak of the Civil War, American Civil War, which was from 1861 to 1865. 549 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,720 So also another ghost moment. 550 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:52,000 Joseph Pesetti, a Confederate soldier, he was wounded while he was trying to remove 551 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,920 the lens from the lighthouse in hopes that the union would not make use of the lighthouse 552 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,080 as they were going to lose Florida potentially. 553 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,760 He was wounded by the lens or by invaders? 554 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:03,760 By the lens. 555 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:07,840 He heard himself, but he's another lighthouse fights back. 556 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,320 Yeah, it's like no. 557 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:15,640 Keep lighting my Fresnel lens must keep spinning. 558 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,680 So the tower was deactivated for that period of time. 559 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:24,920 It was reactivated 1867 after the war and a new lens had to be furnished. 560 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:29,760 Yeah, because that guy messed up the other one. 561 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,680 It was clearly evident that erosion was endangering the lighthouse. 562 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,000 Oh no, here we go again. 563 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:39,200 On July 1st of 1870, the distance from the keepers dwelling to the high water mark was 564 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,240 70 feet, which is quite a bit. 565 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:46,440 By November, so this is July to November, the distance had shrunk to just 40 feet. 566 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:50,000 So the whole landmass was just going. 567 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,560 It wasn't like turning slowly. 568 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,160 What was the three sisters? 569 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,440 What was that one? 570 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,080 Was that up in East Coast for sure? 571 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:00,560 Yeah, that was Cape Cod area. 572 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:01,560 Okay. 573 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,400 Yeah, they're on edge of a cliff though. 574 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,080 That well and that erosion was straight on. 575 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,000 I think this erosion was collapsing into the water. 576 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Oh, okay. 577 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,000 Wow. 578 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:11,000 Not good. 579 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,840 The lighthouse board determined that a new lighthouse was needed and a five acre tract 580 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,840 was located just like half a mile inland. 581 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:23,200 They acquired it after some old Spanish land grants and claims to settlers were straightened 582 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:24,200 out. 583 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,700 So more paperwork for the lighthouse board, but they got it done. 584 00:24:28,700 --> 00:24:32,480 The plans were drawn up by a man named Paul Peltz, P-E-L-Z. 585 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:37,040 He was a chief draftsman of the lighthouse board and he also later would go on to be 586 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:40,600 one of the two architects that's responsible for the Library of Congress. 587 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:41,600 Oh my gosh. 588 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:42,600 Cool. 589 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:43,600 Yeah. 590 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:44,600 Very cool. 591 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,600 Construction began in 1872 using $60,000. 592 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:48,600 $60,000? 593 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:49,600 $60,000. 594 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:50,600 Holy cow. 595 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,880 And then immediately the next year they added $20,000. 596 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:53,880 Oh yeah. 597 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,880 The walls had grown to a height of just a few feet when all the funds were gone. 598 00:24:57,880 --> 00:24:58,880 No. 599 00:24:58,880 --> 00:24:59,880 Yes. 600 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:01,640 How is that possible? 601 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,400 Construction planning has been going well for a long time. 602 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:05,640 Wow. 603 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,880 Did they buy materials with that or? 604 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:08,880 Mm-hmm. 605 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:09,880 Okay. 606 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:10,880 Materials and they hired. 607 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:11,880 So like labor they ran out. 608 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:12,880 They signed contracts. 609 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:18,880 They had an additional $25,000, allowed the work to continue and finally it was done. 610 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,880 So the sum is $60,000 plus $20,000 plus $25,000. 611 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,880 So $105,000 in 1800s, which sounds like a lot. 612 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:26,880 Yeah. 613 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:28,880 In 1874 finally it was re-lit. 614 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:29,880 Okay. 615 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:30,880 So. 616 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:31,880 What kind of lens did they have? 617 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:32,880 We've been through some things. 618 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,880 Also a fourth order I believe. 619 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:35,880 Okay. 620 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:36,880 It's first order now, isn't it? 621 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:37,880 Yes it is now. 622 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:38,880 This is the old one we're looking at. 623 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,880 The new one, it is a first order lens. 624 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:42,880 I'm repeating my paragraph, sorry. 625 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:43,880 Gotcha. 626 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,560 It is a first order lens and it's 165 feet tall. 627 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,880 It's the one that is shown today and the day mark is the same as Hatteras. 628 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:52,880 It is a spiral black and white. 629 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,760 So the left image is in 1966. 630 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,880 So it's been like 80 or 90 years since it was constructed. 631 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:00,880 Wow. 632 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:02,240 The tower at that time. 633 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:07,880 Within a month of this construction in 1874 a flock of ducks flew into the lantern room. 634 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,280 It's always ducks flying. 635 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:12,280 What are they doing? 636 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:13,280 Ducks man. 637 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,680 They're not, you don't need to do that. 638 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,000 They're like ooh a laser beam. 639 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,280 Like you're not moths, don't go into the light. 640 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:21,440 Well they're big moths. 641 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:25,680 They broke three panes of glass and they caused slight damage to the lens. 642 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:26,680 Geez. 643 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,120 Which would cause it to need to be replaced. 644 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:32,520 But first a wire screen was installed around the lantern room. 645 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:33,520 Of course. 646 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,280 That was their first move. 647 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,280 The tower, the construction is kind of interesting. 648 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:42,120 The brick came from Alabama, granite for the base came from Georgia, iron all came from 649 00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:43,120 Philadelphia. 650 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:44,640 So it was a big old deal. 651 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:49,120 The lens, the new one came from France as well. 652 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:55,520 It was a fixed white light pattern and every three minutes displayed a white flash. 653 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,480 I believe that's the same too today. 654 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:03,040 165 foot tall to the focal plane. 655 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:08,400 The focal plane and it was painted of course the black and white spiral bands to match 656 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:09,400 Cape Hatteras. 657 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:10,400 Nice. 658 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,440 They did it on purpose. 659 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:13,440 Yeah. 660 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,800 And honestly if you look at the construction, it's pretty similar to Cape Hatteras. 661 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:24,240 The base octagonal shape and then the really the whole thing looks quite similar to Hatteras. 662 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:30,800 When I first saw this wine bottle, which is very accurate, good for them, it reminded 663 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,480 me of Cape Hatteras. 664 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:33,960 But you know, only a foot tall. 665 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:39,680 I thought that they used the same plans for this one, Cape Hatteras. 666 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:50,440 Maybe they did and my notes are confusing that Mr. Pels also was the architect of Hatteras. 667 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:51,440 I can't remember. 668 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:52,440 Okay. 669 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:56,640 I think that's a big moment we should figure out in Lighthouse history of who was the architect 670 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:00,000 and maybe it's several people because architects are huge in Lighthouse development. 671 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,920 We've talked about often there'll be a nameplate or a plaque. 672 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:07,520 Like here is the engineer, Lighthouse engineer, which is a cool job title. 673 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,320 Here I am just a mechanical engineer. 674 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:11,320 Measley. 675 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:18,160 Well, like Bodie Island and Kuretuk were the same plans that they used for the Lighthouse. 676 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,960 They're identical except for their different colors. 677 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:23,360 Scale and Denmark, right? 678 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:26,860 On the right image, you can see that white building at the base. 679 00:28:26,860 --> 00:28:32,720 That was originally built as a keeper's office on one side and then the other side was large 680 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:33,720 drums of oil. 681 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,280 Lard oil was the original fuel. 682 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,560 It was converted to kerosene and they had to build a new brick oil house that was safer 683 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:40,560 or distance away. 684 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,960 I assume that's the one on the right, the small shack because kerosene is apparently 685 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:49,880 a lot more flammable and volatile compared to previous lamp oil. 686 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,240 That keeper's dwelling is pretty nice. 687 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:53,240 It'll come up. 688 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:54,720 Oh no. 689 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,840 While work was underway on the new tower, the Lighthouse board submitted a following 690 00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:58,840 report. 691 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,240 I'm going to speak in a fun accent. 692 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:05,840 A keeper's dwelling will be required as there was not sufficient or proper accommodations 693 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:11,560 at the old Lighthouse for three keepers, the number required to attend a first order Lighthouse. 694 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:15,760 And the distance is too great for the new tower to ensure proper attendance, even if 695 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,680 the present dwelling was suitable. 696 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:22,960 So they already got this contract to build this big for the time and still big today, 697 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,200 beautiful Lighthouse. 698 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:30,800 And they're like, we need more money. 699 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:31,800 I see. 700 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:33,560 And they wrote so eloquently. 701 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:38,240 But the original keeper's dwelling was connected to the Lighthouse. 702 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:43,280 The original keeper's dwelling, not this Lighthouse and the original footprint Lighthouse was 703 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:44,280 connected. 704 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,560 Oh, so they demolished the Lighthouse part. 705 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:47,560 That tower. 706 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:48,560 Yeah. 707 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,120 That tower is no good, but we could use that house was the original idea. 708 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:52,120 Oh, I see. 709 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:53,120 They're saying it's too far away. 710 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:54,120 It's too far. 711 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:55,120 Is it in this picture? 712 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:56,120 It's gone. 713 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:57,120 Oh, she go. 714 00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:58,120 She's gone. 715 00:29:58,120 --> 00:29:59,720 She went into the water. 716 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:00,720 Oh, 1875. 717 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:01,720 Oh, man. 718 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:02,720 Yeah. 719 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:03,720 They just let it go. 720 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:04,720 Yeah. 721 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,920 I'll get right to it. 722 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:11,320 So Congress gave twenty thousand dollars at that request to build to build this new duplex, 723 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,200 which is beautiful. 724 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:18,120 In the meantime, they lived in that dwelling at the old one. 725 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:22,280 They continued to live there until the duplex was built, finished in 1875. 726 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,080 It was 1880s. 727 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:28,040 Five years later, they watched the old one literally topple into the water. 728 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,000 So it was it was within five years. 729 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,600 It was actually in the water. 730 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,960 So not been very good. 731 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,200 So are the ruins just like underwater? 732 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:39,200 You know, I don't know. 733 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:40,200 That would be cool. 734 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:41,480 I've never considered that. 735 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,080 Maybe that's part of LAMP. 736 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,560 Their archeology, archaeological stuff. 737 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,440 I wonder if it wasn't like recovered and put somewhere. 738 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,040 I mean, I guess they'd just be stoned. 739 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,360 Maybe it went to heck before went in the water. 740 00:30:54,360 --> 00:31:01,200 But as of 1875, when they finished this tower, there were three keepers stationed there. 741 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,240 The day was divided into three eight hour watches. 742 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,040 You see eight again. 743 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,400 The primary responsibility, of course, is caring for the light. 744 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:15,520 They lugged 30 pound cans of lard oil, kerosene up the 214 stairs. 745 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:20,440 And periodically, they had to wind the weight, which is 275 pounds in this tower. 746 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:21,440 Oh, yeah. 747 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:26,680 That, of course, revolves the lantern mechanism. 748 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:31,880 They also maintain the buildings, provided tours to visitors, even in those times. 749 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,960 And when necessary, they served as lifesavers. 750 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:39,680 This function is demonstrated by two of the following entries from the station's logbook. 751 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:45,920 September 23rd of 1887, schooner schooner schooner. 752 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:52,760 I think it's schooner dream went on the sandbar near old lighthouse at three a.m. 753 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:57,440 Nine passengers rescued by keepers lost the anchor sails and small boat. 754 00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:58,440 Oh, man. 755 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,840 The vessel floated off in damaged condition. 756 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,160 The vessel floated off canoe. 757 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:04,720 Anything about it. 758 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:11,520 November 13th of 1890, three years later, five p.m. the steamer star spangled banner 759 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:12,760 foundered on the bar. 760 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:13,760 A total wreck. 761 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:14,760 Oh, no. 762 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:16,360 Crew were rescued by the keeper. 763 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:17,360 OK. 764 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:18,360 The keepers are busy. 765 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:19,360 Yeah. 766 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:20,360 Busy. 767 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:21,760 You say three days later. 768 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:22,760 Yeah. 769 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:23,760 Three years later. 770 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:25,560 So why is everyone crashing? 771 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,240 That's a lighthouse. 772 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:28,400 There's a lighthouse. 773 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,800 It's a new lighthouse in those years. 774 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,400 They weren't used to it. 775 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:37,520 It's been there, well, 15 years, roughly 15, 20 years at that time. 776 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,960 But I think information moved a lot slower in the 1800s. 777 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,720 And also these could be storm conditions. 778 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:46,360 One was September and one was November. 779 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,160 So not, you know, the nicest. 780 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:50,160 One of them also was three a.m. 781 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:51,160 Windy and stormy. 782 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:52,160 Yeah. 783 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,240 Of course, we hear this a lot about lighthouses. 784 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:59,240 The effects of a powerful earthquake rocked Charleston, South Carolina, which is kind of 785 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:00,240 nearby. 786 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:01,240 What year is that? 787 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,400 1886. 788 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,320 The effects were felt in St. Augustine. 789 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:07,000 William A. 790 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,080 Horn provided an entry in the notebook. 791 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:14,400 I'm not going to read it because it's it is interesting, but we've heard a lot of them. 792 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:15,400 Yeah. 793 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:16,400 Dogs barked. 794 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:17,400 There was a big boom. 795 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:18,400 The tower swayed. 796 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:19,400 Oh, yeah. 797 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:20,400 So not good. 798 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:26,960 I don't mean to minimize it, but it wasn't, you know, what was the one in 1904? 799 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:27,960 In San Francisco? 800 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:28,960 I think so. 801 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:29,960 That was like the city was on fire. 802 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:30,960 Yeah. 803 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:31,960 And it was toppled. 804 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:38,040 It wasn't that extent, but still quite exciting for the man who was in charge of a tower. 805 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:42,760 Swaying buildings are it's the most uncomfortable feeling. 806 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,160 Like when you're like when you're in a really, really tall building and it's windy and you 807 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,280 can just feel that it's very slightly moving. 808 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,280 It's like, why are you doing that? 809 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:51,280 Yeah, very scary. 810 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:52,880 Here's a fun piece of history. 811 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,920 I feel like I've heard this somewhere else. 812 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:59,960 Life at the station was full of varied activities for the Keepers children. 813 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:06,480 One noted story involves Cardell Cracker Daniels, son of Keeper Cardell D. Daniels. 814 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,880 I was like, that can't be right. 815 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:15,440 Cracker would regularly use the tall tower in the brickyard as a launching pad for his 816 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:16,920 model airplanes and parachutes. 817 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:18,880 Oh, that would be cool. 818 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:23,480 After safely parachuting several inanimate objects off the tower, Cracker decided it 819 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,160 was time for a live experiment. 820 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:26,160 The cat. 821 00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,600 Cracker's sister Wilma had a cat named Smokey. 822 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:29,600 Yes. 823 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:30,600 She was selected as the paratrooper. 824 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,040 Didn't this happen somewhere else? 825 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:33,040 No, no. 826 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:40,600 I covered this incident because Smokey lives at the lighthouse now as a ghost, as a ghostly 827 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:41,600 cat. 828 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:42,600 Very nice. 829 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,320 I covered it in I think last year's Halloween episode. 830 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:45,320 OK. 831 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,360 I was going to say, I've heard this before. 832 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:48,360 It's been a year. 833 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:49,360 OK. 834 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:50,360 The cat didn't die with the parachute. 835 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:51,360 It did not die. 836 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:52,360 Yeah. 837 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:57,920 But God, those kids would get a thrashing if like you just threw our cat. 838 00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,800 He never told anyone. 839 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:00,800 Watch. 840 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:01,800 Eventually he did. 841 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:06,720 After a couple of practice descents from lesser heights, the poor cat, the reluctant cat was 842 00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:11,440 tossed from the top of the tower with the parachute strapped to its back. 843 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,160 When the frightened feline reached the ground, it bolted from the area. 844 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:19,600 Unaware of Cracker's antics, Wilma searched far and near for her cat over the next several 845 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:20,600 days. 846 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,680 A month passed by before Smokey finally returned home. 847 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:27,600 But it wasn't until several years later that the family learned the reason for the cat's 848 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:28,600 death. 849 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,920 It ran off with a parachute still attached to him. 850 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,920 I guess a month of lugging around. 851 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:34,920 It was awfully persistent. 852 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,000 I bet it got out. 853 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:42,520 The Keepers dwelling was electrified in the year 1925, but the tower was not wired up 854 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,100 until 1936. 855 00:35:44,100 --> 00:35:48,240 So during that time, they had electricity in the tower and the Keepers duplex there, 856 00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:49,240 which looks really nice. 857 00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:50,400 It's still there. 858 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,400 And then but the tower was still running on oil. 859 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:54,680 OK. 860 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:56,640 So you know that that helped out. 861 00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:00,480 But the eventually 1936, it was electrified. 862 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,180 De-staffing happened in 1955. 863 00:36:03,180 --> 00:36:05,400 But there were still local people who would come check on it. 864 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:06,800 They didn't have they just didn't have to live there. 865 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:07,800 It wasn't full time. 866 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:08,800 Yeah. 867 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:09,800 They're called lamp lighters. 868 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:14,840 Well, they didn't have Coast Guard people working. 869 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:15,840 Not yet. 870 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:16,840 Civilian Keepers. 871 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,040 Oh, yep. 872 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:24,080 I think they were actually volunteers, but they would, you know, polish the lens. 873 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,120 They'd switch on and off the light and then. 874 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:28,120 Yeah. 875 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:29,120 Oh, it wasn't automated. 876 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,960 That's why the light was not automated, even though it was electric. 877 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:32,960 So they still had people. 878 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,880 The lamp lighters would come even though there was no fuel oil being burned. 879 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:40,040 So automation occurred in 1971. 880 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:41,800 They put a solar beacon on top. 881 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:46,440 So it would sense when the light needs to be on and off, which I I've never really thought 882 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:47,440 about that. 883 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:51,680 Like how that is it clockwork or digital or wireless signal? 884 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:59,160 I have a note to cover automation in a history buoy, but it's kind of seems like it would 885 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,280 be a lot of work to research. 886 00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,240 So I haven't gotten around to doing that yet. 887 00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:05,240 It'll be big. 888 00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:07,680 It's going to be huge. 889 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:08,680 Huge. 890 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:14,520 Unfortunately, in the late 1960s, the dwelling was boarded up, was declared surplus and put 891 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:15,520 on the auction block. 892 00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:16,520 Oh, no. 893 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:20,240 So the St. John's County is the county in which is located. 894 00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:25,200 They were negotiating the purchase price of the dwelling when it was completely gutted 895 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:26,760 by an arson fire. 896 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,400 July 28th of 1970. 897 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:33,760 The fire did reduce the purchase price, but may be restoring the structure, a daunting 898 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:34,760 task. 899 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:35,760 Yeah. 900 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,960 The county considered tearing it down and a group called the Junior Service League of 901 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:44,840 St. Augustine, which is found in 1935 by a group of women interested in improving social, 902 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,000 educational and cultural conditions of St. John's County. 903 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,660 They offered to take on the restoration in 1980. 904 00:37:50,660 --> 00:37:52,920 So it sat for a while. 905 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:58,800 But what they did is awesome because starting in 1980 at a pretty much decrepit arson condition, 906 00:37:58,800 --> 00:37:59,800 it started to be restored. 907 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,800 Eight years later, it was opened as the Maritime Museum. 908 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:03,800 Oh, my. 909 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:04,800 Wait, you say eight years? 910 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:05,800 1989. 911 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:06,800 That took a long time. 912 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:07,800 Do they know? 913 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,640 Do they find out who started the fire? 914 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:11,640 No. 915 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:12,640 Could be ghosts. 916 00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,920 Could be someone who was involved with they wanted to purchase it or didn't want it sold. 917 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:22,320 No ghost would no ghost would burn down their old house. 918 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:27,520 Well, a lot of energy for them to conjure up a little flame. 919 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:28,520 Yeah. 920 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,000 Well, Sparky Boys 1990. 921 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,880 So just a year later, the Junior Service League, they signed a lease with a Coast Guard for 922 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:36,880 the lighthouse. 923 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:41,280 And the following year equipped with safety features, the lighthouse itself was opened 924 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,120 again to the public for climbing. 925 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:47,040 So it was it was open really early on, which I don't hear about often. 926 00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:51,880 Yeah, like tours were provided by the original keepers here and then not available for a 927 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:52,880 long time. 928 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,760 And then once they upgraded safety features, like you can see on the new tower, the railing 929 00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:57,760 is really good. 930 00:38:57,760 --> 00:38:58,760 Yes. 931 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:02,120 You know, it's clearly built for visitors in 1986. 932 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:08,480 So during we'll call it modern times, a bullet was shot from a 30-06 rifle that shattered 933 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,800 19 prisms in the historical Fresnel lens. 934 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:13,400 Who the hell did that? 935 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:17,400 Frank Mears, who was a caretaker of the light at that time. 936 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:18,400 Why did he shoot the light? 937 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:19,400 He didn't shoot it. 938 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:20,400 He called the FBI. 939 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:21,400 What? 940 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,880 He said, my tower has been shot. 941 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,540 He called the FBI. 942 00:39:26,540 --> 00:39:31,520 They did an investigation and found powder burns from a rifle on a nearby palm tree. 943 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:32,520 So who did it? 944 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:36,640 Eventually, they found the 14 year old responsible for the shooting. 945 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:41,520 But the senseless act led to the lens being taken out of commission in September 1991. 946 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:42,840 He needs to go to prison. 947 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:43,840 That lens. 948 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:50,040 So he probably took his dad's rifle and shot at a light because it's something he's 14. 949 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:51,040 He's an idiot. 950 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:52,040 Yeah, he is. 951 00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:53,040 And he's like, look at this. 952 00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:54,040 I'm going to shoot at this. 953 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,040 Oh. 954 00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:57,280 So do you know how expensive that is? 955 00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:58,280 I know. 956 00:39:58,280 --> 00:39:59,280 I know. 957 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:00,280 It was expensive. 958 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,640 So the light was out of commission and the airport beacon was placed on the tower at 959 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:08,720 91 on top of the tower above the lantern room. 960 00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:10,000 Thank goodness. 961 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:14,280 They balanced options of removing the lens or trying to repair it in place. 962 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:20,520 Fortunately, there was a grant obtained and they replaced the prisms and bullseye panel, 963 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:24,320 one bullseye panel, and it resumed operation 93. 964 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,520 So two years went by of this restoration in place. 965 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,640 What were the repercussions for this guy's actions? 966 00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:30,640 I don't know. 967 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:31,640 That's the end of that story. 968 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:32,640 He needs to pay. 969 00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:33,640 14 year old. 970 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:34,640 He needs to pay. 971 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,640 The gun better be locked up. 972 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,240 They're shooting rifles at lighthouses. 973 00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:42,240 I know. 974 00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:43,880 How much was it to replace this piece? 975 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:44,880 It's like a million dollars. 976 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:45,880 There was a grant. 977 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,840 I think it was a private private cost, not publicly published. 978 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,720 I'm pissed off. 979 00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:55,440 I'm pissed, royally pissed. 980 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:56,440 I hope you learned. 981 00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,120 Somebody should have taught him a lesson. 982 00:40:58,120 --> 00:40:59,760 Well, they kept it on display. 983 00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,640 They could throw him out the top of the lighthouse with a parachute. 984 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:04,640 Boy. 985 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:05,640 So we're not there yet. 986 00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:10,520 The bargain 93 was that repair 98. 987 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:15,400 There was a so the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum was incorporated as a separate 988 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,280 entity away from the junior service league. 989 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,160 They grew it into what it was. 990 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:23,640 So there's a new visitor center that was added in 2000, which is really new in lighthouse 991 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:24,640 history. 992 00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:25,640 It's awesome. 993 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,440 It accommodates large crowds that come to the lighthouse and climate. 994 00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:29,440 The lighthouse itself. 995 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:34,840 The tower was awarded a St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum in 2002 under the provisions of 996 00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,800 the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act. 997 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,400 So it's all kind of incorporating in the 2000s. 998 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:47,800 But the reason that I say all that and I include it today is when you see that awesome website, 999 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,440 when you see it's a Smithsonian affiliate, when you talk to the people who actually answer 1000 00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,520 emails, which is super nice. 1001 00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,720 Thanks, Emma. 1002 00:41:55,720 --> 00:41:56,720 It's really great. 1003 00:41:56,720 --> 00:42:01,360 And it's like, you know, it's a 15,000 people live here. 1004 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,200 It's not a huge city. 1005 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:08,320 And people, I bet you most people who go visit as tourists at least once go see this lighthouse. 1006 00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:13,720 Yeah, so I don't have those numbers, but it's a really as far as we're concerned with talking 1007 00:42:13,720 --> 00:42:18,400 about lighthouse history, but also one of our branches is tourism of lighthouses. 1008 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:19,400 This is this looks awesome. 1009 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:20,400 I'd love to go. 1010 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:26,740 You know, looking at this picture, I'm thinking this may have used body islands design plans 1011 00:42:26,740 --> 00:42:30,760 as these features because of the little entrance house at the bottom. 1012 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:34,120 Yeah, well, Cape Hatteras is on a big platform down here. 1013 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:35,920 Yeah, a red platform. 1014 00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,160 And it doesn't have that little house connected. 1015 00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:42,840 But but both Kuretuk and body do. 1016 00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,400 And these are I think originally these are like fuel storage, these structures. 1017 00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:50,240 And then they added the they enclosed it here. 1018 00:42:50,240 --> 00:42:54,920 If you look at some of our other of our older pictures, maybe it was always connected. 1019 00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:56,920 I can't see the backside of that right image. 1020 00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,340 I think it was a plan to have it connected. 1021 00:42:59,340 --> 00:43:02,240 Before we continue, I'm going to take a second to go back to those wine bottles. 1022 00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:03,240 Oh, yeah. 1023 00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:07,760 So I got to tell you, $25 is the listed price. 1024 00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,000 I don't remember what I've paid for it, where I have found it, because I never ordered it 1025 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,000 from their website. 1026 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:13,480 But St. Sebastian winery. 1027 00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:15,320 So it's it's in St. Augustine. 1028 00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:19,000 They've got a rooftop bar for they've got like sandwiches and hors d'oeuvres. 1029 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:20,960 They have live music up there. 1030 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:22,540 They've got several wines. 1031 00:43:22,540 --> 00:43:26,480 This is what's actually in the bottle is a wine they make called Vintner's Red, which 1032 00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,280 is I think, like $15. 1033 00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,740 So the very tasty you can get it in this. 1034 00:43:31,740 --> 00:43:32,740 It is really good. 1035 00:43:32,740 --> 00:43:37,320 We've had it, especially our lighthouse cocktail episode, the cocktail hour. 1036 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,400 We tried this in a drink that I made up. 1037 00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:40,740 But it's a sweet red. 1038 00:43:40,740 --> 00:43:43,160 It's really drinkable. 1039 00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:44,160 This is not sponsored. 1040 00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:45,440 I wish it was. 1041 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:50,760 But if you want to give somebody who's in the lighthouse as a gift, this is a cool bottle. 1042 00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:51,760 It's attainable. 1043 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:52,760 Twenty five bucks. 1044 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,220 I mean, the Vintner's Red is cheaper. 1045 00:43:54,220 --> 00:43:57,000 So the the glass costs you something right. 1046 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,480 But right on the on the bottle and it's not even on the website, it says a portion of 1047 00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:09,240 the proceeds are donated to the first light maritime society who is dedicated to discovering, 1048 00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:15,480 preserving, presenting and keeping alive the story of our nation's oldest port, St. Augustine 1049 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:16,480 Lighthouse. 1050 00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:17,480 And it's got a really cool image on it. 1051 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:21,920 Even if you don't like wine, I am not a wine person and I enjoyed it. 1052 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:26,920 And also you can just keep it like it's just it's a very neat little. 1053 00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:28,720 It's a conversation starter. 1054 00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:29,720 Yeah. 1055 00:44:29,720 --> 00:44:33,160 So we've got one unopened and one empty that we still have. 1056 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,080 So their website's cool. 1057 00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:39,680 I got the idea or I got the idea from someone else to cut a little hole in the side and 1058 00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:41,640 make it into make them into lamps. 1059 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,080 Oh, that's a good idea. 1060 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:44,080 Yeah. 1061 00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:47,960 Either fill them with like fairy lights or run a cord through the top and put a lampshade 1062 00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:48,960 on top. 1063 00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:49,960 Yeah. 1064 00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:50,960 That'd be cool. 1065 00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:54,520 We wanted to get crazy. 1066 00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:59,480 Just on Google, you can see the top things to do in this is a really cool time to visit 1067 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:00,760 our farm. 1068 00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,640 This is a national monument slash Fort. 1069 00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:04,240 I want to go there. 1070 00:45:04,240 --> 00:45:07,360 The castles, Castillo, San Marcos. 1071 00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:10,920 I shouldn't try the litner museum. 1072 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,320 So this is I believe this is the one it was. 1073 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,000 It's a university today. 1074 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:20,520 It's also at one point it was a hotel, like a grand hotel. 1075 00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,080 So if you look at like aerial photos, it's really cool. 1076 00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,840 Pirate Treasure Museum, Archeological. 1077 00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:30,520 Pirate and Treasure Museum. 1078 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:34,120 We missed out on getting to go to a pirate museum when we traveled. 1079 00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:35,480 Which one? 1080 00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:41,320 It was we were going to go to it on our way out to Ocracoke and it said permanently closed. 1081 00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:42,320 Oh man, I forgot about that. 1082 00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,320 It was the day of that I was like we can we can we can make time. 1083 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:46,320 It was like Blackbeard's. 1084 00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:47,320 Right. 1085 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:48,320 Yeah. 1086 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,320 Right next to the ferry and oh, wasn't it? 1087 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:52,320 Ocracoke. 1088 00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:53,320 It was on Ocracoke. 1089 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:54,320 It was on Ocracoke. 1090 00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:55,320 Yeah. 1091 00:45:55,320 --> 00:46:00,080 But St. Augustine, the lighthouse and maritime museums up there in the top six things to 1092 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:01,080 do. 1093 00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:02,560 Actually, I think it's listed as number one. 1094 00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,120 Just this image is from Google. 1095 00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,120 There's a distillery. 1096 00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,480 You know, cathedral distillery. 1097 00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:13,240 But I think it's Anastasia State Park is the island where it's on the island where the 1098 00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:14,240 lighthouse is. 1099 00:46:14,240 --> 00:46:16,040 So it's supposed to be beautiful. 1100 00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:19,120 So this is a video that we're going to watch now. 1101 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:20,120 OK. 1102 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:25,000 I don't know how we're going to handle the audio in the episode, so we can add it or 1103 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:29,120 as the nation's oldest city, it only makes sense that St. Augustine would also have some 1104 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:32,080 of the country's oldest ghost stories. 1105 00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:35,640 One of the most haunted spots is said to be the historic lighthouse. 1106 00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:39,720 Mr. Jackson Porter, Aaron Farrar, visited the nearly 150 year old landmark and he talked 1107 00:46:39,720 --> 00:46:44,080 with people who work there every day dealing with the paranormal. 1108 00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:49,120 Two hundred nineteen steps all the way up to this observation deck of the lighthouse. 1109 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:54,480 We're about 140 feet in the air, but it's what's happened for years below us that really 1110 00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:59,280 adds to the spooky season. 1111 00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:04,800 Guests wander around these hallowed halls of the St. Augustine Lighthouse, now 148 years 1112 00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:05,800 old. 1113 00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:10,960 Sammy Washburn, who gives dark of the moon tours year round, says there are other visitors 1114 00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:11,960 among them. 1115 00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:12,960 Ghosts. 1116 00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:16,800 Washburn says she's witnessed some of that paranormal activity. 1117 00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:21,360 They'll open and close windows when they aren't supposed to be open or closed. 1118 00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:26,600 That's a typical act of this shadowy figure who Washburn says is one of the more popular 1119 00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:27,600 ghosts. 1120 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:35,520 It might be a former lighthouse keeper who also picks up and drops this bucket. 1121 00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:40,060 Bobby Dye with the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum believes those experiences 1122 00:47:40,060 --> 00:47:41,960 can catch people off guard. 1123 00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:46,320 There's a level of shock any time they experience, you know, something paranormal here on the 1124 00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:47,320 grounds. 1125 00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:51,840 Washburn has been giving tours here for six years, and sometimes things just get really 1126 00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:52,840 creepy. 1127 00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:54,680 Like the time she was locked inside the lighthouse. 1128 00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:58,080 It was definitely one of those like jaw dropping. 1129 00:47:58,080 --> 00:47:59,800 I can't believe this is happening. 1130 00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:00,800 How do we get out? 1131 00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:04,560 Thankfully, I had a fellow staff member with me who was willing to climb out of a side 1132 00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:07,400 window and unlock the door. 1133 00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:10,820 Things change when these guests have those paranormal encounters. 1134 00:48:10,820 --> 00:48:15,200 People sometimes say they're struggling to climb to the top of the lighthouse, and then 1135 00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:20,080 all of a sudden they'll feel like a hand on their back kind of guiding them up to the 1136 00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:22,400 top of the lighthouse. 1137 00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:26,800 Washburn credits that to this ghost, Maria Andrew, who is dressed in white and is one 1138 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:31,480 of the only ghosts she says appears in full body apparition. 1139 00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:35,840 Maria was the wife of a keeper of the old lighthouse who fell to his death. 1140 00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:39,560 Then there's Peter Rasmussen, one of Washburn's favorite ghosts. 1141 00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:44,800 He was the longest serving lighthouse keeper, 23 years on the job in the early 1900s. 1142 00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:50,720 Washburn says he sends a cherry tobacco scent throughout the entire lighthouse, especially 1143 00:48:50,720 --> 00:48:52,920 when another guest insults him. 1144 00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,040 Washburn says that's happened before. 1145 00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,680 He called Peter stupid. 1146 00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:03,220 And as we were exiting the room that we were in, he stopped right in the doorway. 1147 00:49:03,220 --> 00:49:06,960 And I went back to check on him and I got to the other side of the doorway. 1148 00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:10,960 And there was just this whiff of cherry tobacco, like someone had walked through the doorway 1149 00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:12,260 in between us. 1150 00:49:12,260 --> 00:49:16,080 So I think that was Peter just letting this guy know, hey, I've got my eye on you. 1151 00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:17,300 Don't insult me again. 1152 00:49:17,300 --> 00:49:22,400 The reactions of these mysterious encounters vary, but those who underestimate them, Washburn 1153 00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:23,980 says, are the best. 1154 00:49:23,980 --> 00:49:28,080 Those are kind of my favorites because they're usually the ones who are like, I'll be fine. 1155 00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:31,120 Ghosts could talk to me, ghosts could touch me, I'd be good. 1156 00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:34,120 But then they actually have something happen and they're like, all right, I'm done, I'm 1157 00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:35,120 out. 1158 00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:36,120 So what would you do? 1159 00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:42,800 Reporting in St. Augustine, I'm Aaron for our channel four, The Local Station. 1160 00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:43,800 Hello. 1161 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:44,800 Kind of neat. 1162 00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:52,680 For people not watching the video, they keep showing this picture of a black form hanging 1163 00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:56,720 over the railing, staring down at whoever is taking the picture. 1164 00:49:56,720 --> 00:49:58,000 And I think I've heard of that. 1165 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:04,840 Was it like ghost hunters or whatever, ghost busters or something? 1166 00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:08,800 I've heard the people are that go and film and stuff, ghost hunters or something. 1167 00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:10,800 They talk about that. 1168 00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:14,960 Yeah, like you can't see them and then you take a picture and there's a flash. 1169 00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:15,960 I hate that. 1170 00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:16,960 It gives me goosebumps. 1171 00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:21,560 She was also, I didn't notice until this time when I watched it, her shirt, I pointed at 1172 00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:22,560 when we were watching. 1173 00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:26,480 It has the lighthouse, like the lantern room and then a little ghost peeking out from around 1174 00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:27,480 the side in the graphic. 1175 00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:28,480 Thank you. 1176 00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:29,480 So cool. 1177 00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:33,840 So that's the main body of our research today. 1178 00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:38,880 And then I wanted to once again thank the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum 1179 00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:40,880 for their permission to check out the website. 1180 00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:44,200 Let's see what else I got on here. 1181 00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:45,280 That's it. 1182 00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:46,280 So St. Augustine, Florida. 1183 00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:47,280 That's a good one. 1184 00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:49,840 They've been on the list for a long time. 1185 00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:50,840 Lots of history. 1186 00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:51,840 It's so old. 1187 00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:54,380 Well, and I've condensed some things. 1188 00:50:54,380 --> 00:50:55,720 I'm sure there's more. 1189 00:50:55,720 --> 00:50:59,360 There's a lot that I didn't include that, you know, kind of general things that we've 1190 00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,440 covered at other lighthouses. 1191 00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,880 Just covering things that are unique about this one, there's still quite a bit of quite 1192 00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:07,520 a bit of stories to tell. 1193 00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:12,400 So it'd be a fun place to go visit because there's so much other history. 1194 00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:15,640 Like the lighthouse can be a part of your trip. 1195 00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:16,640 Yeah. 1196 00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:17,640 Yeah. 1197 00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:18,640 Jacksonville, Orlando, I'm pretty sure. 1198 00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:20,680 I think it's like an hour and a half. 1199 00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:21,680 I don't know. 1200 00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:25,440 I could spend probably a week there and you could probably spend a weekend there or a 1201 00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,000 day and you'd have a good time. 1202 00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:31,840 So I'm caught between wanting to do a trip next year where we visit a bunch of lighthouses 1203 00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:36,800 like Cape Cod where they make it really easy or visiting someplace like this that has a 1204 00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,440 ton of history and other stuff to go look at. 1205 00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:40,440 Yeah. 1206 00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,160 Well, it's a good problem. 1207 00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:44,720 We've got good contacts in a couple of locations. 1208 00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:45,720 Yeah, that's true. 1209 00:51:45,720 --> 00:51:50,240 Mostly the Bahamas is one that is always tempting to go 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