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Hi everyone, I'm Emily and I'm Vince and this is the lighthouse lowdown
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I have a question for you. Okay. Is it like a okay? Why do dogs float?
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Is the bark and bark floats
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Because they're good boys our
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Poor listeners. I know I just saw it and decided for our history buoy
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The intro into our history movie that just be a little joke time good boys. Yeah, so today I'm going to do a
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current event
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Sort of history buoy. Okay current history buoy nice, Sanibel Island
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You've covered that lighthouse before I think that was episode 34
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We talked about how hurricane Ian hit it
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It was about 16 months ago and the leg was lost on Sanibel Island lighthouse
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It has four legs and one of them was knocked out by the keepers cottages that had swept out of the storm
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Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, one of them took out the leg as it was being swept out. So
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Nothing without you
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Trying to cling on wait
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Help me. Yeah, but it was still standing. Yes, and as of
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January 23rd, they replaced the lake finally
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It has all four legs originally it had a wooden leg for the past like 16 months and now it has
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Officially had its cast iron leg put back on and they actually use the pieces from the old
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Leg to make a mold for the new leg. So yes Sanibel
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Pretty cool. You old peg leg. Yeah, cool. So that's a nice little update. Yeah, do you have any photos to show?
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Do you have a photo? Oh, yeah, the left is a picture of the wooden leg that it had for a long time
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That is a nice wood. Yeah, they did a good job on it
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They actually cared and then the cast iron leg being put on January 23rd. Awesome this year. I think after this
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They're going to focus on doing like a recoding of the outside and the inside of the lighthouse
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But they don't have any plans right now to replace the cottages, which is kind of a big bummer. Hmm
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it would be a huge undertaking and I
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Don't know. It would just be yeah. I mean a lot of what a cottage is
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Whatever that English is is valued in its history
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Yeah, exactly not necessarily what it does today
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Mm-hmm, like it still has its historical value and everything but they'd be replicas. They wouldn't be like restored versions
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I don't know there's value in rebuilding but I don't know how much effort they want to put towards that when they're still trying to recover from
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Yeah, okay. Can you remember what this type of tower is called? I can't
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Skeleton
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Skeleton tower
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Skeleton tower
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I feel like there's another
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descriptor I'm trying to think of well where that you know the
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Cylinder that is the stairwell and oh, yeah the center, you know column. Yeah
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Pretty cool. I gave you an answer. So take it early. That's probably the right answer
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Okay, so that was my history buoy a little bit of current history for you and speaking of storm damage
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I'm going to launch into my episode today. The only reason I've been seeing this lighthouse
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It's actually all over my feed right now because of something that's happened recently
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No another January event that I will be talking about later, but we're gonna be heading to Bristol, Maine
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So another main lighthouse and going crazy on main lighthouses. It's not my fault. They just show up
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Okay
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Most of the lighthouses that I cover they just fall into my lap somehow like it's a listener suggestion or there's like current events going
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On or something like that. Yeah, usually I'm not researching lighthouses to cover
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They just kind of fall into my lap you mentioned that but you couldn't say anything else. What else is there to say?
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What are you talking about? I mean around the house. Oh before this episode. Oh, yeah. Yeah
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Go snow
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Sail to the coast of Maine in 1602 for areas to settle and I looked into the sky just before we started recording
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Cuz I was gonna leave it at that like he came here and found that there were it was already like a popular fishing spot
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For like Native Americans and like European people had already come over here. It's like it's not the first time
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Europeans have come over but it was the first
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When he came over here in 1602 is the first
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official
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recorded
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European excursion to Cape Cod
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Which is so weird because Vince and I are planning a Cape Cod trip right now
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We've decided that we're gonna go to Cape Cod Cape Cod. Yeah, and so what a weird thing
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He's the one who named it Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard. Oh
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Who is Martha Martha was his deceased daughter who was named after his wife's mom?
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That's sad and when they crossed it it was uninhabited and it was covered in wild grapes. So we call that Martha's Vineyard
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That's really cool. Really awesome and Cape Cod was because there was a ton of fish
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So
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Anyway, he was considered instrumental to the founding of the Virginia Company and Jamestown because he was like the go-to guy for
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Boating excursions. I don't know the Virginia Company. Should I do you not watch Pocahontas Disney's Pocahontas?
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I've seen it when I was a child
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Virginia Company
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You have to remind me
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That's like an exploitory group or their shipbuilders or I want to say that they okay. I actually don't know
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I just know that they were behind sending everyone to
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Is it a dark history John Smith off to huh? Is it a dark history? I don't think it's very good. Yeah
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So
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Bart
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So Bart just noted that he came across Pemaquid Point, which is what we're gonna be covering today
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Okay, and it was already like inhabited with very friendly Native Americans who had come across
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Europeans already and knew like how to trade like they had furs and they were really friendly and
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Actually Bartholomew was the one who destroyed that
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Sort of good feelings. So by the time that the Mayflower came things were very hostile
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Americans because of how he treated them bars. So Bart Bart Bart Bart
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Bart shameful behavior Pemaquid Point was popular for fishing and stuff
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But they didn't get a lighthouse until two centuries after that
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So it's like slow settling sort of thing and really just became this is a Native American inhabited area
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Um, I assume pretty much everything was
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Right, but okay. You're saying it was fishing. So it was like settlers were yeah, it was like a spattering
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It wasn't like an official settlement or anything like that
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But then over time over the course of two centuries it became something where they needed to add a lighthouse. So we got Pemaquid Point
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$4,000 was set aside for the light station. It was a rubble stone tower, which cool we don't
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Have good history of rubble stone lasting very long a keepers cottage with an enormous kitchen is what was mentioned
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I don't know what the purpose of that was but I actually have a picture. Here's a Pemaquid the station
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So it's really cool in this picture. You can see keepers cottage the tower and then in the back is the fogbell station
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First off. I like the fogbell station. I
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Don't know why I like the fence their white picket fence. Yeah seems entirely unnecessary
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They spent some time on it and then look at the ocean scary
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Yeah, very rough rough ocean area and this cliff is like pretty sloped, but I'm pretty sure it's like 40 feet tall
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Okay, so from this perspective, it looks like nothing. Yeah, it looks like we're right on the edge of the water
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But there's some distance all right. Even the picket fence is right up on the edge of where the rocks and
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Like the cliff stuff holding in the civilization, especially the like fog horton building. Look at that. It's pretty cool
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It's photoshopped floating out there. I know I think it's because the chimney looks like it's going underneath of it. Yeah, what is it?
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I think it's from this perspective. Yeah, this is the current tower. It's not the one that we got in
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1827 they bid it out in 1826 and I found a picture
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of the newspaper newspaper clipping that was put out like trying to get a bid or trying to bid
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construction for this lighthouse so
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1826 that crazy some 22nd and they kind of just say what they're looking for and somebody is like
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I'll bid on it for this much nuts. That crazy like what a weird
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Casual way to have something like this constructed. That's crazy. I'm trying to read this part covered with copper as well as the
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Something in something they do. I'm sorry. I couldn't read it
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I thought I was gonna be able to read it as well as the rabbit it shuts into maybe some
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Sort of time we don't understand. Yeah, I
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Couldn't walls of the tower to be well pointed and whitewashed twice over
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outside and inside laid a deke of soap
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Stan soapstone
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So he's gone. I wonder if there's any typos. That's a deck. Oh, ah
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Damn it. Good work, or if a deke is a word. I don't know from the year 1826
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I think deck is probably right. We don't need to sit here and try and decide pretty cool though. Sorry. Yeah, it is very cool
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I got that from the US LHS as per usual as usual
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So construction was completed in November of the next year $500 under budget and fixed white light went into service
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But unfortunately this tower only lasted eight years before they needed a new one and they put the reasoning
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That salt water had somehow gotten into the mortar before it was applied to the lighthouse
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Yeah, and so it just kind of crumbled. Did we talk about this before with a different lighthouse?
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I bet I think we're all of the towers we've covered so far that have been rubble stone have not
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For very long. There's another I can't tell you all the details, but there's more construction of lighthouses that I'm doing research on
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oh, yeah in the past and
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Talking about sea water in the concrete will be something that comes up again for the cement. I guess okay interesting
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Yeah, we might have talked about it before but
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So they build a new tower
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It was conical granite white and a little bit like ochre coke s is what I kind of think of when I look at white and chubby
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Yeah, like lumpy American
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Affectionately we say lumpy but it's 30 feet to the lantern deck
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I think I read that it was 38 feet total
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Okay
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And had an octagonal lantern room and current the current keeper Dunham said a better tower and the lantern never was built in
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This state and then he also said also the lamps reflectors and apparatus is according to contract. Oh
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Why even meant why even throw he's like this is the best tower of all time and also the lamps are fine
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The lamps are you know?
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Above and beyond I guess so here's a here's an old photo
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I didn't read a lot about anything other than chickens being raised on this land
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Mmm, but I'll mention later that it was very fertile soil. So, okay. There's a lot of a lot of vegetable and farming going on here
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That's a little property. Yeah, and this actually is a picture of the keepers cottage
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Before they painted it. I think they painted in 1875 to be white, which is what it is today
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But was that brick probably? Mm-hmm
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so keeper Dunham was the first keeper of this lighthouse and
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Served at Pembroke point for an a decade before he went back to farming which is what he was doing before this
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his sixth child Benjamin Franklin Dunham was born in the station and
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When his father died shortly after the new tower was constructed and he died inside the station
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So I don't really have the details on duty. Yeah. Well, he was his dad
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Keepers dad so I don't know if he went there for like care or if he was just like visiting and something happened
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But he was buried in a small cemetery near the light and by looking at the Dunham family history newsletter. I
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Found out that it was called Curtis Cemetery and I can't find it on Google Maps, but I'm gonna trust them
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They probably know what they're talking about probably on the property or says it's close close. So I don't know
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Well back then close was really close. Yeah like in the backyard
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So keeper Dunham was mentioned a lot because he first of all was the first keeper here for a whole decade and
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also because he patented a way to keep the whale's oil in the lamp from coagulating or
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congealing in the winter and
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Congress ordered the Treasury to start implementing it in lighthouses
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Oh cool, but we don't really know exactly how much it was adopted or even what his patent
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Was really like yeah, it's like you can't find it. You know that it happened, but can't find the history of
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I've seen several sources that say there's no record of
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How well it was implemented and then another one was like we don't know what it was interesting. Yeah. Yeah, I mean
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Yeah patents have a pretty good history. I know there's so many records that was what kind of oil
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Whales oil in this lighthouse. I wonder if that's why it didn't matter
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It's because it changed the fuel source changed. Yeah, that's true. I
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don't know the whole history of that
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Like maybe they found that if it wasn't whales oil if it was something else some other kind of oil
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It didn't work as well or wasn't necessary or something. Yeah. Yeah, cuz whales oil
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Was kind of dropped off pretty quick. Wasn't it? I don't know the history. I think so
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I'll have to do that again. I covered kerosene
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Yeah, I covered beacons in like my second episode
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But
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I was a long time ago. Yeah, I know there's been several fuel oils. Yeah of different types
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Isaac who was keeper Dunham also built barns on the property. I'm not sure if they're still there
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I didn't see them in the picture
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So I'm not really sure but he built barns and kept chickens and grew vegetables and everything
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He was actually paid by the next keeper one thousand one hundred dollars for the buildings. He built as
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as keeper so it was like
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Was he gonna tear them down or maybe the other the new keeper was
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Grateful and so he paid him like I'm paying for extra buildings
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Sounds like a lot of money
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Yeah, I know eleven hundred dollars in like the mid 1800s is
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It's weird for an individual to buy a lot of money
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An individual with the keeper to take responsibility and build these things
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Yeah, when it's a government job, right? Yeah, but I mean government property. I
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Feel like keepers aren't often. Well, gosh, I don't know. I'm gonna say it's not like they're fired often, but they are
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You know placed somewhere else often and later in history, you know talking about some of the readings
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I did for the West Coast Lighthouse Board
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Lighthouse establishment, I guess the board was writing some of those letters
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Yeah, and how they were, you know under inspection and it was like a military
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Placement you you shall sell the ox for at least $100 and send
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Handling yeah, no, like, you know do whatever you want to do, you know
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Well, if it benefited them although they didn't get the money so that's I'm saying
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It's government property, but you're building your own barn on it and then it's sold to another man who's taking the job
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I don't know. Yeah, I never I think about that. There's probably more to it. Yeah, I bet secrets secrets
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He returned to farming in
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1836 but returned three years later to be the first keeper of
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Nosset light. Oh nice. Yeah when it was still three sisters. Very cool done them
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Is it done them? I don't know
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There's Jeff Dunham is the comedian it's pronounced Dunham. I'm pretty sure you could be right then
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It's like Eastham and Chatham and all these towns
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I know but like I said one of them was not pronounced that way East Ham or maybe
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Chatham
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We'll find out I know
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I'm excited
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1857 the light gained a fourth order for now lens and it was actually after
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It's a little picture of it still in action today
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It was after some guy who was notorious for
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crapping on
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Inspection reports. He just came and was just like everything sucks here. This this is you know, he was really picky
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Yeah, he came and said a lot of nice things about the lighthouse, but then I didn't make any notes about this
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I don't know why I didn't he said the purpose of the lighthouse was like obsolete. It was like, why do we have this?
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He and he never said to take it out of commission, but he was like I would recommend
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moving it from ten reflectors to one like
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He was like this thing. I know it looks great, but I don't know why it's here
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So that's weird. Yeah, and then they gave it a fourth order lens. So they upped it in candle power
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I don't do was there any way that because I haven't read this I have to ask. Yeah, you might have read it like
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Interpreted it to where he's saying the ten reflectors is not necessary
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It needs to be one of larger magnitude or no see he was saying there was a new lighthouse that was built nearby
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You couldn't really see this light until you had gotten a certain point
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I know around the land and he was just basically saying I
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Don't know why we have this and then after that it was interpreted for me. It was kind of like
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Instead of suggesting that they get rid of the light they say he said we should lower the candle power
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If you're gonna keep it and then someone said nah, I said actually
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Increase it more power double it and give it to the next guy
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So that's how we ended up with our fourth order lens. I complain still working today
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So keeper Dunham was one of the like very few head keepers
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That were at this lighthouse and that was because like I mentioned it had very fertile soil. So it was great for
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Home live. I mean people brought their families here and then wanted to settle down like they weren't looking to go somewhere else
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This was like a great place to have a family. Yeah
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grow crops and have livestock and everything I read that the
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The people who worked on the lighthouse tenders hated this station because there was nowhere to dock a lighthouse tender
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And so they'd have to pull up somewhere and like carry all the supplies that were to be delivered to the lighthouse from down below
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I mean surrounded by this very strange sloping cliff
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Yeah, but what are you gonna how you gonna build a stair or a ramp into that cliff? Yeah, and then a dock at the bottom
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Yeah, and normal cliffs they wouldn't use a crane or whatever. It's called Derek. Yeah to pull stuff up and they can't do that
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Cuz it's so sloped you'd be dragging. I feel like they should have built one of those like the tramways that we talked about in split rock
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It's still be
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It's still be costly and difficult even if you're talking about a pier way like a pier way
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Yeah, a pier or so about a boat is gonna dock. Oh my gosh
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My English is broken. You know have your coffee my back is gonna dock
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But you have to have those peers go into the
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Sea floor and if that rock keeps going. Yeah, good luck. Yeah, that's funny though lighthouse tenders
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I don't know that we've talked a lot about lighthouse tenders having opinions
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Yeah, it was one of the few times that I've actually seen commentary about it
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It must have been pretty widespread that people are like, oh no, we're delivering to Pemiqua it sucks
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sucks
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1897 a brick engine house was built for a new fog bell which replaced the small one that had to be rung by hand
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So it's supposed to be like a night. It was like a steam-powered striking mechanism, but it had to have been
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Problematic in some way because it was only two years later that they built
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The fog bell tower that we have today which was run by weights, which is you know that like white pyramid
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That was at the front. Yeah that housed
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Clockwork the weights that went up and down for the boat and I actually found a picture of it in my main
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Lighthouses documentation of their past by Jay Candice Clifford and Mary Lewis Clifford cool
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This is what the book that I got from the United States Lighthouse Society. What's the US LHS?
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Listen to our last episode episode 45. Thanks. I'll just show you a little picture
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They have a diagram that was donated from the US Coast Guard
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I think but a picture of how the whole fog bell tower was built
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Wow, so there's a wow a hand-drawn sketch plans for a fog bell tower to be built on
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Pemaquick Pemaquid Pemaquid point drawings courtesy of US Coast Guard as an engineer
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I'm very intrigued by this. Isn't it the weirdest setup like
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It's the bell is outside unprotected. Yes
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Which is kind of surprising and then there's but you can't like the sound won't travel unless you have it
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It's facing the water. There's a dugout gutter
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Called out below the building and then this tower
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We've talked about has all this bracing and the weight is on a pulley system
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So I assume you pull it up you load it if you will. Yes, and then it would fall wind the mechanism and
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I'm missing some component of rotation that would go strike the bell or maybe the bell would move back and forth. Oh
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I don't know what it's called the hammer one ball on the inside. I think it was supposed to be a striking. It's that
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It's like a mallet. Yeah, but I don't think it shows how the pulley system
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It's like a sledge hammer back and hits it. I'd be fascinated. I like mechanical. We should look it up. I think
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That's probably something we should cover
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But yeah, this is really cool image. I think it's that it struck every 10 seconds when it was wound
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I don't know how often it needed to be wound up, but pretty cool. That is cool
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Man the the work that people had to do to do something like that
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I know that is wild to me. It would be crazy and like them just building it and be like, all right
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Here's how you operate it and it's like, okay
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I can't ask anybody else about this
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You know, like you wouldn't be able to call some toll-free number and be like I'm having a problem with my belt tower
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Send it back to Amazon
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So, yeah, that's the house that we see today and I'm going to be talking about it a little bit later as well
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Somewhere around this time. They added brick veneer to the inside of the light tower. I don't know what brick veneer is
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Well veneer in general is like a case. Oh, yeah
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It's a it's a thin layer that covers. Okay, so it's often used to make them look nicer
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It's not structural usually okay. It's like teeth veneers veneer teeth
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But why would they in veneer teeth are a layer over your teeth? Yeah, that's really an aesthetic
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Yeah, yeah, so how would they I?
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Mean you can do like cheap home renovation
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Backsplash veneer was it really just like for looking nice or maybe it was deteriorating as a way to see what covered it
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Yeah, kind of air quotes waterproof it again. I don't know
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I didn't look too deep into it, but at the same time they also added a cast-iron spiral staircase
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So that's pretty cool and these were restored in 2010. They did a big restoration. So this is when
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They did the veneer and start no that was sometime around like
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Almost 1900. Okay, but that that
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Cast iron is still there. Yeah, that's really cool
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That's another thing to learn more about because that's in a lot of lighthouse towers these cast iron stair treads and
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Handrails and stuff. Yeah for some reason that's fascinating because I would love to know who built them
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Like where did you order?
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You had to order the stairs from because they're pretty intricate usually they're not very well built
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I had to order the stairs from because they're pretty intricate. Usually they're not just like yeah pieces of cast iron
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They're like they're nice. Yeah. Well remember keep disappointment
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The Oriole the ship that wrecked the Oriole had like several lantern rooms and all of the cast iron in it
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Oh stair towers and railings and stuff boom just in the ocean and it had come
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I love Cape disappointments over on the west coast for you
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We don't know and I think all of that had come from Boston or somewhere up Northeast. So it had come all the way around
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Oh, yeah, I'm saying that wrecked
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Tragic order all new irons again. Oh
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Just had to have been so there's nothing to do about it. It's just awful
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So Pimaquod point was one of the first lighthouses in Maine to transition to automatic and this was in
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1934 so before the Coast Guard even took over
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Which is like really early. They don't there's not a light a lighthouse is mentioned that go fully automatic interesting
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Yeah, that's really good. Yeah, and it was around this time also that the light was switched to a flashing white and I couldn't find the
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exact date for that unless I'm misinterpreting
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the US LHS light list I think
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Yeah, I don't know. I'm pretty sure it was around the same time
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Okay, then it went flashing a few years after that actually a year after the Coast Guard took over Bristol residents voted to purchase the station
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besides the light which remained with the Coast Guard and
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paid the government
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$1,639 over a period of four years that they could own it and
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Then it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in
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1985 and I actually I found a picture of the
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The application for that and it's just a lot simpler than I
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Expected it to be for some reason, you know, there's not really much to it. Yeah, it's a nice little form. Yeah, I
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It's stamped received February 2nd or 22nd
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Yeah, and then April 16th was when it was entered as a national as I like a historic places protection thing
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I thought about this. I don't mean to take anything away from Pemmaquid Pemmaquid. Yeah, that sounds wrong to me
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I'm reading it on screen. I look it up and it says Pemmaquid
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So not taking anything away from Pemmaquid point, but there are there's gonna be so many dang places including lighthouses
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on the National Register of Historic Places and
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I did wonder how that how that works and what it means for protection and for
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Yeah, renovation and things because every lighthouse that we
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We mentioned it. This is a national historic place like wow
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Just like and this is when it was added, you know, it's like it's sort of a gift
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It is yeah lighthouses to be added like to go a step further than that is whenever you get
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Gosh, what is it called like preservation?
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It's a landmark something national historic landmark. Okay, that's like the special one
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When most places are already in ash like registered places
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Yes, then it goes a step further by being a national historic landmark. I mean, I think that's the one where
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You're like one of the big dogs. Hmm
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Interesting. Anyway, that is cool. The tower itself was licensed to the American Lighthouse Foundation in
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2000 so the Coast Guard licensed it to this foundation after the 2000 was like some kind of it's like main lighthouse
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Law or something that was passed
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I can't remember exactly what it was, but they had a couple of restorations over the years in
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2007 for the exterior and 2010 for some of the internal components, which I talked about earlier
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But in 2007 they found a hidden window while we doing the exterior and I couldn't find a picture online
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But they said it was wild well documented
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They said the Masons noticed the granite work closing the window was of poorer quality than the original work
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Meaning that it was done later for some unknown reason so they just recovered it back up whenever they did the restoration
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the
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Uncovered the window uncovered it found it and then recovered it
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Like we're doing all the work they're like well, they're like we don't there's probably good reason for this bad vibes
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It's a haunted window
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So covered it back up and I couldn't find a photo. I'm sure if I sent some emails, I'd be able to hunt one down
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I wonder if it's like a little port window or something. I don't know it didn't specify if it was
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Identical to other windows and like you know a lot of times they covered up windows that were
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Sea-facing that would get hit with like waves and bad weather and would break all the time
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So then they would just be like, okay, just cut we don't need it. Just cover it up. Yeah
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So maybe it was something like that
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Interesting, I think they said it was an east-facing east-facing window
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So a Pemacood points still running today white flash every summer
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points still running today white flash every six seconds from their fourth order lens still up there and
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It's featured on the state quarter. No way. Yeah main quarter has Pemacood point on it. Wow, that's cool
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Isn't that awesome? I've never seen that before. I know now
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I really want one and I feel like I've seen it before but before I became lighthouse Correza
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If I wouldn't really pay attention, I'm gonna be looking through all my quarters now trying to find Pemacood
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Well, they did a good job actually. Yeah, it looks great. It looks
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very real
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Realistic and accurate the fence is right. Of course
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They always do a really good job on the quarters with detail. I didn't know that
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Yeah, if you look at a quarter, they're always like even the eagle on like the normal one is really nice
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Well, but I mean this is not only is this highly featured, but it's accurate. Look at the stones variations. Oh
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They're missing the
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pyramid column on the fog house I
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Can't believe it absolutely
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Someone had to fight to the death to get that picket fence, right?
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And then the stone work they had to like I cannot believe they put the quarter making mint
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Little evergreen tree
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Yeah, they went all out but that's really neat and birds and everything 1820 pretty cool
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I gotta keep my eye out now for one of those quarters
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So back to the reason why I kept seeing this lighthouse all over my feet
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This is like another current event thing January 10th of this year 2024
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For lighthouses, yeah, maybe a little
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A huge storm hit the coast of Maine. I don't know if you heard anything about it
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I think just because I follow a lot of lighthouses is on Instagram. I saw a bunch of it
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But there's 79 mile-per-hour winds and a storm surge of up to five feet on top of an already historically high
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high tide so it was like a new moon or something and they're like, oh we have got really really
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Strange high tides and then they found out there was gonna be a big storm hitting and they're like, oh boy
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There's gonna be some serious flooding. Yeah, I'll show you on this graph, but
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They were supposed to be flooding even with just the high tide
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Like the tide was so high that it was gonna be flooding and then you add a five foot storm surge and suddenly everything is flooded
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Five feet is a lot of water elevation. Yeah, here's a picture
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shows
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Areas of minor flooding moderate and major flooding the blue is what they predicted
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This high tide was going to be so you can see some of them are already in minor flooding area
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Then the red is where they had after the storm. So it was really really bad news for oh, these are days
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Oh, no
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After that there was a storm January 10th January 13th a storm of very similar intensity hit
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Back to back like right after that they got two storms
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So a lot of lighthouses took damage and they did this whole I might have okay in on that
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It was a huge deal they did I mean there's still so much work and cleanup and
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Restorations to be done because of these back back storms
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But awful because of the combination of high winds and the crazy tide that there was these ginormous waves hitting
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Areas that weren't well equipped for getting hit with waves because normally the water is not up that high and that included a Pimaquid
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point lighthouse which
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Is far up enough that maybe they don't get as much of this like crazy weather when there are storms
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So the tower itself were made unscathed, but the fogbell house was severely damaged. I got a picture
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It's like half of its walls are missing. Oh my gosh. No, isn't that awful? That's terrible
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I bet there's rocks and all sorts shingles torn up. They have really
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They have pictures of from the back. You can see just the sunlight coming through. It's really wild. That's crazy
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There's two of the four walls are gone
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You can even see damage to the keepers house in the back parts of the slating side like the siding is gone
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That is epic. Yeah, it's took some serious damage
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Luckily the bell the one that was forged in 1840s was not damaged
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You can see where it would be hanging up at the front of the lighthouse or the yeah fog tower wasn't damaged because they
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Removed it because the wood was rotting. Okay, so they removed it early
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In the year in August I think and so it didn't it wasn't like a subject of damage for the storm
420
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Is that the bell there inside? That's I think either a replica or
421
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I assume today. This is used for an exhibit. Yeah, you can go in and look at it. I mean not currently. Yeah, man
422
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That sucks. Yeah, so this was January 10th when this happened and they knew three days later
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They were gonna get another storm. So they were like we're going to be
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hauling ass trying to get this
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Protected so that it's like not just open getting hit with the same kind of storm
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It's still there after the 13th storm. So someone in a coat there. Oh, yeah
427
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Is it a little bit of scale? They sent a lot of people out. Yeah a lot of assessments
428
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I actually have a picture of it
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They did a damage assessment by helicopter because of a lot of lighthouses in Maine are like out on islands or like on
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Points and stuff that are not very accessible. So they sent
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And I have the track of the helicopter went to each lighthouse and like circled it taking
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Photos and like figuring out how extensive the damage was
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So they can kind of get a plan for how they're going to start restoring all of the lighthouses. It is so it's like
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23 lighthouses they checked on and i'm pretty sure nearly all of them have taken damage
435
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Some some degree or another and the us lhs made a video along with the american lighthouse
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Foundation, I think they teamed up and made a video that was just kind of showing like
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We need your help things
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Like this was really bad for lighthouses and like we're losing history. Yeah, we have to protect it
439
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We need to raise money
440
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So, um, I have the link to that video and i'm gonna put it in the show notes
441
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Okay, you and I can watch it if you want to but yeah, it's really sad lighthouses
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Man in the state that we're in they all they already need support just like
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Maintain let alone, you know facing storms and events like this. Yeah, that is uh, really unfortunate
444
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It's awful and there's nothing you can really do about it. I mean, it's not
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Because of negligence or anything. It's just being so close to the water. Sometimes freak
446
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storms happen and
447
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Well, it's the it's in some way. It's a sense of respect for lighthouses and yeah in the historical role
448
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because
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Maybe not a storm like that, but
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Maybe you know you'd lose a couple ships of people
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To
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00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:21,880
Accidents if they didn't know if they didn't have use of a lighthouse. Yeah throughout, you know all of history
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00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,880
That's a very broad statement
454
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:29,720
Yeah, they're they're not in very protected places usually. Yeah, so this is the helicopter
455
00:36:29,720 --> 00:36:33,880
Yeah, this is a picture of the helicopter route and um, pemicoid point is on there
456
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But there's all I mean all over the place
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Especially all these that are really far out and if they didn't do this
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You would only hear from word of mouth from the keepers or whoever goes out there to check
459
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,040
What was the damage that was done to this light all the way out?
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00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:54,280
You know mount desert rock like what happened out there. I don't know. We're gonna have to go check so it went to 23 lights
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total distance of
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242.58 miles
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That's crazy. That's cool. They did that watch the video after this that shows all the lights
464
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Watch the video after this that shows all the pictures taken of I think it's like a three and a half minute video
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Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's how I knew about pemicoid point and why I decided to cover it's because really
466
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This it didn't number on main lighthouses this storm the series of storms
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So they're pretty desperate to start raising money
468
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I think they're doing an official disaster assessment to see like what the damage is besides lighthouses
469
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:35,640
You know like the government's doing a disaster assessment so then we can find out more about what it's gonna take to
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Fix everything and rebuild because I know even in some places there's I mean
471
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:45,560
There's a lot of history that was lost in this storm like boathouses historical boathouses and like some fishing shacks
472
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:51,000
I heard there was only three left in this town and there used to be a bunch but like one by one they've just been
473
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Knocked out in this storm took out all three so they didn't have no more of these fish fishing shacks that were
474
00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:02,680
Like they said there was a lot of revenue brought to the city because people would get married here and take pictures in front of them
475
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Like for their wedding party and stuff. I'm like, oh my god, and there's nothing you can do to take it back
476
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:12,240
You just it's like okay. I guess that's over. Let's see rebuild them, but it's not the same
477
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,760
Yeah, there's something different about that preservation versus
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Replica. Yeah, it's a sad note, but that's pemicoid point lighthouse. Yeah. Well, I'm glad it's still there and yes that is
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Yeah, the lighthouse itself. Sorry. No, you're good. I'm gonna talk now
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The lighthouse itself in that photo
481
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Didn't look too damaged no compared to the fog stayed stays
482
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Yeah, I think most of the damage that they wrote they found and recorded were not to lighthouse towers
483
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There's some but not like it's no towers
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Unsalvageable or anything no legs missing. Yeah
485
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They've seen worse. Well the Atlantic Ocean. It's one of those big ones
486
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,840
One of the big ones. Things like this happen. Well, cool good coverage. Yeah, thank you
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I know our two of our close friends who may be on this podcast at some point
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Visited Maine and oh Alan talked to me about going up there
489
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:12,880
He really liked it and you and I looked at the Acadia National Park recently when I was looking around
490
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:17,760
Yeah, it looks beautiful that whole area. I would love to go to Maine. That'd be so much fun
491
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:24,280
Yep, let's uh, I'll probably talk about it in our lighthouse tourism, which may or may not be an upcoming episode
492
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:29,440
Excellent. I'm very excited. I guess I don't have anything to add on top of that. We're
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Check out of our check out our Instagram. We got some cool pictures on there
494
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We got a YouTube where you can watch as we talk through everything in the episode visually, which is kind of nice
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I don't know. You got anything dad? No
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YouTube is my my thing. I don't know
497
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:51,880
YouTube is my my thing. I spend most my time on and I really appreciate everybody that's checking us out there
498
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,000
Yeah, that's all I ask it. Just check it out
499
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Yeah, we we put a lot of hours into this show. So I appreciate it
500
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and then the other thing I I do is linkedin and
501
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So far I haven't really done anything with LinkedIn
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But you know someone reached out to us recently on YouTube
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They made a comment and said hey, you know, I was actually a part of I'm gonna misquote her but forgive me
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She was a part of she's the brother light
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Yeah, she's a keeper at East brother light station during the kovat times and they lost power for
506
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:31,640
Months. Yeah. Yeah, she had to deal with some stuff. So she I asked that she reach out to our email to talk to us
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But I also looked her up on LinkedIn and it's fun because it's like that's my idea with LinkedIn
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Is that it's gonna be a way that we can be professional in approaching people in the lighthouse community
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rather than you know me on Facebook or via
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Email just a random guy on an email. I can say well, this is what we do. Here's our little profile and
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Either way, so it's been fun to to have that and there's about 300 people that are following us on LinkedIn
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And aside from the professional stuff, it's always nice whenever listeners just message us on Instagram like send us a DM
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For anything at all or you can send us an email the lighthouse lowdown at gmail.com or you can go to our website
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There's a way for you to leave notes there that'll go straight to our emails or you can leave a voicemail, which is always fun
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We've gotten a couple of those now
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Yeah, we love to get messages from people we get a lot of fun stuff and hate since we're going to Cape Cod
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If you have any suggestions for places we could go look, please do let us know. I'm kind of I'm overrunning our trip with stamps
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US LHS passport stamps. We'll talk about it. I think I think I'm pretty sure pretty certain
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We're I'm gonna cover lighthouse tourism as an episode. You think we'll cover how we're preparing for our Cape Cod trip
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Yeah, and we'll probably ask for some more input at that time. Yeah, so so we're super excited. We can't wait to go
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Yeah, thanks for joining. We hope everyone had a great time and come back to us again soon
