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Hi everyone, I'm Emily.
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And I'm Vince.
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And this is the Lighthouse Lowdown.
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Christmas edition!
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I'm over here struggling. Vince and I got some...
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What are they?
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Ninja...
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It's a ninja blast.
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Oh really? Yeah, that's the model.
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And made ourselves some frappuccinos before this.
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So it's a special occasion.
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And that's because it's the holidays.
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Christmas gift from mom. Thanks mom.
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Shout out to Vince's mom.
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So I actually do have a history buoy today.
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Even though this is our yearly
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once annual
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Christmas episode.
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Now part two.
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But last time I didn't have a
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history buoy because we were announcing
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the winner
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of our giveaway. Which we should have
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done this year. But I kind of forgot.
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Was it the Tumblr last year? Nice.
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Which seems like it was a long
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long time ago. Only a year is kind
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of crazy. But so anyway
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we don't have that so I have a history buoy.
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So I have a little picture here.
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I'm going to be covering deck
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prisms. Which I just learned
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about the other day because my twin sister Carly
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shout out to Carly. Shout outs everywhere.
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She sent me one that was for sale. And was like
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have you ever heard of this? And I was like no.
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So I'm going to talk
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about it. So in the past
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you know light sources were all
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dangerous to have around
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wood because it was fire
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and oil and like. You mentioned
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that the other day. Yeah. Fire and wood keep them
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separate. Yes exactly.
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Is that yesterday? And so
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when you think about most
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ships like
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back then were made out of wood
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then you'd best find
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an alternate light source for under deck.
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Yeah most ships more problem. Yeah. So
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they made this alternate light source called deck
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prisms which became common in wooden ships.
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As you can see it's
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basically they cut a hole
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into the deck of the ship
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and place
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a glass prism inside
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so the deck of the ship is
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flush you know it's still
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flat. But there are these little holes where
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light comes in and then the shape of the prism
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expands the light source.
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So instead of it just being like a hole where there's like
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you know a shaft of light
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filtering in it's it's expanded.
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That's crazy. I've never seen
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this before. Not unlike our
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beautiful for now lenses. So
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it's relevant.
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And obviously this wasn't helpful at night time but
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it allowed for ample light when
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it was daytime. Yeah. And also
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wouldn't you know have
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leaks and stuff. That's huge. If you installed it correctly.
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And I have another photo. Were they mostly
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triangular? Oh no. There's
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lots of different shapes. You can see them all
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over the place. This one was pretty cool. Pointy.
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But there's a ton of them too.
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On this example. That's super
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cool. So is this
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are these all the same example?
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Oh yes. On the left it looks quite
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scratched. But on the
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right the lights coming through really well.
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It's pretty clear. I feel like even
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if it's not
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a clear prism
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light still comes through pretty easy.
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It doesn't have to be. No I've never
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heard of these. They weren't any pirate movies.
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No I know. I was like I guess
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it adds to the ambiance to have it really dark
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below deck in pirate movies. But
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yeah my sister sent me this. She's like have you ever
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heard of this? I was like no. Shout out to Carly.
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Shout out to Carly giving us an excellent
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history of Bowie to cover. But yeah
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they actually sell a lot of these online. So they're like
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artifacts
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that you can buy like from Viking ships
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and stuff. One of my references
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is from a place that has a bunch of Viking
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antiques and
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artifacts. That's crazy.
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And they have a few of these. Ship antiques
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are cool huh? Yeah. That's awesome.
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So do you know about what years
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these were in use? I know that
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the artifact that the Viking
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website used was from 1899.
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So I'm not sure exactly
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when. 1899
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for that one example. Yeah.
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That's all I got.
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But yeah that's our history of Bowie. And now
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I will go into our Christmas
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episode just like last year for those
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of us who have been around that long.
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I did a Christmas episode last
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year that I just
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covered a couple of lighthouses
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that we had already covered in
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our podcast and what they do
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for Christmas time. And so I'm doing
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that again this year. So I randomly
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selected some lighthouses
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from our past episodes that do Christmas
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related stuff. And I'm going to tell
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you about them. Did we also talk
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Flying Santa last year? Or was that? That was
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the year before that. What? I know.
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Oh man. Time is flying.
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But I do have a brief mention of
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Flying Santa in this one. So
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let's get into it.
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These are in no particular order. I just
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kind of selected some. So first
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one I'm going to do is Nubble Light or
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Cape Nettic Lighthouse.
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This was one of the staples
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for Christmas decorating traditions
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when it comes to lighthouses. And I remember I pulled
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a picture during the episode and was like
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I would talk about this
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but I'm going to save it for our Christmas
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episode. We covered this in
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episode 62. This is located
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in York, Maine.
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We have a few, I think a few Maine
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lighthouses here. Or maybe they're pretty spread out.
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I don't know yet. So the island
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that this is on is not accessible to public
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but up to 8,000
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people gather in the
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park across the water for the first Saturday
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after Thanksgiving for the lighting
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of the Nubble event.
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Which is very exciting. Is Nubble the one
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that had the
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baby transporting
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thing,
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rope and
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bucket.
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Check out the episode.
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Episode 62 everybody.
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But they switch a flip
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and the lighthouse is illuminated by Christmas
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lights. I got some pictures.
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They switch a flip.
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They switch a flip
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and
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boom, wow, there are Christmas
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lights in the sky.
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I'm not even tired. I'm just that way.
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Nubble.
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Very lit. They put
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lights around just about every crease of the lighthouse
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so it's pretty exciting. Really well done.
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All the outbuildings, oil,
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boathouse, they got it all.
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So this one's obviously like very
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popular, highly photographed
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type of event.
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So Matt Rosenberg
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who's the modern day keeper on the
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island says, quote, it has become
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popular enough that we now close the park
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to cars so kids can run around with their
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families as they wait for Santa to arrive.
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That's nice. The park's trust board
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serves hot cocoa and cookies
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to everybody. I believe they're free.
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They're live reindeer
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and the York High School chamber choir
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sings carols and then they do
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the countdown for the lighthouse
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to turn on the lights. Man, what an
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event. Always an event, yeah.
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The tradition of the Christmas lights
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started in the early 80s,
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1980s. Mrs. Margaret
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Cummings who lived on York
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Beach donated Christmas lights to the lighthouse
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in honor of her late husband
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and the Coast Guard keeper at the time
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volunteered to put them up and they were lit
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November 1987.
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they've just kept up the tradition. They add more
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and more lights and now it's
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like this big, big thing
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that remain on every night until
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New Year's. That's really cool.
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that they also do a July
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lighting for summertime visitors
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because like
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most visitors to Maine
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go during the summer when the weather's nice.
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just see in this picture that it's all snowy.
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event which personally
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Christmas.
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It's a thing.
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It's at the opposite end of the spectrum.
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There's no
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beach Santa.
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I've seen depictions of a beach Santa.
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That's when he's off and then not
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it's Christmas.
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That's when he's off duty.
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So that was Cape Nettick lighthouse.
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It's a big one.
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Edgar Towne lighthouse.
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This was episode 47
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and it's at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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And Vince and I went there.
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Didn't include any pictures from our trip
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because this
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is a Christmas episode and we went in
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August. Yeah it was awesome though.
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to that was kind of far?
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Yeah from the bus stop.
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It was fun. Edgar Towne was really pretty
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and they do. Big coffee. Apparently
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Edgar Towne is like the place
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to be around Christmas time.
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So any of our listeners who live
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around there confirm
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or deny. But it sounds like
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this place is popping around Christmas
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time. So this year was the 43rd
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annual Christmas in Edgar Towne
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event. The festival was on
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December 12th
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through 15th and the whole town is decorated
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and the lighthouse is covered in
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lights and wreaths. Nice.
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It's a really nice. Very pretty.
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I like there's different
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colors. So like
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you know, noble lighthouse is just like all
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lit, very red looking
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and this one's like we got
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drapey lights.
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We've got framing lights, wreaths
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all kinds of stuff.
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The multicolor. Yeah. The red beacon.
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I can appreciate that.
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Oh yeah the red beacon is nice. A nice touch.
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Very Christmas like of them. This year
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they had a most
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festive fit award.
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it's
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like elves.
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The outfit. So
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yeah. So you visit Edgar
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Towne if you live there or whatever.
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Elves quote, unquote
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keep watch over Edgar Towne
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from December 2nd to 14th
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and approach you
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if you are dressed festively
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and on December 14th
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the contenders who were invited by
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the elves return for final
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judging to decide who has
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the most festive fit. Oh my gosh.
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I like is that
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right? It just sounds crazy like
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you just walk around town
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in a super festive outfit and hope to
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be approached as like a contestant
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on this most festive fit.
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The elves must be employed
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by the city. Yeah they must be like city
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employees hanging around. Hired from Santa.
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So funny.
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So I thought that was cute. I think it's the first year they're doing
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it so we'll have to see how it turned out. Because
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Vince and I are recording this before
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this event happens. But when
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it comes out it will be after. So
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maybe we'll have to
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do a look and see.
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Crazy. Stores decorate their windows
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and visitors vote for their favorite
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one which I think is fun. So basically
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it's like competition between the
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stores to like have the
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most highly decorated window like shop window.
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Nice. And local art groups
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decorate Christmas trees for visitors to walk through.
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They say it's like a Christmas forest and then I'm sure
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you vote for your favorite one of that too.
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That's awesome. And Saturday
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morning is the parade
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which I saw one blogger
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who
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took photos and like went
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to this event and
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I got to see it from her point of view but
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it looks pretty cool. It looks
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fun. Isn't this a town where
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they don't need cars?
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Isn't that what we determined?
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Mostly. There were lots of cars driving
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around but it would have been better
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as a town with no cars. The island is
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kind of small. Yeah. Yeah it was the one
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where we took the bus for like fifteen minutes
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along the water. Yeah it's just big
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enough for a car I guess. Yeah it's big
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enough but yeah it would have been better.
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Out on Martha's Vineyard. Edgar Town
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has all kinds of events like light shows,
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wreath auctions, holiday
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cocktail competitions,
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cookie dederi...
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cookie de...
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Wait.
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I'm trying.
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I'm just trying to say cookie decorating.
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Cookie decorating
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and pop ups.
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And other stuff. So like
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that's a lot of really cool
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fun stuff in the town.
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Yeah. To have going on. It would be fun to be there.
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So now I'm thinking that we should
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definitely have that on our list for like some kind of
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Christmas trip. We would need a house.
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Excuse me? There's not a lot
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of... There's not a lot of like hotels
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I saw going on there. No they're around.
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They just weren't downtown where we were.
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Oh. That would be a fun family
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event too. Like your side of the family
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if we all just went to Edgar Town.
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I feel like your mom would love that.
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She would. It's just far away.
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Yeah. Got a plan on it.
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That's what flights are for. That's what money's for.
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Yeah. Money for fun.
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For your spending. But the
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lighthouse kicks off the Christmas
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and Edgar Town festival lit on Friday
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with free hot chocolate and cookies for all.
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Which seems to be a
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common theme with our lighthouse
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lightings. Free hot chocolate and free cookies.
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Like that. Yeah.
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So that's Edgar Town. I think that one's probably the most...
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I think it's because
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the town itself is Christmasy
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that I
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am interested in seeing it.
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Like I would go to see a Christmas lighting
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at a lighthouse. But
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when there's other stuff to do that's when it's like
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oh. Like holiday cocktail
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competitions. It sounds amazing.
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Do you think most people are taking the
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ferry to Martha's Vineyard
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for this? I don't know.
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Yeah. We kind of looked around. The house is
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near where we walked.
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Maybe it's not all that way. But they were
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quite grand. You know they looked
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like maybe they were seasonal homes.
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And maybe it's still
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maybe it's still locals but it's like
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Cape Cod locals and not
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or like people from New York or
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something come down. It's not people like
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us traveling from the middle.
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From the middle.
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Next one I'm
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going to talk about Split Rock Lighthouse
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which I couldn't find any pictures
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of whether or not they actually do
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holiday lights
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for Split Rock. And maybe they don't
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because it's the one that's on the edge of the cliff. I
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found a picture. Oh yeah I remember that one.
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A cool one with the snow and stuff.
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Cold. Yeah
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very cold. I'm thinking that's probably why they don't
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do a bunch. Unless there's just no photos
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of it but I feel like that's hard to believe.
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But this was episode 44
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and is in Two Harbors
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Minnesota.
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So chill little chilly. Every
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Saturday in December starting the weekend
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after Thanksgiving you can take a tour
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of the lighthouse and
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they do a guided tour of the Keeper's
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Dwelling and then make your own
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vintage ornament inside. And then
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you can either decide to decorate
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the Keeper's house with that ornament or
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you can take it home with you. Nice. Pretty
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cute. This is it's just north of
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Duluth is it right? Yeah.
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And also Santa visits the lighthouse
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for one weekend in December to take pictures
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with the kids for free. Busy
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man. Yeah. He's all over.
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Yeah so this one's a little more
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subdued but I thought it was really unique
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that you can go to the lighthouse and make
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ornaments.
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How nice is that?
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Alright I got two lighthouse
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left. This will be a pretty quick episode.
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I feel like last year I had better luck
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with finding
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lighthouse events. More like Edgar
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Town where
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I don't know. Remember like Saint Augustine?
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Yep. They had like crazy
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tree. Yeah.
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Tree scavenger hunt. Yeah. One of them was
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inside the tower. Love that one.
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So cool. Pretty cool.
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Okay.
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Next one is oh no.
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It's either
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Navisync or Navisync lighthouse.
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We do this every time.
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Navi? Navisync.
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I'll just say Navisync.
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But that was episode 54
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also known as Twin Lights.
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And if you look at the south tower
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because there's a north and a south tower.
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If you look at the south tower the day
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before December 1130
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you may be surprised to see
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that a tree has appeared.
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Oh yeah. I remember this.
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Another thing that I wasn't going to talk about
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until this episode.
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Here's a nice crazy photo
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that this person's taken.
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I forgot to put credits
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on all of our photos but
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I guess I'll have to do that later.
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Shout out to them.
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But this tree
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as shown in our photos is actually made
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of draped Christmas lights.
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And in 2008 Highland citizen
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Diane Micklewane
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noticed that the tree wasn't there.
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And she had just moved and she really liked it.
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And she found out that the people who did it
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before could no longer put up the tree.
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And so she offered to take
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over doing it every year. And they said yes.
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That's nice. I know.
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So every year 12 strands of C9
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Christmas lights are strung in the lantern room
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and lit until late winter.
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So they keep it up for a while.
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And they have a tree
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lighting ceremony on the day before
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December. And an event called
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Winterfest. Heck yeah.
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And you can at Winterfest you can join all
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day for tower climbs
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crafts and free hot chocolate.
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And they have like kids goodie bags
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and stuff that you can take home. I know.
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It strikes again. It must be pretty cheap.
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Like if you get the powdered version and just
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like mix it with hot water.
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Vince hates that.
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There's a couple things where I replace
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milk with water and Vince
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is like this is wrong. It's supposed
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to be milk.
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Like mac and cheese.
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Yes. Macaroni and cheese
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you use milk.
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I usually don't have milk. He needs some
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milk. We did have milk for our frappuccinos.
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So it's not a total abomination.
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Yeah thank god it wasn't water.
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How crazy that would have been. We just come
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from different lifestyles right?
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I'm making do with what I got.
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I'm some luxurious boy
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because I have milk in my life.
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You're just pampered is all.
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Silver spoon in your mouth.
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Milk in the fridge. Milk always in the fridge.
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You don't understand.
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Anyway wow derailed.
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Until 2019
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the lights had to be connected
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via an extension cord
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that they ran all the way down the
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banister of the light tower.
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And then in 2019
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they finally installed an electrical outlet
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in the lantern room so that this
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becomes a much easier tradition.
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It's kind of shocking they didn't have an outlet.
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But you think about it. Lighthouses
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are not built with electricity.
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Yeah but you can I mean I guess
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I'm in construction. You can run a conduit
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in a 120
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you can run a basic socket outlet
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pretty easily. And maybe they would have
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added an outlet if
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like I think South Tower wasn't
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used when there was electricity. Remember
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they had like a generator
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like as a backup. Oh yeah.
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And so they just never
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connected it to electricity.
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That's really cool. Yeah it's interesting.
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First lighthouse to have I think
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electricity. Good for them volunteering.
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Yeah woohoo! That's how we
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keep traditions alive. People have got to be
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passionate and
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take charge. Yeah that dude's
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wearing Carhartt. You can see that logo on his arm.
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He knows what he's doing.
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Those glasses and the Carhartt you know he's the
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man. See they've upped
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their tree because
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originally she said it was eight strands
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and it didn't look tree enough.
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But now you can see from this picture this was oh
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sorry this photo that I have up
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was from this year from Diane's
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Facebook page putting up the lights
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for the year.
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Let's go Diane.
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It seems that they've got some like branching lights
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now. They've got some horizontal
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light going on so
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I feel like they
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it still could be 12 strands
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of lights. But it's just like
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cause like here you can see the strands turn into
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three strands at the bottom.
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Yeah that could just be one that's run across
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and then like zip tied.
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Yes you're right. I didn't see the zip ties.
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If they want to reach out
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to us talk us through the procedure. Yeah.
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Love it. And our
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last one is Goat Island
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Lighthouse. This was episode 66
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the one before our
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last episode. Second to
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last light in the US to be automated
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and this was actually one of
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the original drop off locations
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for Flying Santa.
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So you know Flying Santa
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people go listen to our episode. I should probably
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listen to it too so I can get
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reacquainted with the
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tradition. But Santa basically
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Santa quote unquote
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used to fly around
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in a small plane
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and drop off
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necessities but also nice
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little gifts for keepers
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that were at lighthouses that were not accessible
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around Christmas time. And
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now it's been upgraded Santa in a
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helicopter. And so here's
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a picture of it in front of Goat Island Lighthouse
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which is one of the originals in Maine.
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And Scott
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Dombrowski who is the current
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like caretaker for
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the light also decorates the lighthouse
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with an elaborate display of Christmas lights
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every year. And I couldn't find a picture
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of that either. So it's kind of a bummer.
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Heck yes Scott. Go Scott.
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That's awesome.
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That's it.
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That is all of our Christmas
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events at lighthouses for this year.
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Maybe next year I'll
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target lighthouses to
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cover that will have cool Christmas
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events going on. At
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Christmas time or before? No
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at Christmas time. I'm sorry.
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Shoot.
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No early Christmas is
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blasphemy. I already think that
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Christmas in November is a mistake.
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People who are doing that
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it's a shame.
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She shakes her head at you.
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Christmas time should not be
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20 percent of the year.
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Should be
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less than 10 percent.
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People start too
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early.
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So what's
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the optimal date to start Christmas?
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December 1st.
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I went a little early with Christmas music this year
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because I was needing to pick me up.
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But I didn't decorate until December 1st.
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December 1st.
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And when do the Christmas decorations come down?
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New Year's.
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Day before New Year's.
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So that's one twelfth of the year approximately.
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Less than 10 percent.
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Indeed.
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Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from
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the Lighthouse Lowdown.
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Thank you to all of our listeners that have hung on
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all year long.
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Vince and I did not miss a single episode
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on time this year.
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Incredible. Big win.
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Incredible. We are big winners.
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Also
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to go along with that, Vince and I will
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be skipping an episode
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for the holidays. So our next
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episode is going to be
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released on January
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20th, 2025
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by Vincent Bailey.
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Let's go. So keep an eye
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out for that, but don't be alarmed when
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in a couple more Mondays
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we're not going to be posting an episode.
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We've got a little month break. We'll still
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post something that just says, hey.
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Hey. Check in next week.
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Next two weeks. Stick around.
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Don't go anywhere. Yeah. But
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we thank you and we hope that everyone has a
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joyful holidays and an excellent
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New Year. And we'll see you
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in 2025. Next year.
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And we'll catch you there
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on the lighthouse.
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Lora here.
