Episode 84 - Little River Lighthouse

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And we need your mic up a little bit. You're

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number two or one? I'm number one. I'm number

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one. Try it one more time. I was number one.

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There we go. Thanks. I love you, honey. I love

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you, too. Do you like your coffee? Yes, all right.

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This is half sweet. It's very white. Yeah, that's

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ridiculous. I was going to add extra shots and

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do all that, but it was already expensive. I

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totally understand. Thank you for the gift. Get

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ready for this gift. Hi everybody. I'm Emily.

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And I'm Vince. And this is the Lighthouse Lowdown.

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Saw some of those dance moves last night. That's

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right. We were dancing. We were picking our first

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dance. No, our wedding playlist. We did some

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dancing. Some couch dancing. We had to play each

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song and feel it out. And I kind of judge what

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song would be good by seeing how Vince dances

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to it. Because really, I have the most fun. And

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we have a picture of this from one of our friends'

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wedding, the one in Spain, where you're dancing

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and I'm watching you laughing. And that's what

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I'm looking for whenever we are out dancing,

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is I just want to watch you and kind of move.

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Yeah, I'm trying to get you to dance by dancing.

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Yeah, but watching you dance is the best part.

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Inspirational dancing. Yeah, I was kind of just...

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observing you last night to determine what were

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good dance songs. Nice. So we've got a pretty

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good list going. So. Speaking of lists. What

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episode? This is episode 84. 84. And I do have

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a history of Bowie. Let's go. Float it out there.

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And it's Maine Open Lighthouse Day. Maine is

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in the state. Open Lighthouse Day. Open Lighthouse

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Day. And this is an annual event that happens

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in Maine. It has something to do with our episode.

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What? Are you laughing? I just thought that was

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obvious. Actually, not that it's. Please continue.

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Okay. Yeah. Annual event. None of that signifies

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an event happening or that it's in. This event

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is sponsored by the United States Coast Guard,

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the main office of tourism. Maine, the state,

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Office of Tourism, and the American Lighthouse

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Foundation. Three sponsors. Yeah, I know. It's

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kind of crazy. But it has up to 18 ,000 visitors

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each year, offering a chance to see, this year,

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18 lighthouses that are not usually open to the

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public. That's crazy. Yeah. And there are ways

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to see the lighthouses, but they're very... unpredictable

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and usually you have to pay to stay there like

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kind of the access is reduced and so this is

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like a day of free access to all of the lighthouses

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that normally are difficult to experience how

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do they uh how do they staff them for such a

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surge like that i'm sure it's volunteers like

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all volunteer works it's incredible because each

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lighthouse is owned by somebody that have volunteers

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and normally it's accessible like under specific

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occasions so So this year, it's on September

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13th, so we're coming up close on it. By the

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time this episode airs, we're going to be less

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than a month away. Oh, my gosh. I know. And it's

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from 9 a .m. to 3 p .m., although some lighthouses

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have different hours. You have to check the website

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that I have linked in my show notes to find out.

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Absolutely. And the website also lists all of

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the lighthouses that are participating, plus

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what part of the station is open for you to see.

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The special hours, how to get there, and a short

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blip about if it's a current aid and who owns

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it right now. Really cool. And that list also

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includes some museums, such as the Maine Lighthouse

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Museum, which, by the way, has the largest collection

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of Fresnel lenses in the nation. Maine? So that's...

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Where is it at in Maine? I don't know. I mean,

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I'm going to pull up a map here in a second so

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you can see where they all are. We have a friend

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getting married before this episode even comes

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out. We're going to go to their wedding, and

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they are going to Maine for their honeymoon.

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Oh, that's right. Yeah, so I was asking them

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about where he's going to go, what they're going

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to do. Yeah, I want to know. I think Bar Harbor

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is the furthest north that they said they're

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going to, which I was surprised by. Yeah, then

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they won't get, I don't think they'll get close

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to the lighthouse we're covering today. It's

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like pretty far up there. Yeah, and we told them

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about another one, the one that was on the quarter.

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Do you remember what that one was? Pemaquid?

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Pemaquid Point. Yeah, we told them about our

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episode on that. I think that's further north

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of Bar Harbor, if I remember right. Okay. We'll

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see what names we can see on the map because

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it's pretty zoomed out. Cool. But yeah, I'll

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pull it up. Boom. There's the map. And I have

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an example on here of one that's available for

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people to see that's not usually open. It's called

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Moose Peak Lighthouse. And the location, and

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this is all on the website, says Mistake Island

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Offshore. Mistake Island is awesome. The buildings

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that are open is the tower. How to get there,

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it says the private owners will be making two

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boat trips, seven passengers per trip, from Jonesport

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to Mistake Island. And then it says please contact

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the owners of Moose Peak Light at the following

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email address for more information, moosepeaklighthouse

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at gmail .com. And then it says for those visiting

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the island on their own, the tower will be open

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9 a .m. to 3 p .m. So you can take your own boat,

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yeah, to get over there. And it says the lighthouse

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is an active Coast Guard aid to navigation. The

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light station structures are privately owned.

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So that's like all the kind of information that

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you can see on the website if you look at each

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lighthouse. And I pulled a picture of what Moose

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Peak looks like. And then the map shows all the

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participating lighthouses that you can go see

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on Main Open Lighthouse Day, plus two purple

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M's. Those are the museums that you can see.

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That's awesome. So you can see Owl's Head Lighthouse

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is on there. That's a popular one. Haunted. I

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don't remember that story. Did we cover Owl's

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Head? No, we haven't yet. I've heard of it though.

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I keep getting intimidated by the amount of information

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to cover by the popular lighthouses. Sometimes

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I put those off in favor of the smaller ones.

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Save them for the future somehow when we're going

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to have more time. Yeah, for some reason. I think

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later that'll be a good one. It's like, no, we're

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going to be busy forever. You know, for those

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who don't know, we're planning our wedding right

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now. We're getting married here in Kansas City.

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December 20th. And anyways, we're figuring it

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out. I was thinking about something. And so we're.

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Busy right now, but everyone I talk to is busy.

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It's crazy. Yeah. I gave my dad a call on the

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way home from the gym. He asked what we're up

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to. Anyways, he ended up asking, so what's getting

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covered today in the episode? I was like, I have

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no idea. And he's like, what do you mean? I said,

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well, Emily's presenting the information, which

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is every three out of four times. And I was like,

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so. I don't know. I learn along with the audience.

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And he was blown away. Really? Really, yeah.

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Has he never listened to our podcast? I don't

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think he's listened to any podcast ever. No,

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I understand. He's a heart surgeon. I don't think

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he's a podcast guy. No. But anyway, so there's

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a glimpse into the ongoings. The daily life.

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Vincent Bailey. But yes, so I have the map pulled

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up here. So everyone, if you have the ability

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to do and participate in Maine Open Lighthouse

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Day, it's free. But they take donations, obviously,

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to help support our lighthouses. It was National

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Lighthouse Day just a couple days ago. August

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7th is National Lighthouse Day. And I put some

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on my private account, just like. Some Instagram

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posts. Yeah, some cool pictures we've taken of

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lighthouses on our last trip. So 18 lighthouses

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this year. Right now, I think. That are not typically

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open? Yeah, or difficult to get your hands on.

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That's cool. What a nice idea. Yes, and the lighthouse

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we're covering today is pictured on this map

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because... Ow! Okay. What's going on? It's my

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elbow. The hazards of recording a podcast. Yeah.

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unfamiliar setting. On this map, I did a little

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blip, zoomed in. We're going to Little River

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Lighthouse, which is very far north in Maine

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on the coastline. You can see the edge of Canada.

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Can you point at where it's at for me? I see

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that it's Canada, but Little Bear, or Little

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River. I can't see it. I can't see the script.

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I don't have my glasses on. Can you tell me where

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this is at on the map? What? Where is the lighthouse?

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The tiny dot. I see the zoomed in. Where is that

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zoomed in to? The red line. Oh, okay. I thought

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that was the border to Canada. It is not. I'm

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not understanding what part you can't see. She

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pointed at this line that goes across the screen.

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The screen's like. Three feet from me, four feet.

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Yeah, I was like, yeah, that's the border. You

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said Canada. It's close. This black line is Canada.

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Oh, yeah. Goes off screen. I was like, things

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are much worse than I anticipated. So Little

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River Lighthouse, which I'm pretty sure now that

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I'm saying it out loud for the first time, I

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have a feeling I'm going to get tongue tied at

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some point. Little River. Little River. Oh, yeah,

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absolutely. Yeah, it's coming. Little River.

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Little River Lighthouse. Lil Wayne. So you can

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see it on the map. It's outside Cutler, Maine.

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And in 1842, IWP Lewis did his report that we've

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mentioned, that we've referred to several times,

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which really should be a history buoy. I put

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it on my list. And in his report, he said, quote,

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there is no place on the coast of Maine where

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a light would be so truly serviceable as upon

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the island at the entrance of this harbor, a

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small beacon light being alone required. Which

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is so funny that how speaking used to be so different.

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I was going to say, okay, all right. All these

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letters that we've read, they're all recorded

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history. Yeah. And they all had a lighthouse

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built. That's the sample bias. Yes. to the Congress

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or whoever the audience was, was so dramatic.

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It was. Never in the world has there been a greater

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need for a lighthouse. The suffering of this

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coastline and the constitutional infractions

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on the people are outrageous. And that you would

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write a letter, and this is not typing, that

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you would go to such lengths to make a sentence

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so long. Nowadays, it would just be like, we

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really need a lighthouse on this harbor. And

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that would be it. Like this whole sentence. This

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is before people had cell phones. They just sit

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with a parchment and stare at it with their quill

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in hand. It's like they would write a couple

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words and then walk away and then come back and

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then write another. Also, education was so much

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more varied at the time that this was like a

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flux. Like, look, I can spell kind of. A small

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beacon light being alone required. You're saying

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one small beacon light. And sometimes they would

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write this every year. They'd write these letters

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for years and years before one of them would

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be like, fine, this one's better than the other

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ones this year. Your voice coming through when

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you do that sounds exactly like, oh, what am

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I thinking? Oh, The Incredibles. Whenever they're

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at the very beginning, there's like some voiceover

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about. how superheroes were ostracized from society

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because of these events that happened. Where

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are they today? Oh, it's like an old newsreel.

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Here you see. You see. You would have a great

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voice for that. For the 1920s radio station.

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It's really good. I kind of like it. Thank you.

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No. Oh, sorry. Thank you. You're very trigger

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happy today with this. Caffeine. Really? Well,

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no. But yes. But, okay. Okay, back on track.

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So we have Lewis pining for a lighthouse at this

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harbor. Yes. The problem was that there was no

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usable harbors for ships to dock between Little

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River and West Quaddy. And we've covered West

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Quaddy. We know Quaddy. It's the furthest north.

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Where's Waldo? Lighthouse, yes. A little Where's

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Waldo stripe. They probably hate that. Sorry,

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guys. No. They're probably like, no, not, it's

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just red and white. It's just stripes, okay?

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It's not Waldo. Shit. But between these two lighthouses,

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there's two false harbors called Moose Cove and

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Bailey's Mistake. Hold on. Lots of mistake stuff

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going on. My last name is Bailey. I know, but

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it's spelled B -A -Y -L -I -E, like a bay and

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then Lee. Interesting. Yeah. So kind of cute.

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We wanted to name our first child Bailey. It's

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spelled like that. Bailey. No. Bailey Bailey

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is not welcome. I would never do that. I just

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wanted to see your face. I think our name was

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B -A -I -L -E -E when we came to the U .S. But

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they wrote it down the way it's familiar. I think

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from Scotland. I think that's where the name

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comes from. Cool. I'm not sure. Actually, they

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moved to Canada. They were Canadians who immigrated,

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immigrated, immigrated across into the state

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of Washington. And my family had the first turnstile

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dairy farm. What are you talking about? In the

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entire state of Washington. How can I not, how

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have I not heard this? I'm about to be part of

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your family. We need to talk to my dad. He loves

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these stories. Okay, yeah. I'd like to hear.

00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:23.159
Yeah. He knows them much better than I do. Yeah.

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All right. I like that. He should put that in

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our Bailey Bulletin for July. Anyway, no usable

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harbors, but there are two false harbors and

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these are just indents that are lined with reefs.

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And so if you entered it, your ship, you would

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crash. Gigs up. Yeah, like if you think it's

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a different harbor and you're like, oh good,

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and you pull in, then you're... It's doomsday.

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Can't back out. Yeah. Lewis believed a light

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at Little River would prevent any additional

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fatal disasters caused by mariners mistaking

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these false harbors for Little River, which is

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where you wanted people to show up. And so. So

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what's that town? I can't see. Cutler. Cutler.

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So the Little River is on a small island accessing

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a bay, a harbor for Cutler. It's yeah. It's not

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the false one. Yeah. It's the one. That is accessible.

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Yeah. But that's what they're saying between

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Little River where you would want to harbor and

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West Quaddy where you'd want to harbor. There's

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nothing in between. So they would mistake it.

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Like Little River wasn't marked. So they're like,

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it's one of these. Yeah. Yeah. So I drive home

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every day. And he described it as, quote, easy

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of access, sufficiently. Capacious. Yeah. For

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a large fleet. It has capacity, yeah. And secured

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from all winds. So a nice little harbor. I don't

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believe that. I'm from Kansas. Are you kidding?

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Everywhere's windy. That's not true. There's

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lots of places that are harbored from winds.

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I haven't seen them. And it's always still and

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like humid and sticky. And you're like, where's

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the breeze? You know. If you agree with me, like

00:16:01.850 --> 00:16:06.809
this podcast. And what about me? Love this podcast.

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We don't have social media. Try it. Okay. Congress

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appropriated $5 ,000 for a lighthouse per Lewis's

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request in 1847. And this was for our Little

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River Lighthouse, which is what we're covering.

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Let's go. So it is a conical 23 and a half foot

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stone tower with an attached keeper's house at

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the entrance to the harbor on a little island.

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Is it technically... Whoa. I was going to say,

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is it technically an integral lighthouse? Because

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you said they're attached. Yes. I would say by

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my observation in this photo, absolutely. Yeah,

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I would say so. It's the definition of integral.

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It is integral, but the tower is so different

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from the actual house. Like normally they look

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kind of similar. It looks like they're attached.

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But this is like the used. The construction is

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different for sure. Yeah. Like our white tower.

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Is it like a limestone building? I didn't know.

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It just says stone. I bet you. Both are stone.

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So it's pretty cute. I don't know what's going

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on all in the background. Like are these rocks?

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Are these sticks? It looks like a timber yard.

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Yeah, it looks like a mess. They cut down all

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those trees to build stuff. Oh, you're right.

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Some stumps over there. Like a mill area. Maybe

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to furnish the inside to do the framing and the

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wood floors and walls and all that. I don't know.

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Very pretty keeper's house though. Really nice.

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It's really appealing. Great photo. Only two

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years after it was lit and inspection revealed

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the dwelling was in terrible shape. Leaking,

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cracked, flooded when it rained the whole shebang.

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Two years? After two years. Jeez. They talked

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about how when it rained the keeper's floor would

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literally be covered with water. The house would

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flood from rain. That's not good. Yeah, it's

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dumb. But they didn't do anything about that.

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It definitely had mold. Ew. So maybe they didn't

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have much wood. Maybe it was like mostly stone.

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Because it survived for a long time regardless

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of that fact. And they didn't do anything. You

00:18:10.609 --> 00:18:12.109
can replace the wood. I don't know. Oh, really?

00:18:12.490 --> 00:18:14.730
Yeah. Like framework and stuff? Yeah, it's just

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labor intensive and expensive. However, a fifth

00:18:18.259 --> 00:18:21.799
order revolving lens was added in 1855. Before

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this, they just had like five reflector lens

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with lamps. And this changed the characteristic

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to have a fixed white light with a bright flash

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every 90 seconds. So this is the second lighthouse

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we've covered. I'm pretty sure in a row where

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they have a fixed white light that adds a flash.

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To be honest, that's the most practical. It does

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at any time you can see it. You want to. Yeah.

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And then it's still relaying. a pattern in which

00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:47.440
you're like oh yeah that's that that's that lighthouse

00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:50.940
yeah i agree with that so i pulled up a photo

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of the fifth order lens nowadays it's um it's

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whereabouts are unknown someone's somebody's

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living room basement but can you imagine walking

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down into a basement bar pool table dartboard

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like give me that bourbon collection and then

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a fresnel lens I'd be so excited. Well, I'd be

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excited, and then I would take it from them.

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I'd be like, return this. Wherever it goes, we're

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going to find out. Give this to the public. We've

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learned in the past how to tell, if you're lucky,

00:19:22.549 --> 00:19:24.789
how to tell which lens goes where because of

00:19:24.789 --> 00:19:27.809
the placement of the screws. Yeah, that was a

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photo. Someone saw a photo of a lantern, right?

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Saw it in a shop, I think. Oh, and they identified

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it to an old photo. Yeah, compared the two photos.

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Based on the brass placement of screws in the

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brackets, which is incredible. That is quite

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crazy. So fifth order. Yeah, so this is fifth

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order. It was added and changed the light characteristic.

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And it wasn't until 1876 that they started laying

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a new foundation for a brand new tower, as the

00:19:53.690 --> 00:19:56.609
old one was, quote, unworthy of repairs. That's

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an okay life, 70 years. It's not bad. Is it 70?

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Well, it was 1805, I thought. 1847. Oh, excuse

00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:08.099
me. Never mind. So 30 years. Still solid for

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one that two years after they were like, this

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is terrible. So that was a long, that's kind

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of a long story. So the new tower was 41 feet

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tall, lined with brick and encased in cast iron.

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Cool. It started out white, but was painted red

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with a black lantern room in 1878. Sounds cool.

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Red with a black lantern room. Yeah. And we don't

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have a picture of the two set, like. The two

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paint marks? Because for a few years, the old

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tower and the new tower were both there. And

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then they finally, a year after that, so 1879,

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the old tower was half demolished and then roofed

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over to like meld into the old keeper's house.

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So you can see over here. Yeah, they just like

00:20:52.450 --> 00:20:54.289
cut the tower off. We'll just turn this into

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the library. Extended the roof. Oh my gosh, that

00:20:57.309 --> 00:21:00.019
would be so cool. But you can see the lighthouse

00:21:00.019 --> 00:21:02.259
that they have here looks a lot like Nauset light.

00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:06.380
So like, yeah. Well, and that was part of the,

00:21:06.380 --> 00:21:09.099
part of the design. We see that recurring a lot

00:21:09.099 --> 00:21:12.420
was stone or brick towers with this encasing

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of cast iron, which they do in these, you know,

00:21:15.460 --> 00:21:17.740
here it looks like rings, but sometimes they're

00:21:17.740 --> 00:21:19.440
just sections. They're welded together, bolted

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together. And in the U S those have had pretty

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good longevity. A lot of them are still around

00:21:24.740 --> 00:21:27.480
to work really well. Uh, there's been a lot of

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cases of them taking the cast iron casing and

00:21:30.859 --> 00:21:33.279
putting it elsewhere. So it, I think it made

00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:36.180
it more, uh, flexible. Yeah. And they're really

00:21:36.180 --> 00:21:38.000
nice too. It's not like it was some replacement

00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:40.519
that wasn't exciting. Yeah. Like we lost that

00:21:40.519 --> 00:21:42.579
light was gorgeous. And we love skeletal towers,

00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:45.380
but those are like easier. I think these were

00:21:45.380 --> 00:21:48.420
a little more artistic touch. Yes, exactly. A

00:21:48.420 --> 00:21:51.599
little more old fashioned. Stout. Yeah. So we

00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:54.980
get a new tower and the old tower is melded in

00:21:54.980 --> 00:21:59.759
to the old keeper's tower. And very, it's like.

00:22:00.420 --> 00:22:02.059
It's part of the house. It's unique. You can't

00:22:02.059 --> 00:22:04.720
really, let's knock this wall down for no reason.

00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:06.759
Yeah. You know, so. And when I saw this picture,

00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:08.819
I was like, oh, weird. The lighthouse tower is

00:22:08.819 --> 00:22:10.519
gone. And then I looked at it a little longer

00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:12.240
because it looks like it could just be like the

00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:14.880
flat end of the light of the keeper's house.

00:22:14.980 --> 00:22:16.960
But. They actually built a roof line over it

00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:20.400
too. I know. It's pretty cute. Cool. I'd be so

00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:21.920
curious to see what that's like on the inside.

00:22:22.140 --> 00:22:26.000
I know it's gone now. Dang. Also, how much would

00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:29.819
that cost for us to build? An exact replica of

00:22:29.819 --> 00:22:32.039
the old Little River Keeper's house. What's the,

00:22:32.180 --> 00:22:35.259
I'm getting off track, I'm sorry, but the bar

00:22:35.259 --> 00:22:39.039
in Homer on the spit. Yeah. The Salty Dog Saloon.

00:22:39.059 --> 00:22:41.640
Salty Dog. So that, I think, has an integral

00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:44.039
lighthouse. I think it's part of that building.

00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:46.859
And I think if we go look at pictures, maybe

00:22:46.859 --> 00:22:48.519
if we get bored at the end, we'll look. Otherwise,

00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:51.799
search on your own. Salty Dog Saloon. I think

00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:53.619
I looked on like Google images. There's a pool

00:22:53.619 --> 00:22:57.119
table. And I think the part of the integral lighthouse

00:22:57.119 --> 00:22:59.980
is like in that billiards area. Oh, I think you're

00:22:59.980 --> 00:23:05.140
right. That the pool room is on the base level

00:23:05.140 --> 00:23:08.380
of the lighthouse. And then going up is kind

00:23:08.380 --> 00:23:11.019
of, I thought it was blocked off. I think it's

00:23:11.019 --> 00:23:13.480
probably not accessible. Yeah, it is integral.

00:23:15.339 --> 00:23:17.779
That was one of my favorite episodes. Salty Dog

00:23:17.779 --> 00:23:20.140
Saloon. Yeah. Well, and you were also going to

00:23:20.140 --> 00:23:23.460
be, like, had a chance of going there, so. Someday.

00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:27.319
One of these days. Anyway, yes, it is kind of

00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:29.900
Salty Dog. The original is kind of Salty Dog

00:23:29.900 --> 00:23:34.259
-esque. Not a true lighthouse, but. Sidetracked.

00:23:34.259 --> 00:23:37.819
It was on the list. Yeah. So by 1881, the tower

00:23:37.819 --> 00:23:41.200
was white again. So this picture was likely after

00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:44.960
that time period. And in 1888, the stone dwelling

00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:47.299
was demolished, replaced with today's wooden

00:23:47.299 --> 00:23:49.900
Victorian dwelling. So the one that we have today

00:23:49.900 --> 00:23:53.420
is still really old. It's just not the original.

00:23:54.680 --> 00:23:56.920
I have a picture of when they were working on

00:23:56.920 --> 00:24:00.720
that. We got an oxen in there. Cool. But yeah,

00:24:00.859 --> 00:24:04.500
it's small, cute, and nice. It's very Victorian.

00:24:04.859 --> 00:24:09.160
Yeah. It's nice. Looks like we're looking at...

00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:14.420
I want to say the left side or the side, like

00:24:14.420 --> 00:24:19.180
plan facing plan West. So as we were seeing it

00:24:19.180 --> 00:24:21.099
before, cause the tower was on the left. Now

00:24:21.099 --> 00:24:23.720
the tower is on the left again, but I think we

00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:26.059
are off towards the right standing facing left.

00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:28.640
Oh, like cause that the reference to the window

00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:31.059
and stuff, who cares? Like it's the side of the

00:24:31.059 --> 00:24:33.400
house. I think this is the side, not the front.

00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:35.990
I bet so. And then that's like a back door. Back

00:24:35.990 --> 00:24:38.369
door porch type of thing. But in this picture,

00:24:38.410 --> 00:24:40.289
you can tell the lighthouse is not white. They

00:24:40.289 --> 00:24:43.690
painted it brown. It's an interesting choice.

00:24:43.910 --> 00:24:47.589
Aggressive. I know. And on May 1900, the tower

00:24:47.589 --> 00:24:50.250
was changed back to white and remains white today.

00:24:50.349 --> 00:24:52.609
So they did like this random. I don't understand.

00:24:53.349 --> 00:24:55.750
Every lighthouse we talk about, we talk about

00:24:55.750 --> 00:24:58.210
how the day mark has changed. And sometimes it's

00:24:58.210 --> 00:24:59.970
like, well, it was orange with a black stripe.

00:25:00.369 --> 00:25:02.230
And then it was red and white. And then they

00:25:02.230 --> 00:25:04.349
noticed that against the trees or against the

00:25:04.349 --> 00:25:08.240
sky. What is the reason to go brown? Brown is

00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:10.019
very interesting. And then someone, enough time

00:25:10.019 --> 00:25:12.519
goes, and they're like, we should really make

00:25:12.519 --> 00:25:14.599
it white. We should make it white. Well, let's

00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:16.880
go back. Totally different than we have. I have

00:25:16.880 --> 00:25:18.579
no idea what would make them want to change it

00:25:18.579 --> 00:25:22.039
to brown. But white kept coming back, so just

00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:24.119
keep white. It's okay if they're all the same

00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:27.680
color. Yeah. I mean, ideally, you want them to

00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:30.099
be a little different. Imagine if Ocracoke was

00:25:30.099 --> 00:25:33.039
not white. It would be so strange. It would be

00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:34.599
strange. You know, like some lighthouses are

00:25:34.599 --> 00:25:38.380
supposed to not set red. Yeah. Red? White. Red

00:25:38.380 --> 00:25:42.980
accent. Half red, yeah. Yeah. Anyways. Sorry.

00:25:43.599 --> 00:25:47.680
That's a big block by that oxen. Big stone. He's

00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:50.599
hauling some stuff. Poor guy. All kinds of construction.

00:25:50.819 --> 00:25:53.359
Debris. Things going on in this picture. But

00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:56.079
yeah. One of the keeper's sons mentioned how

00:25:56.079 --> 00:25:58.259
they got coal to the lighthouse in the 30s. I

00:25:58.259 --> 00:25:59.599
thought this was interesting because we haven't

00:25:59.599 --> 00:26:01.940
talked about that much. For the stove? Coal access,

00:26:02.059 --> 00:26:05.079
yeah. For the keeper's living, not so much for

00:26:05.079 --> 00:26:07.660
the use of the lighthouse. The coal was delivered

00:26:07.660 --> 00:26:12.799
by boat in 200 -pound bags. And then they would

00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:15.440
take the bags and drop them onto someone's shoulders

00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:21.259
standing next to the boat. And they had to walk

00:26:21.259 --> 00:26:24.319
that bag. over the beach to the lighthouse. Oh

00:26:24.319 --> 00:26:26.400
my gosh. And it was just the keeper and his family.

00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:28.400
Nobody else lives on this island, so they just

00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:30.619
had to do this hard manual labor. They're like

00:26:30.619 --> 00:26:32.740
deadlifting every day to train for this. And

00:26:32.740 --> 00:26:34.559
they would do it over and over until eight to

00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:37.460
nine tons of coal was dropped off by the coal

00:26:37.460 --> 00:26:40.559
house. 200 pounds. 200 pounds each, back and

00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:43.059
forth. And he was saying the island is shaped

00:26:43.059 --> 00:26:45.359
like a hill, so you had to go uphill and downhill

00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:48.559
just to get it. On sand. Just to get it over

00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:51.119
there. That would be an incredible workout. I

00:26:51.119 --> 00:26:52.799
know. Yeah, they would have had to have been.

00:26:53.180 --> 00:26:56.539
He said, quote, every bone -wearing step of the

00:26:56.539 --> 00:26:59.319
way across this humpbacked bit of detached terra

00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:02.119
firma found one's mind filled with the desire

00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:06.440
for an easier way out. Like, drama. It's so funny.

00:27:06.500 --> 00:27:09.380
There's jobs that require manual labor, like

00:27:09.380 --> 00:27:12.880
in the United States. We have... I think it's

00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:15.000
labor laws. I don't actually know. But there's

00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:17.700
some jobs where I've had to do a test to prove

00:27:17.700 --> 00:27:20.079
I can move the reasonable amount of weight. But

00:27:20.079 --> 00:27:21.720
it's usually like capped at 50 pounds. It's 50

00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:26.299
pounds. Okay. Or maybe 60. Yeah. So that's the

00:27:26.299 --> 00:27:29.119
standard expectation is a healthy, uninjured

00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:32.599
person can manage 50, maybe 60 pounds. Yeah.

00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:34.619
Especially like package delivery. I think they

00:27:34.619 --> 00:27:37.339
always have to do that too. This guy, 200 pounds.

00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:40.230
200 pounds. Lowered onto your shoulders. And

00:27:40.230 --> 00:27:42.329
you're going to carry it across sand, uphill,

00:27:42.670 --> 00:27:45.930
who knows how many times. My ankle would go out.

00:27:46.029 --> 00:27:48.250
Yeah. I could just see myself twisting my ankle.

00:27:48.390 --> 00:27:50.769
Like pitted sand. Yeah, yeah. It'd be really

00:27:50.769 --> 00:27:52.829
challenging. That's crazy. At least the keeper

00:27:52.829 --> 00:27:55.970
had some sons to assist him with this task. But

00:27:55.970 --> 00:27:59.750
I think either way, collecting nine tons of coal

00:27:59.750 --> 00:28:02.809
is wild. Didn't drag it. Probably couldn't. Probably

00:28:02.809 --> 00:28:07.329
would tear open or something. So did they talk

00:28:07.329 --> 00:28:11.460
about the use of the coal? No, not much. I think

00:28:11.460 --> 00:28:14.359
it was just for their stoves and stuff. So you

00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:16.799
said nine. They had a coal house. Nine tons.

00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:24.099
Yeah. So 18 ,000 pounds, roughly. 200 goes into

00:28:24.099 --> 00:28:29.579
1 ,000 five times. So five trips gets you 1 ,000

00:28:29.579 --> 00:28:31.720
pounds. And they're going to do 18 ,000 pounds

00:28:31.720 --> 00:28:40.650
of coal? So what's 18 times five? 90, 90 trips.

00:28:40.950 --> 00:28:43.490
That's crazy. It'd be an all day endeavor. And

00:28:43.490 --> 00:28:45.490
that's assuming. Well, and that's like, there's

00:28:45.490 --> 00:28:48.609
several people. Yeah, true. There's several people

00:28:48.609 --> 00:28:50.710
involved. So maybe a little quicker, but still

00:28:50.710 --> 00:28:52.950
that's like a whole, and they only do that once

00:28:52.950 --> 00:28:55.529
a year. So I think it was just like this dreaded

00:28:55.529 --> 00:28:59.730
day of torture. Dang. I'd be like, is there really

00:28:59.730 --> 00:29:02.690
no other way to make this easier on me? I'm just

00:29:02.690 --> 00:29:05.849
a guy with family, you know? That's awful. Yeah.

00:29:05.950 --> 00:29:08.150
I've never heard anything about that. So it was

00:29:08.150 --> 00:29:10.259
very interesting. But he also talked about getting

00:29:10.259 --> 00:29:12.660
to school, another thing that isn't thought about

00:29:12.660 --> 00:29:15.259
much. As the keeper and the family were the only

00:29:15.259 --> 00:29:18.740
ones on the island. So he said, quote, Going

00:29:18.740 --> 00:29:20.700
to school meant a boat ride every morning and

00:29:20.700 --> 00:29:22.640
afternoon when Papa would ferry them over to

00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:24.920
the mainland and back. A lunch would be packed

00:29:24.920 --> 00:29:26.859
for each child consisting of a piece of fish,

00:29:26.980 --> 00:29:30.000
a cold potato, and maybe a molasses cookie or

00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:31.720
Johnny Brand. I don't know what Johnny Brand

00:29:31.720 --> 00:29:33.930
is. I don't either. Water was dipped out of the

00:29:33.930 --> 00:29:35.910
well bucket to wash it all down. Weather, of

00:29:35.910 --> 00:29:37.750
course, was a factor. And there were days when

00:29:37.750 --> 00:29:39.589
it was too rough to row the children to school

00:29:39.589 --> 00:29:41.529
or days when it was too rough to pick them up.

00:29:42.450 --> 00:29:44.069
Arrangements for the latter situation were already

00:29:44.069 --> 00:29:45.910
taken care of when the children would stay with

00:29:45.910 --> 00:29:48.829
assigned families on shore. That's so crazy.

00:29:48.970 --> 00:29:51.750
What a life. I never considered not being able

00:29:51.750 --> 00:29:53.450
to get them back. I'm like, oh, they just miss

00:29:53.450 --> 00:29:55.210
a day of school. And you have a good excuse because

00:29:55.210 --> 00:29:57.470
it's like I live on an island. Yeah. My dad has

00:29:57.470 --> 00:30:00.869
to row me over in a boat. Yeah. But getting on

00:30:00.869 --> 00:30:02.670
the way home, you're just like, oh, I'm just

00:30:02.670 --> 00:30:04.990
going to stay with this family. That's crazy.

00:30:04.990 --> 00:30:09.029
Really crazy times. Crazy different times from

00:30:09.029 --> 00:30:11.650
what we're living in today. Yes. Quite a few

00:30:11.650 --> 00:30:14.109
things have changed. And I think he had a bunch.

00:30:14.410 --> 00:30:16.349
I think he wrote a book or something because

00:30:16.349 --> 00:30:18.289
there was a bunch of different stories about

00:30:18.289 --> 00:30:21.309
living at the lighthouse, which a lot of keepers'

00:30:21.309 --> 00:30:24.630
kids do write about what it was like because

00:30:24.630 --> 00:30:27.069
it's so novel. Well, and you have time. Yeah.

00:30:27.109 --> 00:30:31.579
Honestly. Back then, especially. So the Coast

00:30:31.579 --> 00:30:35.140
Guard took over 1939, and they continued to have

00:30:35.140 --> 00:30:37.559
Coast Guard men stationed there. And this is

00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:39.640
from Lighthouse Friends. I just took a whole

00:30:39.640 --> 00:30:42.519
quote from here because sometimes I don't need

00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:46.299
to reword it. Yeah, they're a great source. Yeah.

00:30:47.059 --> 00:30:49.799
Quote, Upon being brought to the island by Bob

00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:52.539
Marston, Coast Guard Keeper Albert was greeted

00:30:52.539 --> 00:30:55.529
on the station's boardwalk by Bob's Beagle. And

00:30:55.529 --> 00:30:57.589
he said, after I was shown my room, there was

00:30:57.589 --> 00:31:00.130
a scratching at the door. Bob opened the door

00:31:00.130 --> 00:31:02.190
and in walked a raccoon that started playing

00:31:02.190 --> 00:31:04.349
with the beagle and eventually went to the kitchen

00:31:04.349 --> 00:31:07.509
to eat some of the dog food. He said, I knew

00:31:07.509 --> 00:31:09.630
then that I was in a pretty special place. He

00:31:09.630 --> 00:31:12.890
said the raccoon's name was Rocky and a couple

00:31:12.890 --> 00:31:14.650
gifted the animal to a member of the station

00:31:14.650 --> 00:31:18.099
in 1971. And that Christmas, Gary Sill noted

00:31:18.099 --> 00:31:20.220
that the fact the station's dog, Skippy, played

00:31:20.220 --> 00:31:22.240
with Rocky a lot of the time demonstrated the

00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:24.099
ability of people to live and work together under

00:31:24.099 --> 00:31:26.440
close living conditions. And the station was

00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:28.579
also home to three cats that Christmas, Junior,

00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:32.900
Stubb, and Black Cat. I was like, I've got to

00:31:32.900 --> 00:31:35.920
put that last sentence in there. Those are good

00:31:35.920 --> 00:31:39.559
pet names. Cats, raccoons. Skippy and Rocky,

00:31:39.700 --> 00:31:42.339
the dog and raccoon. Yeah. Rocky the raccoon,

00:31:42.380 --> 00:31:50.420
which is a... Oh, my gosh. It was a magazine

00:31:50.420 --> 00:31:53.980
I used to get. Rocky the Raccoon? Wait, let me

00:31:53.980 --> 00:31:56.359
double check. Maybe it was made by this person.

00:31:56.380 --> 00:31:58.680
Oh, no, excuse me. It was Ranger Rick. What was

00:31:58.680 --> 00:32:01.500
I thinking? That's not close. It's not even close.

00:32:01.819 --> 00:32:06.440
Thanks. I agree, but also, thank you. And you

00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:10.539
had Black Cat Stub, who probably had a cut -off

00:32:10.539 --> 00:32:12.700
tail. Black Cat Stub, yeah, or one leg or something,

00:32:12.779 --> 00:32:16.089
and Junior. Junior. Probably a kitten that showed

00:32:16.089 --> 00:32:19.829
up. That's awesome. I know. The station was automated

00:32:19.829 --> 00:32:24.230
in 1975 and the Fresnelans was removed. And this

00:32:24.230 --> 00:32:26.670
is when we lost track of the Fresnelans. Shoot.

00:32:26.750 --> 00:32:29.109
We have no idea where it is today. A light was

00:32:29.109 --> 00:32:31.650
erected on a skeletal tower nearby. Not like

00:32:31.650 --> 00:32:33.769
a lighthouse, but just like. Yeah, signal light.

00:32:34.130 --> 00:32:36.829
And Little River Lighthouse was left alone to

00:32:36.829 --> 00:32:40.509
deteriorate. And in 1993, the government offered

00:32:40.509 --> 00:32:43.490
the lighthouse to the town of Cutler, who didn't

00:32:43.490 --> 00:32:47.049
want it. And the lighthouse and the island were

00:32:47.049 --> 00:32:50.089
also offered to the state of Maine. The National

00:32:50.089 --> 00:32:53.490
Park Service and U .S. Fish and Wildlife and

00:32:53.490 --> 00:32:55.630
all declined, saying that the lighthouse would

00:32:55.630 --> 00:32:57.750
cost way too much money to restore and maintain.

00:32:58.329 --> 00:33:00.910
Yeah. So, like, our lighthouse was in trouble.

00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:04.619
It was offered up for adoption under the Maine

00:33:04.619 --> 00:33:07.440
Lights Program, 1998, we've talked about, but

00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:09.359
no one stepped forward to take ownership. And

00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:11.700
in the fall, the Maine Historic Preservation

00:33:11.700 --> 00:33:14.299
declared that the Little River Light Station

00:33:14.299 --> 00:33:17.380
was one of the 10 most endangered historic properties

00:33:17.380 --> 00:33:20.740
in the state. So it was like going down. Yeah,

00:33:20.740 --> 00:33:26.180
on record. Yeah, 1975, it was turned off and

00:33:26.180 --> 00:33:29.680
then left. So that's decades of just sitting

00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:33.279
there with nothing. But in 2001, the American

00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:36.119
Lighthouse Foundation stepped up and got a historic

00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:39.059
preservation license from the Coast Guard. And

00:33:39.059 --> 00:33:41.680
they restored the tower, a wooden walkway that

00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:44.339
went across the island, and the boat ramp, which

00:33:44.339 --> 00:33:47.819
then made the station meet the criteria for getting

00:33:47.819 --> 00:33:50.539
a new light from the Coast Guard in the lantern.

00:33:50.539 --> 00:33:52.460
Oh, yeah. So apparently they have some criteria

00:33:52.460 --> 00:33:55.500
that have to be met in order for them to sustain

00:33:55.500 --> 00:34:00.180
a light in the tower. Cool photo. The walkway

00:34:00.180 --> 00:34:04.200
that goes through the island, which is pretty

00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:06.400
neat. It's really nice. Made of wood. At first

00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:09.539
I thought it was like a train track, but yeah,

00:34:09.579 --> 00:34:12.639
it's a walkway. And then I have another picture

00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:15.000
of their, there's a Coast Guard helicopter. And

00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:19.739
this picture is when they did the relighting

00:34:19.739 --> 00:34:21.699
ceremony. So they made it this big thing because

00:34:21.699 --> 00:34:23.940
the lighthouse was really just weeks after the

00:34:23.940 --> 00:34:27.860
9 -11 attacks. And so they draped it with a 25

00:34:27.860 --> 00:34:31.260
-foot American flag and called it a beacon of

00:34:31.260 --> 00:34:34.239
freedom to the world to be relit. And it was

00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:35.920
filmed as a documentary for the History Channel,

00:34:36.039 --> 00:34:39.059
which I couldn't find. Oh. I couldn't find it.

00:34:39.099 --> 00:34:40.960
I want to see that. I do too. I know I was like,

00:34:41.039 --> 00:34:44.639
oh, it'll pop up, but I just couldn't track it

00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:47.860
down. And apparently it was the largest gathering

00:34:47.860 --> 00:34:50.539
in the town's history for this relighting ceremony

00:34:50.539 --> 00:34:54.500
on the island. which is fun. Everybody had their

00:34:54.500 --> 00:34:56.360
little boats going over. When, what was the date?

00:34:56.400 --> 00:35:00.139
Do you know? Post 9 -11. It was in October. I

00:35:00.139 --> 00:35:03.460
can't remember exactly the date. So those were,

00:35:03.619 --> 00:35:06.139
I mean, most people listening know this because

00:35:06.139 --> 00:35:10.860
they're older than us or our age. But, you know,

00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:13.360
post 9 -11, I didn't really pay attention because

00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:16.639
I was too young, but I've seen footage of like

00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:21.369
the first NFL game, the first MLB game. The after

00:35:21.369 --> 00:35:24.050
9 -11. Yeah. When things were trying to resume

00:35:24.050 --> 00:35:28.469
because everything stopped. And I think it was

00:35:28.469 --> 00:35:31.050
a Monday if I remember right. I think so too.

00:35:31.230 --> 00:35:36.789
But I was five or six. So I don't remember everything.

00:35:36.949 --> 00:35:42.469
But there was a lot of, it was almost you had

00:35:42.469 --> 00:35:46.389
to, you know, pay tribute to what was going on

00:35:46.389 --> 00:35:51.630
in the United States and the deeply hurt. Emotion

00:35:51.630 --> 00:35:54.570
that everybody had. Who had survived the several

00:35:54.570 --> 00:35:57.769
attacks. Right. Yeah. Almost everyone. But almost

00:35:57.769 --> 00:35:59.989
everyone was feeling that. And it was like. Just

00:35:59.989 --> 00:36:02.889
overwhelming. There's no other news. You know.

00:36:02.949 --> 00:36:06.210
Yeah. And so. If this lighting was going on.

00:36:07.050 --> 00:36:09.510
It's really interesting. Yeah. Post 9 -11. That's

00:36:09.510 --> 00:36:13.349
a big flag. I know. It's huge. But. 25 feet is

00:36:13.349 --> 00:36:15.670
crazy. Yeah. People needed. They needed something

00:36:15.670 --> 00:36:17.750
like this to go out to. People needed community.

00:36:17.989 --> 00:36:20.269
They needed to like lean on each other. So I

00:36:20.269 --> 00:36:24.690
think the, everyone keeping it in the forefront

00:36:24.690 --> 00:36:26.949
was important. Not just being like, okay, let's

00:36:26.949 --> 00:36:29.309
just continue. Like nothing happened. Yeah. Nope.

00:36:29.309 --> 00:36:31.570
Or just cancel everything. Yeah. Like, oh, we

00:36:31.570 --> 00:36:33.989
can't have the relighting ceremony. Scared and

00:36:33.989 --> 00:36:38.030
sad. Yeah. Crazy. Yeah. I'm lucky enough not

00:36:38.030 --> 00:36:40.329
to remember anything from that, but I do try

00:36:40.329 --> 00:36:43.889
to learn about it every year because it's important.

00:36:44.760 --> 00:36:47.800
I've gone back and watched collected footage,

00:36:48.019 --> 00:36:51.900
not for horror, just to understand what it was

00:36:51.900 --> 00:36:54.320
like because my whole family is older and they

00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:58.719
all had a different impact than I did. But it's

00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:04.039
very sad. One of the best documented terrible

00:37:04.039 --> 00:37:09.659
events. There's awful things that have happened

00:37:09.659 --> 00:37:12.260
all through history, but to have such a good

00:37:12.260 --> 00:37:15.059
record of it is really interesting. Yeah, I know.

00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:19.079
Just whenever like film was very, a lot more

00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:22.300
commonplace, like getting really easy to have

00:37:22.300 --> 00:37:24.599
your hands on, like everyone's filming everywhere.

00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:28.079
It's not like not even close to today, but you

00:37:28.079 --> 00:37:30.320
know, that's. Yeah, you're right though. Mobile

00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:36.559
cameras. Camcorders and things. Anyway. Anyway.

00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:39.179
A year later, 2002, the lighthouse became the

00:37:39.179 --> 00:37:41.920
first New England light and third in the nation

00:37:41.920 --> 00:37:44.239
to be transferred to a nonprofit under the National

00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:46.980
Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000.

00:37:47.219 --> 00:37:50.199
Third in the US? Wow. Cool. So it didn't catch

00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:53.139
on super quick. They're ready to go. The paperwork

00:37:53.139 --> 00:37:56.099
made it lengthy. But yeah, they were definitely

00:37:56.099 --> 00:37:58.659
ready. I mean, the American Lighthouse Foundation

00:37:58.659 --> 00:38:03.219
already had a license to like. restore it so

00:38:03.219 --> 00:38:06.039
i'm sure the coast guard was like here please

00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:10.679
take it and the friends of little river lighthouse

00:38:10.679 --> 00:38:13.099
was formed as a chapter of the american lighthouse

00:38:13.099 --> 00:38:18.179
foundation in 2007 to like take control of maintenance

00:38:18.179 --> 00:38:21.940
and stuff on this lighthouse in 2014 the lighthouse

00:38:21.940 --> 00:38:25.619
underwent a repainting project restoring its

00:38:25.619 --> 00:38:28.280
glowing white paint and a forest green lantern

00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:34.349
room And I could never find when they started

00:38:34.349 --> 00:38:37.489
painting this lantern room green because it's

00:38:37.489 --> 00:38:39.789
not like aged copper. If you look at it today,

00:38:39.869 --> 00:38:42.110
it's mint green. It looks like the Statue of

00:38:42.110 --> 00:38:44.969
Liberty aged copper, but it's not. It's painted

00:38:44.969 --> 00:38:48.929
that way. So they painted it this dark, like

00:38:48.929 --> 00:38:52.489
rich green. But as it ages, it turns mint green.

00:38:52.530 --> 00:38:58.730
So today it takes away. Also, what? What? There's

00:38:58.730 --> 00:39:02.909
literally forest behind the lighthouse. There

00:39:02.909 --> 00:39:05.849
are evergreen trees. And we just talked about

00:39:05.849 --> 00:39:07.570
day marks. They're like, well, you can see the

00:39:07.570 --> 00:39:09.010
tower. You don't need to see the lantern room.

00:39:09.469 --> 00:39:11.469
You don't need to see the top of this thing.

00:39:11.550 --> 00:39:13.070
It's going to have a light. I don't understand.

00:39:13.429 --> 00:39:16.170
I mean, stylistically, very cool. Beautiful.

00:39:16.510 --> 00:39:18.309
And there's some green over on the house. It

00:39:18.309 --> 00:39:19.969
looks like green trim. I think that's black.

00:39:20.349 --> 00:39:23.030
I can't tell. Maybe my screen is turned all the

00:39:23.030 --> 00:39:24.969
way up. Three feet is too far for you to see.

00:39:24.989 --> 00:39:31.420
We've established. But I don't know that I know

00:39:31.420 --> 00:39:33.280
of another Green Lantern room. I have not heard

00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:35.539
of it. No. That's why I selected this one. Because

00:39:35.539 --> 00:39:40.920
I was like, it's green. Hip hip. Nowadays, you

00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:43.280
can pay to stay at the lighthouse. So this is

00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:45.840
one of those that's like on main open lighthouse

00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:48.880
day, you can come and see it for free. But normally.

00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:51.639
You can only come see it if you're paying to

00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:54.139
stay in the lighthouse. Or they have an open

00:39:54.139 --> 00:39:56.260
house day, which are just like sporadically placed

00:39:56.260 --> 00:40:00.159
throughout the year. Keeper's House is fully

00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:02.199
restored with three rooms and one bath for up

00:40:02.199 --> 00:40:05.059
to six visitors. So you rent by the room, or

00:40:05.059 --> 00:40:10.139
you can rent the entire thing. Each room is $400

00:40:10.139 --> 00:40:12.260
per room, unless you get more than one room,

00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:15.860
and then there's $350 a piece, or $1 ,100 for

00:40:15.860 --> 00:40:18.579
the whole place. And you can stay between June

00:40:18.579 --> 00:40:21.880
1st and September 30th. That's awesome. That'd

00:40:21.880 --> 00:40:24.360
be super fun. So like I said, they're participating

00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:29.039
in Open Lighthouse Day. And I pulled up a couple

00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:31.579
pictures. You can see how it's mint green now,

00:40:31.679 --> 00:40:35.460
the Lantern Room. Just naturally, the sun just

00:40:35.460 --> 00:40:38.739
wears it out. And inside the Lantern Room, you

00:40:38.739 --> 00:40:40.860
can also see, which is the only way to get up

00:40:40.860 --> 00:40:44.309
there is through their open events. They have

00:40:44.309 --> 00:40:47.050
transportation available from Cutlerstown Landing,

00:40:47.250 --> 00:40:51.190
which is a 12 -minute boat ride. So they'll come

00:40:51.190 --> 00:40:55.090
pick you up on open lighthouse day to take you

00:40:55.090 --> 00:40:56.750
to the island and come back. And you can use

00:40:56.750 --> 00:40:59.690
the walkway to get there. And they also have

00:40:59.690 --> 00:41:01.309
open house days throughout the year for the same

00:41:01.309 --> 00:41:03.250
opportunity, but the lighthouse is not usually

00:41:03.250 --> 00:41:05.769
open to visitors otherwise. And I read that you

00:41:05.769 --> 00:41:08.510
can't see the lighthouse from the mainland, which

00:41:08.510 --> 00:41:11.690
seems unlikely, at least in the town. So like

00:41:11.690 --> 00:41:13.489
the only way. It's on the other side. Or like

00:41:13.489 --> 00:41:16.110
it's difficult to get there. Maybe it's private

00:41:16.110 --> 00:41:17.929
property all the way around. I don't know. Sure.

00:41:18.269 --> 00:41:20.710
They're saying like the only way to get there

00:41:20.710 --> 00:41:24.230
is to take a boat out or to specifically visit

00:41:24.230 --> 00:41:27.949
the lighthouse. So if you were to rent it, is

00:41:27.949 --> 00:41:30.050
there boat transportation? Yes. They pick you

00:41:30.050 --> 00:41:33.750
up from Cutler's. That's the same. Cool. Yeah.

00:41:33.869 --> 00:41:36.570
Really cool. It's very beautiful little island.

00:41:36.750 --> 00:41:39.110
Yeah. I mean, I think it's pretty small, but

00:41:39.110 --> 00:41:42.679
it's. Rocky and lots of trees, lots of evergreen.

00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:46.239
The images are really great today. Usually that's

00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:48.679
more of my focus. Emily doesn't focus as much

00:41:48.679 --> 00:41:51.579
on that. Excuse me? Because of YouTube. Who are

00:41:51.579 --> 00:41:55.539
you talking to? So if you want to see the images

00:41:55.539 --> 00:41:56.940
from today, even if you don't want to listen

00:41:56.940 --> 00:41:59.800
to the whole thing over again, go to our YouTube.

00:41:59.960 --> 00:42:02.059
You can click through and you should be able

00:42:02.059 --> 00:42:04.000
to all have each of the images up for the time

00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:05.980
that we're talking about it, which is standard.

00:42:06.199 --> 00:42:08.750
Nice. But are they going to be on Instagram by

00:42:08.750 --> 00:42:11.050
chance? No, I've completely dropped Instagram.

00:42:11.789 --> 00:42:15.449
So don't look on Instagram. I totally abandoned

00:42:15.449 --> 00:42:22.090
it. Yeah. All good. Apparently that was the stone.

00:42:22.190 --> 00:42:25.570
We are podcast firsts. Yeah, that's true. Whatever.

00:42:25.949 --> 00:42:32.909
Podcast first. He's going down. Both need a nap.

00:42:33.650 --> 00:42:36.179
But that's all I got. Little River Lighthouse.

00:42:36.260 --> 00:42:38.139
Never messed up the name. Didn't mess up the

00:42:38.139 --> 00:42:40.920
name once. Little River Lighthouse. Give me some

00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:42.980
credit for that. I thought for sure that I was

00:42:42.980 --> 00:42:44.619
going to butcher it at some point. Little Liver.

00:42:45.179 --> 00:42:47.460
Liver never came out. Yeah, Liver. Right House

00:42:47.460 --> 00:42:52.320
never came out. Yeah, we powered through. Really

00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:54.639
good. That is a cute little lighthouse. Very,

00:42:54.699 --> 00:42:58.840
it looks just like Nauset Light and has a minty

00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:01.659
lantern room. Don't know when that happened,

00:43:01.699 --> 00:43:04.010
but. Originally, I think it was white and black

00:43:04.010 --> 00:43:07.730
and red and black and all that. They're like,

00:43:07.809 --> 00:43:10.750
we could use green. Might as well. Sold. If you

00:43:10.750 --> 00:43:12.789
want to be the only one, you should. Can you

00:43:12.789 --> 00:43:15.550
go up there if you stay the night to the lantern

00:43:15.550 --> 00:43:16.949
room? Yes, the lantern room, yeah. That's cool.

00:43:17.130 --> 00:43:20.489
I know. Now I want to go. Well, it's a constant

00:43:20.489 --> 00:43:23.849
bucket list items. Yeah, $400 is not that crazy

00:43:23.849 --> 00:43:27.329
for a room. Yeah. There's a lot of lighthouses

00:43:27.329 --> 00:43:29.889
we've seen that it's pretty steep. It sounds

00:43:29.889 --> 00:43:31.590
like you can only, if you rent one room, there

00:43:31.590 --> 00:43:33.489
may be other guests. Yes. So you'd share that

00:43:33.489 --> 00:43:35.489
one bathroom. Yeah, that's true. Which is very

00:43:35.489 --> 00:43:38.409
practical for a lighthouse on an island. It does

00:43:38.409 --> 00:43:41.250
make sense. You're not staying there for a long

00:43:41.250 --> 00:43:42.730
time. We just have to buy the whole thing out.

00:43:45.150 --> 00:43:48.710
Yeah, that's it. Really cool. Thank you for sharing.

00:43:49.099 --> 00:43:50.760
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