Episode 88 - Point Betsie Lighthouse

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Hey, hey, hey, it's Lighthouse Lowdown. Hi, everybody.

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

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Lowdown. It kind of started before I was ready.

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I mean, I'm ready, but... Yeah, I didn't mean

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to put my singing... the lighthouse thing in

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there, but you know, it's a good start. I was

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like, well, it's better now than, than later.

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So there's some chaotic energy. The university

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of Kansas is about to play a football game, which

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we will not watch, but my sister and her boyfriend

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are coming over. Yeah. So if you're here in the

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background, Jalen Daniels, then that's the quarterback.

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Oh, quarterback. Oh, this is football. I was

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like, basketball? A quarterback? Sports are not

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my forte. But lighthouses are. And I have a history

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movie today, which is more to say than the last

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episode. Totally did it. Hold on one second.

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I'm about to turn those buttons off forever.

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I'm going to make all the right ones the intro

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and all the left ones the outro. No? Bad, no.

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What's we got? What's the buoy? It is the annual

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reports from the Lighthouse Board. Oh. So we

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talk about these a lot, and a lot of the times

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they reference the 1852 one, which was the very

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first annual report from the Lighthouse Board.

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So it started from the Treasury Department. Obviously,

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I need to be facing you directly for my voice

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to come through. You can move the microphone.

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No, because when I move it, everything changes.

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Yeah. Well, if we need a sponsor for microphones,

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headsets, audio equipment. Can you imagine if

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we just had like a little clip on one? Yeah.

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Are those okay, you think? They're okay. They're

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not as good. Because this is just, it's also

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just, yeah, our temporary setup. Anyway, annual

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reports were done from 1852 to 1935. So pretty

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significant portion of the lighthouse history

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here. The cover page of the very first one. Cool.

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And a snip of like, I don't know, it was like

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1910 or something. A snip from the middle just

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so you can see what it looks like. Group number

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three. But it started with the Treasury Department

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and from 1852 to 18... 76, so a little over 20

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years, the Secretary of the Treasury's annual

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finance report included a section on lighthouses.

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So the annual report was not its own thing. It

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was included in the Treasury's finance report.

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It just had its own little chapter. Because there's

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so much money being spent on lighthouses. Yeah.

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They're like, this is a big one. The first report,

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so the one that they published in 1852, had...

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all the laws and official instructions for lighthouse

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keepers and workers so big one that yeah this

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thing was huge it had all of the instructions

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for like what keepers would do i mean just everything

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and it also had all of the laws for the lighthouse

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board and so like all basically everything so

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that one was kind of the original um I don't

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want to make a bad analogy. It was the original

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written longest list of information for the United

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States Lighthouse. Yeah. Establishment at the

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time? Board, I think, started. And it was published

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with the treasurer's annual documents. Yes. And

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so this one is really lengthy. When I looked

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at the other years, they're about 100 pages.

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And this first report was 850 pages. So it was

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like extremely long and it had like questions

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that inspectors should ask when looking at lighthouses.

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So it had stuff for every position to do with

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lighthouses and summaries of all the existing

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lighthouses. So all the ones they had in 1852,

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they wrote like a page on each one of how it

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was built and like all kinds of stuff like that.

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Relevant letters that were sent back and forth.

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like a compilation of everything Lighthouse related

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that they had so far. The board just like put

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it in that document because it was going to be

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published. Right. Here we are a couple years

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later still referencing it. It's there forever.

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I would kill for a physical copy of that first

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1852 one. A physical copy? Like a printed modern

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copy? Yeah, like a printed modern copy. Not like

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the original. That, the original I would never

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touch. I think that's, it wouldn't be any fun.

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I don't think you'd have to kill for it. I think

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you could probably find it and buy it. I tried.

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Print it. No? No. It's, I could print it off

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of Google if I wanted to sacrifice, you know,

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400 something pages front and back. Vince is

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enjoying his coffee. It's the first time having,

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what did you say? First time having a normal

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coffee in a long time. Yeah, just black. Well,

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it's not black, but. it was black and then we

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added drip coffee in a long time usually i have

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espresso drinks yeah look out for me over here

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bocat is now on the table everything is chaos

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don't worry he's moving on welcome to the show

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welcome to the show that's how we live so each

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report so they did this every year and each report

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was a detailed summary from the chairman of the

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board of improvements being made and new lighthouses

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being built so the chairman of the lighthouse

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board would write these reports based on what

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he received from like superintendents and stuff.

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Okay. So the board's reports included the annual

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reports of the superintendents of each lighthouse

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district, which usually contained an overview

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of like the conditions of all the lighthouses

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in each district improvements they needed and

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any new lighthouses that had been formed in that

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year. And then the district also included, um,

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any supplies they needed. and that included light

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vessels, buoys, oil lamps. So, like, anytime

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a lighthouse needed anything at any new point,

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it was included in the annual report. Well, don't

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you think there was some reconciliation between,

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you know, the keepers and the assistant keepers

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would write these requests, like, we need new

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oil house, we need, you know, an upgraded lens,

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the locals are telling us this, the shipmen are

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telling us this, and then you get... to the regional

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director the regional manager what's the superintendent

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yeah thank you and then whatever makes it into

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the annual report is like oh yeah we made it

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our request was heard yeah i actually think oh

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where did i see this not everything like you're

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saying not everything made it into the annual

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report it was like the ones that they wanted

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like to push forward to get money for were the

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ones that were reported so they cut out a lot

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of extra if somebody requested to a new oil house

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or whatever but they didn't think it would get

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approved then they wouldn't post it in the annual

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report that's crazy so you can imagine that probably

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rubbed a lot of people the wrong way be like

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what we didn't make it into the report like no

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that's a shame Occasionally, the reports included

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drawings of lighthouses or light ships, and the

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1876 report included maps of each district with

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the location of every single lighthouse of the

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time. Oh, that's cool. 1876. I don't know why

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that one specifically. I think there was one

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other year that they also did that, but it was

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later on, which probably got even crazier. Think

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about early 1900s, how many lighthouses there

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were. Crazy. Yeah. I'd like to see some of those

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maps. Yeah. I'd look into it. You can find scans

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of most of the annual reports on like Google

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and there's some other website. I can't remember

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what it's called. I think I linked the 1852 one

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in our notes. They're probably on the USLHS website.

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Yeah. Yeah, I did. So if you want to see the

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big one, it's down there. 1877 through 1903,

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the treasury published a separate report, which

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had much of the same details as before. And so

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that is when we started having our own annual

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reports that were separated from the finance

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department. 1877. Yeah. Okay. Cool. What kind

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of pictures I have here? Okay. I have more screenshots.

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These are like, the other ones were scans and

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these are like photos or like, you know exact

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scans yeah very the organization of the lighthouse

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service so this one just shows like the the district

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the inspector for the district the superintendent

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and the chief clerk so like you can see in this

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year specifically the names of the people who

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worked there which i think was interesting because

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when we mention a superintendent or an inspector

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or whatever it's like in passing like we never

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give any screen time to the people who Well,

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there's so many. Yeah, exactly. And I'm sure

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it changed every year. So it's interesting to

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see the list of the real people, the people behind.

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It is. And anytime you have an organization,

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I don't think these are volunteers necessarily,

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but where people volunteer themselves for a position

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or elect to take a position of service, where

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it's probably a lot of work. Yes. Can you imagine

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going to all of the lighthouses? in a year and

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doing an inspection and then having to do it

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all over again just reading the requests from

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all the lighthouses in a year because they're

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going to appeal year over year as we've learned

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for these needs that they have and then you have

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to determine based on well they've appealed 18

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times now uh this year maybe we do have the money

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for this yeah maybe i will put this in the annual

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report and even then the annual report is just

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a bid to congress to give people money so it's

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like you have to decide what's going to get a

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chance to go in front of Congress and not like

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pick the ones that actually will get money. So

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shut down the government. Yeah. And another screenshot

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I have up here shows the efficiency pendants

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that were given out. I can't remember what year

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this was. I feel like it was later, like 1910s

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sometime. Okay. But we, Oh, 19, 1913. Woo. Data

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located. Uh, they, have the efficiency pendants

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on here and i remember when we covered uniforms

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housekeeper uniforms and i mentioned that you

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could get an efficiency pendant and only like

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i think very few i mean well here let's look

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right here there's one per district would get

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an efficiency pendant and so it was like a really

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cool thing to have so anyway i just thought it

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was cool that they had the efficiency pendants

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listed out in this thing too. So there's basically

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everything you can think of. Lighthouse related

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shows up in the annual reports, which is really

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cool and makes sense. The efficiency, where else

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would you see? Like if you got an efficiency,

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you know, I think we need to bring back some

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of that. I think our government needs some efficiency

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pendants to be hung out and it can only be one

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per year. Please help them. Well, like I remember

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I went to, uh, I've never been. Military whatsoever.

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But I went to a basketball camp once at the Air

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Force Academy in Colorado Springs, which is a

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military academy. They graduate as officers,

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but they study engineering and technology and

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aerospace. It's a really difficult college to

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be selected for. And then you go into a minimum

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of like four years of service after you graduate.

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So everyone there is a student. They're called

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cadets. And they came through our rooms with

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the white glove inspection. So while we were

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staying there as just regular middle and high

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school basketball players, they would inspect

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our rooms. And they were pretty easy on us. But

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the point was that when they are cadets, they

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have these white glove inspections from the upperclassmen

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and from the staff. And it's like if there's

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any dust on any surface, you turn the whole room

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over, you clean the whole room. I heard the Navy

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SEALs do a similar process, probably the whole

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Navy, probably all of the military has these

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standards for cleanliness and orderly of like

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their own space. And I think that probably plays

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into how they behave. Interesting. I don't know.

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So the point is to go back to an efficiency award

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for lighthouse keeping. It's so interesting to

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me because it was housed as a military, as a

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government institution. Some of those same aspects

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are showing up here where it's like, it actually

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is important that you keep things orderly. Your

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own house, maybe not so much, but like you're

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in charge of this structure and keeping it clean

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is like one of the biggest parts of being a lighthouse

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keeper. Painting and cleaning and moving and

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fixing. And the lens, no soot. And this was during

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a time when everything was flame. So you just

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had ash on it. Like you had to be really vigilant.

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Crazy. Good for them. I know. 1904, the Department

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of Commerce and Labor took over the reports before

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the Lighthouse Board was ended in 1910. And after

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this, it was called the Annual Report of the

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Commissioner of Lighthouses to the Secretary

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of Commerce. So they changed the name. So if

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you look up the Annual Reports of the Lighthouse

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Board, it ends in 1910. But there are still annual

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reports until 1935. And it's because it technically...

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is no longer for the lighthouse board so it changed

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names if you look it up by title so they reframed

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it to go to commerce which kind of does make

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sense but especially later on yeah so we saw

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a lot less detail in these reports they kind

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of cut out all the extras stuff basically just

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did appropriations for improvements and any changes

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they made so it would say this lighthouse confirmed

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got five thousand dollars for congress for bubble

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law so yeah cut out off cut off a lot of the

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fat that's too bad we probably lost a lot of

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documentation because of that process i know

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i'm sure it was still made but not reported in

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the same way so yeah i think so too so that was

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until 1935 and that was the end of annual reports

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so um i guess because all the lighthouses ended

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up under the coast guard in 1939 they probably

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have their own system for what they did and we

00:15:03.409 --> 00:15:06.169
talked about like light lists and things so i

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don't know not sure what exactly happened after

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that if it was a structured change to something

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similar or if it's they just lost the whole annual

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report and started doing separate stuff and to

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be clear that the coast guard took over all of

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the honestly commonwealth but all the government

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owned lighthouses all the Not private aids for

00:15:30.789 --> 00:15:33.049
navigation. Yeah, and private I don't think was

00:15:33.049 --> 00:15:37.509
very common anyway. But like an official aid

00:15:37.509 --> 00:15:39.470
of navigation. Yeah. Something funded by the

00:15:39.470 --> 00:15:47.350
government. All the ATONs. Yes. What was aid

00:15:47.350 --> 00:15:50.330
to navigation? ATON. And some of, yes, ATON.

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Aid to navigation? Yeah, A2N, ATON. Oh. Well.

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So many lighthouses that were not included. The

00:16:02.110 --> 00:16:04.490
records, you can clearly see a difference when

00:16:04.490 --> 00:16:06.710
we look at the history of any lighthouse, of

00:16:06.710 --> 00:16:09.769
what you can find. And one of the great reasons

00:16:09.769 --> 00:16:11.809
that we like to do United States lighthouses,

00:16:11.909 --> 00:16:14.909
because we're here, but also because they have

00:16:14.909 --> 00:16:16.669
records like these. Really great documentation.

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Really good. And then private aids are harder

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to find any information. And then foreign, not

00:16:23.210 --> 00:16:25.169
to the United States. That's really difficult.

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Now we're stretching. But one of my upcoming

00:16:27.750 --> 00:16:30.690
lighthouses is going to be outside of the U .S.

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And I'm pretty excited about it. We had a friend

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go there and send us a picture. So that's all

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I'm going to say. I have some sources also. Oh,

00:16:40.509 --> 00:16:44.409
yeah? Yeah. I bet mine are better. We'll see.

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Okay, moving on to our lighthouse. And I want

00:16:48.690 --> 00:16:50.669
to apologize because this is on Lake Michigan

00:16:50.669 --> 00:16:55.820
again. Hey. There's so many. So then if I'm like,

00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:58.460
oh, this one's cool, it just happens to be on

00:16:58.460 --> 00:17:00.700
Lake Michigan. More likely than not, it's either

00:17:00.700 --> 00:17:05.880
in Michigan or it's in Maine. There's a lot of

00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:07.160
lighthouses in Michigan. Anything else is like,

00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:10.039
oh, nice. So anyway, going back to Lake Michigan.

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1852, and this is how I got our history buoy.

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The superintendent of lights on the Great Lakes

00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:18.359
recommended the construction of three new lighthouses,

00:17:18.579 --> 00:17:21.519
two on Lake Superior and one on Point Betsy.

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To mark the entrance of the Manitou Passage from

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the south. So I pulled up. Map. My map. And so

00:17:30.180 --> 00:17:32.599
you can see Point Betsy Lighthouse down here.

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That little outcropping into the lake is Point

00:17:36.819 --> 00:17:40.220
Betsy. I did a little zoom up over here so you

00:17:40.220 --> 00:17:42.519
can see that it's. I like that. It's beachy.

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Like large. I mean. Not compared to the outlet.

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There's a body of water on one side, a body of

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water on the other side. So it's like this little

00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:54.420
passageway. It's an isthmus. Yeah. And then where

00:17:54.420 --> 00:18:00.259
these two islands are, just north of the point,

00:18:00.299 --> 00:18:04.180
between that and the mainland is Manitou Passage.

00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:06.099
Okay. So I think there was a lot of activity

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going through there. They wanted to mark it.

00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:11.980
Makes sense. Okay. So this lighthouse of our

00:18:11.980 --> 00:18:17.339
day is Point Betsy. Point Betsy. Okay. Am I thinking

00:18:17.339 --> 00:18:19.180
of another one we've covered that was another

00:18:19.180 --> 00:18:23.279
patty? Yeah, I keep almost saying it. Now I can't

00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:27.960
remember. Point. Oh, no. There was some. I was

00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:30.299
looking at the restaurants nearby. Yeah. But

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Point Betsy. Okay. Point Betsy. Yeah. 1853. Oh,

00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:36.160
and also I wanted to point out on this map that

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there is a golf course. Oh, boy. Where is this?

00:18:41.940 --> 00:18:45.099
Michigan, you said? It's right there. Yeah. Let's

00:18:45.099 --> 00:18:49.119
look at it for our honeymoon. Oh, excuse me.

00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:54.380
No. Yes. Because I told Vince that maybe we should

00:18:54.380 --> 00:18:57.960
just for our honeymoon, just go ahead and go

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to Maine and just like look at all over Maine.

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And he said, no. So interesting that you would

00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:05.660
say that Michigan is a different story. Separate

00:19:05.660 --> 00:19:07.940
point. If you think that our honeymoon should

00:19:07.940 --> 00:19:10.359
be a golfing and lighthouse trip, go ahead and

00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:15.589
like this video. No, not golf. Thank you. Our

00:19:15.589 --> 00:19:17.130
honeymoon's not even going to be a lighthouse

00:19:17.130 --> 00:19:19.069
trip, so I don't even want to hear anything about

00:19:19.069 --> 00:19:21.369
golf. I'll golf with you once. A glimpse into

00:19:21.369 --> 00:19:24.269
our life. Last week at my bachelor party, it

00:19:24.269 --> 00:19:27.289
was fantastic. We took a trip to Colorado. We

00:19:27.289 --> 00:19:29.950
played two excellent golf courses, had a great

00:19:29.950 --> 00:19:33.970
time. Bear Dance, the golf club at Bear Dance,

00:19:34.210 --> 00:19:38.269
and Fossil Trace near Golden. It was expensive.

00:19:38.349 --> 00:19:41.450
It was really fun, though. And on our two lighthouse

00:19:41.450 --> 00:19:45.230
trips so far, The first to North Carolina to

00:19:45.230 --> 00:19:48.630
the Outer Banks. I got to play at Nags Head Golf

00:19:48.630 --> 00:19:51.450
Links. Lost nine balls and nine holes. It was

00:19:51.450 --> 00:19:54.130
awesome. It was very challenging. We were not

00:19:54.130 --> 00:19:57.670
ready. And then Cape Cod. Got to play Highland

00:19:57.670 --> 00:19:59.569
Links. The oldest links course in the United

00:19:59.569 --> 00:20:03.529
States. Has a lighthouse on it. So you were just

00:20:03.529 --> 00:20:07.529
wanting to keep that tradition going. Yeah, I'll

00:20:07.529 --> 00:20:11.329
golf with you once. Just putting it out there.

00:20:11.529 --> 00:20:13.779
Yeah, if we're going to stick to tradition. I

00:20:13.779 --> 00:20:16.779
golf once, and that's it. So you've got to choose

00:20:16.779 --> 00:20:19.259
wisely. She's a chipper and putter. I'm a chipper

00:20:19.259 --> 00:20:22.160
and putter, and I've resigned to that fact that

00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:24.579
I'll never play a full game of golf. It's just

00:20:24.579 --> 00:20:27.160
going to be, like, occasionally, it's really

00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:29.220
the middle part I skip. You just need lessons.

00:20:30.019 --> 00:20:31.740
I've tried that already. No, you need lessons.

00:20:32.019 --> 00:20:34.779
I need more lessons? Yes. Lessons and practice.

00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:39.440
I got worse with the lessons, so. I can't imagine.

00:20:39.559 --> 00:20:42.059
All the golfers listening know that you just

00:20:42.059 --> 00:20:46.000
need new golf clubs. No. That solves all the

00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:50.440
problems. Incorrect. And moving on. Thank you

00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:51.720
for pointing out the golf course. You're welcome.

00:20:51.980 --> 00:20:55.319
Near Point Betsy. Bonita. I think that's what

00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:57.660
I keep almost saying. Bonita. Out in San Francisco.

00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:01.440
Your lighthouse that you covered. Good episode.

00:21:01.880 --> 00:21:05.660
Okay, 1853, Congress appropriated $5 ,000. And

00:21:05.660 --> 00:21:08.440
while a contract was awarded the year after that,

00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:11.839
the lighthouse wasn't completed until 1858. And

00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:15.799
this was because the construction company that

00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:20.319
bid the cheapest for this lighthouse was selected.

00:21:20.740 --> 00:21:23.000
Also was given the responsibility of building

00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:26.279
North Point, Grand River, La Pointe, Rock Harbor,

00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:29.519
Portage River, Grand Island, Point Iroquois.

00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:33.680
Eagle River, Round Island, and Menasha all around

00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.000
the same time. They were booked. They were booked

00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:41.599
solid. They had done a bulk offering. Yeah, I'm

00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:44.420
not sure exactly what happened there. I'm sure

00:21:44.420 --> 00:21:46.980
they just were like, just send the low bid to

00:21:46.980 --> 00:21:49.400
everything. No, I mean, if you can offer as a

00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:51.920
package, you can say, well, we can do it for

00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:54.160
less if you give us so much because they're a

00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:56.500
smaller percentage. Like wholesale. Yeah, like

00:21:56.500 --> 00:21:59.779
wholesale of building of lighthouses. This is

00:21:59.779 --> 00:22:04.960
a Costco lighthouse. So that's kind of why it

00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:08.279
took an extra four years to build this lighthouse.

00:22:08.380 --> 00:22:12.140
And also, naturally, because of the area, a lot

00:22:12.140 --> 00:22:15.240
of the lighthouses were in remote places. Like

00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:17.460
this one, at the time, was just in the middle

00:22:17.460 --> 00:22:21.319
of absolutely nowhere. So that meant a long lead

00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:26.119
time on construction of our lighthouses. 1850s?

00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:29.619
Yeah. 1858 she was completed. Point Betsy was

00:22:29.619 --> 00:22:33.500
a circular 37 -foot yellow brick tower connected

00:22:33.500 --> 00:22:37.640
by a strange passageway. I mean, it's... Let's

00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:40.980
see. Oh, there's a photo. It's almost two stories.

00:22:41.059 --> 00:22:44.160
The passageway is almost two stories tall. So

00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:46.819
we got... Let's take a moment because this photo

00:22:46.819 --> 00:22:50.259
is really cool. First off... Wait. The passageway

00:22:50.259 --> 00:22:52.700
connects to a two -story dwelling. That was the

00:22:52.700 --> 00:22:54.220
last of my bullet points. Oh, sorry to interrupt

00:22:54.220 --> 00:22:57.559
you. Go ahead. Well, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I'm

00:22:57.559 --> 00:23:02.160
sorry. Oh, no. All right. We have an image of

00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:05.660
black and white image of Point Betsy Light, Frankfurt,

00:23:05.859 --> 00:23:08.519
Michigan. So this is. Yes. So that's written

00:23:08.519 --> 00:23:11.099
by hand, which I always love. I do, too. And

00:23:11.099 --> 00:23:13.579
because of the contrast, it's written in what

00:23:13.579 --> 00:23:15.880
looks like pine trees. Yeah. To the left of the

00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:19.319
lighthouse footprint. So cool. Three gentlemen,

00:23:19.420 --> 00:23:23.140
it appears, standing in front. Kind of a barn

00:23:23.140 --> 00:23:26.569
shaped. housing unit it is and you'll see it

00:23:26.569 --> 00:23:30.230
later they they really enunciate the barnness

00:23:30.230 --> 00:23:32.710
later it almost looks like the lighthouse is

00:23:32.710 --> 00:23:36.910
a silo oh that's cool next to the barn structure

00:23:36.910 --> 00:23:39.289
you're right it's like a barn with a silo connected

00:23:39.289 --> 00:23:41.130
someone's gonna be offended by that they're gonna

00:23:41.130 --> 00:23:44.410
be like no no that's not it it's not it you're

00:23:44.410 --> 00:23:47.690
missing the point it's nice okay accept it but

00:23:47.690 --> 00:23:51.470
the it looks nice the connecting enclosure is

00:23:51.470 --> 00:23:53.720
definitely on the second floor Yes. And then

00:23:53.720 --> 00:23:56.940
there's an opening down below. Yeah, like a door

00:23:56.940 --> 00:24:00.119
you can walk in straight into the passageway

00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:02.140
instead of going through the house. This house

00:24:02.140 --> 00:24:05.680
isn't still there, is it? Because that would

00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:11.240
be a great Zillow find. Have this lighthouse

00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:13.599
built into your house. It's so integral that

00:24:13.599 --> 00:24:15.619
it's... I feel like, yes. I feel like it's still

00:24:15.619 --> 00:24:18.480
there. Well, you said light yellow also? Yeah.

00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:21.829
Interesting. Very cool. The picture that I've

00:24:21.829 --> 00:24:24.210
pulled up, I believe it's been painted, but I'm

00:24:24.210 --> 00:24:27.329
not 100 % sure. It looks like plain white to

00:24:27.329 --> 00:24:29.490
me because you don't see any brick. I'm pretty

00:24:29.490 --> 00:24:32.450
sure I saw a picture of it with obvious brick,

00:24:32.690 --> 00:24:36.750
but I don't know. I don't have it. Well, in this

00:24:36.750 --> 00:24:38.690
photo, and like we say a lot of times, beautiful

00:24:38.690 --> 00:24:40.930
construction. They did a great job. Really good

00:24:40.930 --> 00:24:43.349
job. Aesthetically. For the low bid, yeah. For

00:24:43.349 --> 00:24:48.920
the low bid. They did some aesthetic. when normally

00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:51.059
the low bid does not. Yeah, low bid was better

00:24:51.059 --> 00:24:54.079
back then. Yeah. So they have five rows of brick

00:24:54.079 --> 00:24:57.359
directly underneath the decagonal, which we've

00:24:57.359 --> 00:25:01.059
talked about before, remember? Ten sides. We've

00:25:01.059 --> 00:25:05.180
learned exactly ten sides. Decagonal lantern

00:25:05.180 --> 00:25:08.740
room, which these rows of brick gradually increase

00:25:08.740 --> 00:25:11.720
in diameter to support the gallery. So you can

00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:14.019
just see it's like... You know, we talked recently

00:25:14.019 --> 00:25:15.740
about, I can't remember which one, the lighthouse

00:25:15.740 --> 00:25:19.440
that tapers out like quickly. But this one is

00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:23.279
like a stepped taper. Yeah. Cool. It is nice.

00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:26.380
Wow. You're gesturing so much with my hands,

00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:28.759
I keep touching my microphone. Boom, boom, boom.

00:25:29.720 --> 00:25:32.240
They got a fourth order Fresnel lens that produced

00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:35.480
a fixed white light 53 feet above the lake. So

00:25:35.480 --> 00:25:39.380
it's like on sand dunes, which we will find is

00:25:39.380 --> 00:25:41.980
problematic as per usual. I wonder when they...

00:25:42.440 --> 00:25:44.299
We're like, okay, we can't build on sand dunes

00:25:44.299 --> 00:25:48.140
anymore. Or we need to put down some serious

00:25:48.140 --> 00:25:50.839
foundational support if we're going to do that.

00:25:51.460 --> 00:25:54.259
I don't know. Because only a year into its service,

00:25:54.299 --> 00:25:57.720
the lake began to encroach on the light due to

00:25:57.720 --> 00:26:00.539
it being a beachy area. And we'll see lots of

00:26:00.539 --> 00:26:03.799
attempts in its history to stop the erosion throughout

00:26:03.799 --> 00:26:06.900
its lifetime. It comes up every once in a while.

00:26:07.579 --> 00:26:11.200
Too bad. We know that if we ever bought or built

00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:14.259
a beach house, it would be like the Bonser Beach

00:26:14.259 --> 00:26:17.920
House, which is one street removed from the front.

00:26:17.980 --> 00:26:21.400
Did you notice that? No. They describe it in

00:26:21.400 --> 00:26:23.900
their offering as like a semi -beach house or

00:26:23.900 --> 00:26:25.160
semi -ocean front. Oh, because you have to walk

00:26:25.160 --> 00:26:27.319
through. Yeah. But if you look at, and they have,

00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:29.819
of course, drone views and everything. Across

00:26:29.819 --> 00:26:34.779
the street is the beach. Yeah. So as we learned,

00:26:34.900 --> 00:26:37.609
this is at the Outer Banks. Yeah. You know, the

00:26:37.609 --> 00:26:40.089
erosion is going to keep moving things. And so.

00:26:40.230 --> 00:26:42.769
They're in a good spot. We saw some houses on

00:26:42.769 --> 00:26:45.029
stilts that were like in the water. Yeah. And

00:26:45.029 --> 00:26:49.650
those are gone now. Oh. Yeah. I follow Cape Hatteras

00:26:49.650 --> 00:26:52.450
National Seashore. Damn. And they often, often

00:26:52.450 --> 00:26:55.210
are posting like, don't use the beach today.

00:26:55.289 --> 00:26:57.630
There's wood everywhere. Another house went down.

00:26:57.670 --> 00:27:02.150
Like it's. Remember that middle area? Yeah. I

00:27:02.150 --> 00:27:04.569
can't remember what it was called, but almost

00:27:04.569 --> 00:27:07.230
all of those that we saw are gone. It was near

00:27:07.230 --> 00:27:09.009
where we stopped for burgers on the way down

00:27:09.009 --> 00:27:12.130
there. Yeah. Anyways, the point is, if you buy

00:27:12.130 --> 00:27:14.390
a beach house, according to us here in Kansas,

00:27:14.589 --> 00:27:16.769
you should build it not so close to the sand.

00:27:16.950 --> 00:27:19.549
Yeah, just letting you know. So keep that in

00:27:19.549 --> 00:27:22.210
mind, building your beach houses. You tell your

00:27:22.210 --> 00:27:24.529
construction crew that they can't build too close.

00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:27.279
I wonder what proportion. It's probably not an

00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:29.599
insignificant proportion of our listeners are

00:27:29.599 --> 00:27:32.839
beach house people. Yeah, or beach people. Or

00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:35.059
people that will be beach house people. Actually,

00:27:35.079 --> 00:27:38.640
you can see that on our website. Not our listeners,

00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:41.440
but you and I can see on our. Oh, where they're

00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:44.400
from. Where the people are listening from. And

00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:48.059
there's a high concentration around like the

00:27:48.059 --> 00:27:51.180
northeast. Let's go. And on the Great Lakes.

00:27:51.740 --> 00:27:54.420
Nice. Hell yeah. That's great. Thanks, y 'all.

00:27:54.500 --> 00:27:58.980
Also. Australia has a strangely high number of

00:27:58.980 --> 00:28:01.720
listeners, which I don't think we've covered

00:28:01.720 --> 00:28:05.480
in an Australian lighthouse. Not in my memory.

00:28:05.759 --> 00:28:10.160
Not yet. Not yet. We haven't. Gold Coast. I bet

00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:12.660
you there's some lighthouses. Gold Coast? I think

00:28:12.660 --> 00:28:13.880
that's what it's called. I don't know anything.

00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:17.180
Yeah. I'm going to not look it up and just go

00:28:17.180 --> 00:28:19.420
with it. Pretty sure there's a Gold Coast. You

00:28:19.420 --> 00:28:21.119
tentatively reach for your phone like, I can

00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:23.089
answer this. I'm going to take a gamble. Gold

00:28:23.089 --> 00:28:25.470
Coast is where a lot of the establishments are

00:28:25.470 --> 00:28:28.009
in Australia. Oh, now he's looking. Like a lot

00:28:28.009 --> 00:28:29.109
of the larger structures. So you're just making

00:28:29.109 --> 00:28:31.210
a statement and then fact checking. Yes. Okay.

00:28:31.450 --> 00:28:34.170
Gold Coast. Let's see what the internet says.

00:28:34.349 --> 00:28:36.869
Okay. Gold Coast is a city in Australia. I'm

00:28:36.869 --> 00:28:39.589
an idiot. Okay. It's a major coastal city, a

00:28:39.589 --> 00:28:41.509
tourist destination in Queensland, Australia.

00:28:42.509 --> 00:28:46.269
Located south of Brisbane. Known for its beaches,

00:28:46.390 --> 00:28:49.089
theme parks, surfing spots, and lush hinterland.

00:28:49.369 --> 00:28:53.039
Which is a fun word. But I bet you there's lighthouses

00:28:53.039 --> 00:28:54.240
there because there's a beach there. There's

00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:56.460
got to be. Anyways. Where there's a beach, there's

00:28:56.460 --> 00:28:59.819
a lighthouse. Australians, we hear you. Yes,

00:28:59.839 --> 00:29:01.880
thank you for listening. And eventually we'll

00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:05.839
get around to your country. But it's hard. U

00:29:05.839 --> 00:29:09.519
.S. focused. Moving on. First, three keepers

00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:12.700
stayed less than a year. It was pretty secluded,

00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:15.220
so I understand why this happened. A lot of lighthouses.

00:29:16.250 --> 00:29:19.569
But the fourth keeper, Alonzo Slyfield, served

00:29:19.569 --> 00:29:23.130
here for over 20 years. So he stuck around for

00:29:23.130 --> 00:29:26.430
a long time. Cool. He was also a doctor and a

00:29:26.430 --> 00:29:29.690
coroner as well as a lighthouse keeper. Which

00:29:29.690 --> 00:29:33.029
meant that he was often called away from the

00:29:33.029 --> 00:29:35.569
lighthouse for other duties, which I have never

00:29:35.569 --> 00:29:37.970
heard of, that you can have more than one job

00:29:37.970 --> 00:29:40.509
along with your lighthouse keeping duties. But

00:29:40.509 --> 00:29:43.809
remember, doctors back in the day were like...

00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:46.500
Few and far in between. Well, but yeah. Or not

00:29:46.500 --> 00:29:50.059
practiced. And so powerful. And so rare. Trying

00:29:50.059 --> 00:29:51.940
to figure out what you were going to say. No,

00:29:51.940 --> 00:29:53.019
they're like, you know, they had a little leather

00:29:53.019 --> 00:29:56.140
bag. Yeah, yeah. Doctors were super well thought

00:29:56.140 --> 00:29:59.839
of. And very mobile. It wasn't like, I mean.

00:29:59.980 --> 00:30:01.460
They weren't hospitals in the same way. Yeah.

00:30:01.779 --> 00:30:03.819
Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. And, you know,

00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:05.940
if he's the coroner too, you think like, you

00:30:05.940 --> 00:30:07.740
know, his patient dies, he just turns around,

00:30:07.900 --> 00:30:11.559
puts on a different hat. Switches briefcases.

00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:17.309
I know what happened here. In 1876, a life -saving

00:30:17.309 --> 00:30:19.970
station was built just south of the lighthouse.

00:30:20.250 --> 00:30:25.190
And Slyfield felt that it was easier for him

00:30:25.190 --> 00:30:27.470
to leave the lighthouse because of this, because

00:30:27.470 --> 00:30:31.829
he was no longer having to be the only person

00:30:31.829 --> 00:30:36.289
who would save people in shipwrecks or people

00:30:36.289 --> 00:30:39.910
in boats and stuff. So he often left the lighthouse

00:30:39.910 --> 00:30:43.809
in his son's hands. And Thomas Matthews, who

00:30:43.809 --> 00:30:46.309
was keeper of the life -saving station that was

00:30:46.309 --> 00:30:50.069
built, wrote in his log in 1880, quote, duty

00:30:50.069 --> 00:30:52.730
compels me to note on this journal this very

00:30:52.730 --> 00:30:56.529
bad way Point Betsy light has been kept this

00:30:56.529 --> 00:30:59.490
spring. I do not wish to do A .J. Slyfield any

00:30:59.490 --> 00:31:01.890
injury, but the light has been neglected so much

00:31:01.890 --> 00:31:04.309
and my crew so often passing remarks upon the

00:31:04.309 --> 00:31:07.150
light that I am obliged to make note of it. Oh,

00:31:07.170 --> 00:31:09.970
my gosh. Oh, boy. This morning, the patrol see

00:31:09.970 --> 00:31:12.190
that the light did not revolve and was burning

00:31:12.190 --> 00:31:15.529
very dim. Time, 3 .30 a .m. Watched it until

00:31:15.529 --> 00:31:18.630
near 5 o 'clock and the weather being hazy and

00:31:18.630 --> 00:31:21.829
many vessels and steamers passing. Surfman went

00:31:21.829 --> 00:31:24.730
to the lighthouse, woke up some boys who were

00:31:24.730 --> 00:31:26.849
sleeping there who got up and fixed and put the

00:31:26.849 --> 00:31:29.269
light in running order. The keeper is in the

00:31:29.269 --> 00:31:31.410
habit of leaving boys at the light in charge.

00:31:31.609 --> 00:31:35.950
End quote. So he just blasted this guy. And shortly

00:31:35.950 --> 00:31:39.230
following this, like... A few months. Edwin Fitzgerald.

00:31:39.490 --> 00:31:44.029
Huh? What? Alonzo wrote a letter to the board

00:31:44.029 --> 00:31:47.910
to retire and requested his son, Edwin, replace

00:31:47.910 --> 00:31:50.390
him, which was like, at this time, it was very

00:31:50.390 --> 00:31:54.069
unorthodox to be like, hey, I'm retiring, and

00:31:54.069 --> 00:31:56.069
also here's who I want to be the next keeper.

00:31:56.170 --> 00:31:58.769
It's like, you're not in a position to suggest

00:31:58.769 --> 00:32:00.450
who's going to be the next keeper. It's usually,

00:32:00.509 --> 00:32:03.950
obviously, there's a selection process that goes

00:32:03.950 --> 00:32:08.029
on, but they accepted it. even though this was

00:32:08.029 --> 00:32:10.690
one of the boys that allegedly was neglecting

00:32:10.690 --> 00:32:12.869
the light. Boys to men. Yeah, and I didn't see

00:32:12.869 --> 00:32:15.029
any reports about Edwin being a bad lighthouse

00:32:15.029 --> 00:32:17.609
keeper. So, I mean, it's not the kid's fault.

00:32:17.690 --> 00:32:20.049
I thought his name was Alonzo. Alonzo was the

00:32:20.049 --> 00:32:22.789
dad who retired. Yeah, Edwin was the next guy.

00:32:23.289 --> 00:32:26.269
Cool. Good names. Oh, I forgot to look this up.

00:32:26.710 --> 00:32:29.589
1873, a concrete apron was poured around the

00:32:29.589 --> 00:32:33.029
lighthouse to protect it. As a construction guy,

00:32:33.069 --> 00:32:35.960
do you know what an apron is? Well. I mean, I

00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:39.660
know what I can assume what an apron. I mean,

00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:42.259
either like I want to use the word skirting because

00:32:42.259 --> 00:32:45.559
that's similar to apron, but either like a small

00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:48.559
pad that's adjacent to the actual base of the

00:32:48.559 --> 00:32:50.380
tower. That's what I would guess. Or it could

00:32:50.380 --> 00:32:52.940
be a small retaining wall, you know, a vertical

00:32:52.940 --> 00:32:58.039
concrete. I'm seeing that it's basically just

00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:02.380
a short concrete pad around a structure. So like.

00:33:03.039 --> 00:33:06.880
Just a couple of feet at most. Kind of add to

00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:10.140
the footings. Yeah, just extend it out a little

00:33:10.140 --> 00:33:13.759
bit, probably. I wonder, I don't know, this is

00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:16.220
maybe dumb to say, but I don't know the history

00:33:16.220 --> 00:33:21.460
of when rebar was introduced. Because rebar between

00:33:21.460 --> 00:33:24.400
existing and new concrete, you can help to transfer

00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:26.660
some of the load, but you have to drill into

00:33:26.660 --> 00:33:28.940
the existing concrete and insert that rebar.

00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:32.359
Where do we see that? I feel like we talked about

00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:35.599
that a long time ago. Rebar? About like drilling

00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:38.140
into the existing. Oh, you know what it was?

00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:40.380
It was the one that kept having a bunch of additions.

00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:43.740
It was our house rental, Jarbo. That's what I

00:33:43.740 --> 00:33:46.579
was thinking of. For the, yeah, we had a set

00:33:46.579 --> 00:33:50.539
of stairs. We had this sheisty little house.

00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:54.630
And anyways. It wasn't so bad now in hindsight,

00:33:54.710 --> 00:33:59.710
but the stairs began to sink into the earth and

00:33:59.710 --> 00:34:01.890
they were separate. Pulled away from the house

00:34:01.890 --> 00:34:04.630
and everything. And at the time it was, we had

00:34:04.630 --> 00:34:08.030
the ice storm of the decade and Emily was on

00:34:08.030 --> 00:34:10.469
her little scooter and it was the only, only

00:34:10.469 --> 00:34:12.849
real entrance and exit to the house. Yeah. So

00:34:12.849 --> 00:34:17.949
I was fighting our, fighting. Landlord. I was

00:34:17.949 --> 00:34:20.659
writing letters. To the landlord asking for them

00:34:20.659 --> 00:34:25.079
to address this. This is very serious. It took

00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:27.280
a long time. I mean, it was very expensive. Yes,

00:34:27.460 --> 00:34:30.480
and we talked about rebar and concrete. That's

00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:31.980
what I was thinking of. I was like, what lighthouse

00:34:31.980 --> 00:34:34.380
should we talk about? Well, it was just a house,

00:34:34.380 --> 00:34:39.860
not a lighthouse. That's so funny. Anyway, 1880,

00:34:39.940 --> 00:34:42.300
the annual report of the Lighthouse Board wrote,

00:34:42.460 --> 00:34:44.679
quote, this is one of the most important lights

00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:46.900
on Lake Michigan, which they say about all of

00:34:46.900 --> 00:34:50.239
them, so I'm like. Relax. The present light has

00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:52.760
never given satisfaction. The tower was built

00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:56.039
by contract in 1858 and the work was miserably

00:34:56.039 --> 00:35:01.199
done. Lopid hits once again. Slaps. Dang, we're

00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:03.400
looking at it like, yeah, this looks good. Wait,

00:35:03.420 --> 00:35:06.099
I'm not finished yet. Oh, oh, oh. A new tower

00:35:06.099 --> 00:35:08.219
with sufficient height to put the focal plane

00:35:08.219 --> 00:35:11.340
100 feet above the lake should be built and the

00:35:11.340 --> 00:35:13.340
fourth order lens should be replaced by a third

00:35:13.340 --> 00:35:16.780
order. An appropriation of $40 ,000 is recommended

00:35:16.780 --> 00:35:20.559
for this work. End quote. They're really sprucing

00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:22.539
it up. They're really wanting some sprucing.

00:35:22.659 --> 00:35:26.699
That's a lot of ask. That's twice the focal plane

00:35:26.699 --> 00:35:28.800
it has right now. So, like, the lighthouse itself

00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:31.980
is 37 feet. And the focal plane, I think, was

00:35:31.980 --> 00:35:34.960
54. So, like, you're more than doubling the height

00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:38.519
of the lighthouse and asking for a million -dollar

00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:43.340
Fresnel lens. From France. Right? They all came

00:35:43.340 --> 00:35:46.320
from France at the time, which is no small order,

00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:53.460
as they say. An order. It's a third order. That's

00:35:53.460 --> 00:35:56.219
actually a good one. No small order. Anyways,

00:35:56.579 --> 00:36:00.840
that's really interesting. Also, we kind of,

00:36:00.900 --> 00:36:03.340
at this time in history, don't they know that

00:36:03.340 --> 00:36:06.019
a higher focal plane is actually not the answer?

00:36:06.019 --> 00:36:09.639
Well, it can not be the answer, but like. In

00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:11.460
this case, I think it probably would have been

00:36:11.460 --> 00:36:14.239
the answer. I guess it depends on weather, right?

00:36:14.420 --> 00:36:17.420
Because I think of Triangle Island most often

00:36:17.420 --> 00:36:19.300
because it was one of my early ones. 100 feet

00:36:19.300 --> 00:36:22.420
is not that high. We're talking yours was, what,

00:36:22.500 --> 00:36:25.019
300 feet or something? Because it was an island,

00:36:25.099 --> 00:36:29.179
yeah. But what is the Cape Hatteras, for example?

00:36:29.239 --> 00:36:32.099
It's a tall one. 200? 217, I think. Somewhere

00:36:32.099 --> 00:36:34.960
around there. I was going to guess 220. 200,

00:36:35.900 --> 00:36:40.230
220. Anyways, somewhere in there. So like, I

00:36:40.230 --> 00:36:43.309
don't know. So they proposed a 100 -foot focal

00:36:43.309 --> 00:36:47.690
plane, a third -order lens near the existing

00:36:47.690 --> 00:36:50.090
location? Like replacing this lighthouse, yeah.

00:36:51.110 --> 00:36:53.769
So I don't know if they would have redone the

00:36:53.769 --> 00:36:56.769
lighthouse or demoed or put it in a new location.

00:36:57.449 --> 00:36:58.969
Personally, I would have gone with new location

00:36:58.969 --> 00:37:01.650
if erosion is causing a problem. But you don't

00:37:01.650 --> 00:37:03.670
want to change things too much for mariners,

00:37:03.670 --> 00:37:06.730
especially when it's marking. Like a well -used

00:37:06.730 --> 00:37:09.409
passageway. Yeah. But they actually repeated

00:37:09.409 --> 00:37:13.949
this request for nine years without being appropriated

00:37:13.949 --> 00:37:16.969
in anything. And so they decided what they really

00:37:16.969 --> 00:37:20.690
needed was a faster light flash and a fog signal.

00:37:21.070 --> 00:37:23.449
I'm like, if you tried to get a taller lighthouse

00:37:23.449 --> 00:37:26.769
before you put in a fog signal, put in a fog

00:37:26.769 --> 00:37:29.329
signal. That's interesting. Yeah. Also, like,

00:37:29.369 --> 00:37:34.920
let's just make it as true. Like that's going

00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:36.940
to make it safer out here. Yeah. But I think,

00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:39.480
so I don't know exactly. There's some confusion

00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:42.599
about what's happening here because like I said,

00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:45.719
it started with a solid white light, a fixed

00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:48.019
white light. Yes. And now it's saying they need

00:37:48.019 --> 00:37:51.380
a faster flash pattern. So it's saying. Any flash

00:37:51.380 --> 00:37:53.940
pattern would be faster. Yeah, right. It said

00:37:53.940 --> 00:37:59.300
they went from a 90 second gap between flashes.

00:38:00.030 --> 00:38:04.210
and changed it to a 10 -second flash. So at some

00:38:04.210 --> 00:38:07.070
point, they changed it from fixed flashing, very,

00:38:07.170 --> 00:38:09.429
very slow flash. So I understand wanting to change

00:38:09.429 --> 00:38:10.750
that, but I don't think it would have taken me

00:38:10.750 --> 00:38:13.110
nine years to change my mind. Yeah, 90 seconds

00:38:13.110 --> 00:38:15.730
is like, eh, no one needs this. You're going

00:38:15.730 --> 00:38:18.869
to be passed by the time it flashes again. Well,

00:38:18.889 --> 00:38:22.059
and like... So to make this change, let's for

00:38:22.059 --> 00:38:24.199
those who may not know, they're going to change.

00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:26.079
I forget what it's called, but it's the component

00:38:26.079 --> 00:38:28.320
that's actually around the lens that's rotating.

00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:31.480
Probably sometimes it's like the panels that

00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:35.260
are either colored glass, clear glass or their

00:38:35.260 --> 00:38:37.940
blanks. Right. Where it's like a solid. Yeah.

00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:42.199
Or. The lens itself. That's right. The lens itself,

00:38:42.340 --> 00:38:44.599
those panels, or sometimes there's a blocking

00:38:44.599 --> 00:38:47.840
object that rotates depending on when and where.

00:38:48.059 --> 00:38:49.360
Maybe it was never fixed, White. I don't know.

00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:52.960
The information is contradicting, and I've seen

00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:55.019
a picture of the lens, and it has bullseyes,

00:38:55.079 --> 00:38:58.159
so they wouldn't use bullseyes for a fixed lens.

00:38:58.780 --> 00:39:01.860
I think they can. I mean, they can, but if you're

00:39:01.860 --> 00:39:05.780
wanting them to see... a constant powerful light,

00:39:05.860 --> 00:39:08.400
you wouldn't be directing it into beams. You'd

00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:11.199
want it to be bright around. I mean, bullseyes

00:39:11.199 --> 00:39:13.420
are usually for a rotating lens that has a focused

00:39:13.420 --> 00:39:16.300
beam that passes like a flashing light. Yeah.

00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:18.699
I'm curious about that. Cause I would argue that

00:39:18.699 --> 00:39:22.940
it does make it brighter on certain lines. So

00:39:22.940 --> 00:39:25.659
I agree with you where it could be utilized to

00:39:25.659 --> 00:39:30.219
move, but also a bullseye does amplify the range

00:39:30.219 --> 00:39:33.190
of that light, even if it were to be fixed. So

00:39:33.190 --> 00:39:35.150
in some ways, even if it weren't a rotating light,

00:39:35.210 --> 00:39:38.329
you still may order bullseye lenses for each

00:39:38.329 --> 00:39:40.969
component of the lens or panels. But yeah, but

00:39:40.969 --> 00:39:42.750
if you were never... If you're never going to

00:39:42.750 --> 00:39:44.909
rotate. But if it was originally designed to

00:39:44.909 --> 00:39:47.250
not rotate, then I'm guessing they're going to

00:39:47.250 --> 00:39:51.349
add panels, not add a whole rotating component.

00:39:51.650 --> 00:39:54.789
Because what it takes to rotate a fourth or third

00:39:54.789 --> 00:39:57.050
order lens, it's not a small mechanical component

00:39:57.050 --> 00:40:00.550
to add to a lighthouse that exists. I don't know.

00:40:00.610 --> 00:40:03.710
I'm on coffee, so my brain is like, what if we

00:40:03.710 --> 00:40:05.429
talked about everything? I'm not sure exactly

00:40:05.429 --> 00:40:09.150
what happened with the lens because looking at

00:40:09.150 --> 00:40:11.710
it now, it has bullseyes. It's a flashing lens,

00:40:11.929 --> 00:40:14.929
so I don't know if it was never fixed to begin

00:40:14.929 --> 00:40:18.730
with or if they just had a lens with bullseyes.

00:40:19.389 --> 00:40:22.809
I don't know. I also don't know. I have pictures

00:40:22.809 --> 00:40:27.760
of it later, so get excited. 1891 to 92, a steam

00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:30.420
fog signal was installed in a fog building 120

00:40:30.420 --> 00:40:34.539
feet north of the lighthouse. And a new, oh,

00:40:34.579 --> 00:40:36.820
here we go. A new fourth order lens was added

00:40:36.820 --> 00:40:39.179
that reduced the flash from 90 seconds to 10

00:40:39.179 --> 00:40:42.619
seconds. So it must have been fixed and something

00:40:42.619 --> 00:40:45.380
going on. And then they added the bullseye lens

00:40:45.380 --> 00:40:49.760
for no lens. I'm sure I'm missing a very important

00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:53.780
and relevant piece of information. But if I was

00:40:53.780 --> 00:40:56.260
in charge of changing this and it's going to

00:40:56.260 --> 00:40:58.039
be fourth order and fourth order, I would just

00:40:58.039 --> 00:41:01.380
install some blocking. You know what I'm talking

00:41:01.380 --> 00:41:02.880
about? Yeah. I wish I knew what it was called.

00:41:03.300 --> 00:41:06.119
It's like a cylinder with sections. It's like

00:41:06.119 --> 00:41:11.460
there's metal sheets that cover the lens occasionally.

00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:14.800
And so then when it comes to a gap in this metal

00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:17.000
sheeting, it looks like a flash. Right. And the

00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:19.099
inside of the metal sheet is typically reflective.

00:41:19.340 --> 00:41:23.630
Yeah. So that it's... amplifies the light through

00:41:23.630 --> 00:41:28.329
anyways cool we'll leave them to their guess

00:41:28.329 --> 00:41:31.429
we'll never know i know new image so the picture

00:41:31.429 --> 00:41:34.590
i pulled up was an oil house and the fog signal

00:41:34.590 --> 00:41:36.949
building cute that they built so it's pretty

00:41:36.949 --> 00:41:40.530
cute and these are more current photos so obviously

00:41:40.530 --> 00:41:41.989
they've repainted and they're still standing

00:41:41.989 --> 00:41:45.010
today so and there's some snow never forget michigan

00:41:45.010 --> 00:41:47.269
is cold no i always forget about it until i'm

00:41:47.269 --> 00:41:49.289
looking at photos and half of them are just like

00:41:49.659 --> 00:41:53.960
icy snowy i'm like whoa forget that not a lot

00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:57.019
of lighthouses are tropical yeah that's a lot

00:41:57.019 --> 00:41:59.940
of them are very wintry especially in michigan

00:41:59.940 --> 00:42:02.840
these additions added an assistant keeper position

00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:05.119
to the lighthouse so the dwelling got an additional

00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:10.380
six rooms i was like wow i'm assuming they mean

00:42:10.380 --> 00:42:13.230
like One of the rooms is a kitchen. One is a

00:42:13.230 --> 00:42:14.949
living room. Yeah. You know. Not six bedrooms.

00:42:15.150 --> 00:42:16.610
It's not like six bedrooms. But this allowed

00:42:16.610 --> 00:42:19.329
them to split the Keeper's dwelling into two

00:42:19.329 --> 00:42:22.230
apartments for the now two Keeper's families.

00:42:23.650 --> 00:42:26.269
Picture of that. And this is where I was saying

00:42:26.269 --> 00:42:28.610
that they start to lean a little heavy into the.

00:42:28.929 --> 00:42:31.849
The farm. Yes. They really enunciated. What is

00:42:31.849 --> 00:42:34.730
this? What is it called? Gamble roof? Gable.

00:42:35.590 --> 00:42:40.219
I think it's Gable. But yeah, it's the. Breaking

00:42:40.219 --> 00:42:44.619
peaks. Like three large peaks on the truss that

00:42:44.619 --> 00:42:49.460
make up the roof. A gable roof is a normal house

00:42:49.460 --> 00:42:53.119
roof. I'm going to find it. You got me. Barn

00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:55.059
type roof? I don't know. I know it starts with

00:42:55.059 --> 00:43:01.019
a G. Please. Gambril. What? G -A -M -B -R -E

00:43:01.019 --> 00:43:04.800
-L. Okay. Gambril. I didn't know that word. And

00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:08.139
now we do. So it's got, you know, very traditional

00:43:08.139 --> 00:43:11.579
American barn look to it. Yes, like that two

00:43:11.579 --> 00:43:17.699
different angles of rooftop. Pretty fun. Very

00:43:17.699 --> 00:43:21.239
deep roof. Lots of roof space. Well, yeah, and

00:43:21.239 --> 00:43:23.639
they're usually occupied. So whether it was a

00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:27.880
hay storage or in this case bedrooms and whatnot,

00:43:27.980 --> 00:43:31.099
you know, a lot of structures in America are

00:43:31.099 --> 00:43:33.699
built with roofs that are just like attics. So

00:43:33.699 --> 00:43:36.480
it's just for insulation. These are occupied.

00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:38.539
This is random, but if I looked at this picture...

00:43:38.539 --> 00:43:42.699
What? If I looked at this picture and didn't

00:43:42.699 --> 00:43:45.579
know anything, I would say that it was AI. Because

00:43:45.579 --> 00:43:48.300
there's this one tiny building in the middle

00:43:48.300 --> 00:43:52.900
that has an exceptionally long doorway. I don't

00:43:52.900 --> 00:43:54.980
know what is happening here. And then there's

00:43:54.980 --> 00:43:59.460
a chimney that goes... Way too tall for the house

00:43:59.460 --> 00:44:01.599
it's attached to. It's like twice the height

00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:03.739
of the house it's attached to. Yeah, why would

00:44:03.739 --> 00:44:05.619
they do that? Do you think that's the steam?

00:44:06.380 --> 00:44:09.519
No, because the steam... Yeah, I don't know.

00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:15.139
But, yeah. It's like... Yeah, you're right. That

00:44:15.139 --> 00:44:17.340
little outhouse or whatever it is looks like

00:44:17.340 --> 00:44:19.559
it's inserted between the buildings. Yes. Like,

00:44:19.559 --> 00:44:21.179
what if we threw one more in the distance? Yeah,

00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:24.119
it's just fun. And then... It's like all the

00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:26.500
perception's off. Yeah, there's a man for scale

00:44:26.500 --> 00:44:29.659
on the right side, I think, near a doorway. And

00:44:29.659 --> 00:44:32.980
that chimney is absurdly tall. It's very tall.

00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:36.139
I understand if it's like smoking, you want to

00:44:36.139 --> 00:44:38.440
like keep it away. You know, you don't want a

00:44:38.440 --> 00:44:41.360
high clearance above the living spaces, but yeah,

00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:43.280
I don't know. And maybe there's a stack effect.

00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:46.460
Like, you know, we design stacks these days.

00:44:46.500 --> 00:44:48.860
So you have to have a certain height for the

00:44:48.860 --> 00:44:51.260
air to pull and then it starts to pull a consistent

00:44:51.260 --> 00:44:53.800
flow. I don't know. Maybe they knew that back

00:44:53.800 --> 00:44:56.099
then. But yeah, it definitely looks like a botched

00:44:56.099 --> 00:45:02.269
AI photo. Moving on. 1890, the apron was broken

00:45:02.269 --> 00:45:05.210
out and a ring of concrete was inserted underneath

00:45:05.210 --> 00:45:08.849
the tower to stabilize it after a lot of beachy

00:45:08.849 --> 00:45:12.769
erosion. And a curved revetment was constructed

00:45:12.769 --> 00:45:15.389
at the water's edge to absorb the energy of the

00:45:15.389 --> 00:45:18.730
waves crashing against the beach. And this was

00:45:18.730 --> 00:45:21.030
built using leftover materials for repairs at

00:45:21.030 --> 00:45:23.570
Spectacle Reef Lighthouse. That's a cool name.

00:45:24.050 --> 00:45:27.750
We haven't talked about Spectacle Reef. I think

00:45:27.750 --> 00:45:31.289
Spectacle Reef. Has a lot of the same aspects

00:45:31.289 --> 00:45:36.730
of standard rock. Like that same secludedness.

00:45:36.929 --> 00:45:39.050
We'll have to cover that one. That makes sense.

00:45:39.309 --> 00:45:41.789
I've heard about it a lot because it's tied into

00:45:41.789 --> 00:45:43.690
a bunch of other lighthouses. Our friend who

00:45:43.690 --> 00:45:46.090
studied civil engineering taught us about revetment

00:45:46.090 --> 00:45:49.809
stone. Oh, yeah. Riprap. That's right. Comes

00:45:49.809 --> 00:45:53.309
around. 1899, the dwelling and tower were painted

00:45:53.309 --> 00:45:56.989
white with red roofs as a better day mark for

00:45:56.989 --> 00:46:01.469
passing mariners during the day. In 1920, Keeper

00:46:01.469 --> 00:46:04.929
Danielson to the Bureau of Public Roads begged

00:46:04.929 --> 00:46:08.670
for some improvements to be made on the rough

00:46:08.670 --> 00:46:11.250
wagon path that ran between the lighthouse and

00:46:11.250 --> 00:46:13.929
the highway. So there was a highway. And then

00:46:13.929 --> 00:46:18.329
you had to exit onto basically like a dirt, rocky,

00:46:18.530 --> 00:46:22.489
you know, like beach path. And so he was like,

00:46:22.590 --> 00:46:25.090
please turn this into a paved road. Like we're

00:46:25.090 --> 00:46:29.320
dying out here. They were ignored for years.

00:46:29.599 --> 00:46:31.780
So after a few years, the keepers and the life

00:46:31.780 --> 00:46:34.840
-saving station, the men who worked there, did

00:46:34.840 --> 00:46:36.940
it themselves with the help of the community,

00:46:37.099 --> 00:46:40.900
finishing a serviceable road in 1924. Wow. So

00:46:40.900 --> 00:46:42.119
they just took matters into their own hands.

00:46:42.179 --> 00:46:43.960
And it was like a lot. It was a long road. It

00:46:43.960 --> 00:46:45.300
wasn't just like a little thing. It was like

00:46:45.300 --> 00:46:48.039
miles. People don't do that anymore. No. No one

00:46:48.039 --> 00:46:50.239
would be like, well, I guess we'll just do it

00:46:50.239 --> 00:46:53.179
ourselves. Yeah. With the help of our local friends.

00:46:53.579 --> 00:46:58.090
Our local friends. It just feels like maybe things

00:46:58.090 --> 00:47:01.309
get taken care of a little easier, maybe, because

00:47:01.309 --> 00:47:03.130
there's so many people. Yeah, must have been

00:47:03.130 --> 00:47:06.070
a joint interest of the locals. I don't know.

00:47:06.130 --> 00:47:10.369
Pretty cool. The lighthouse was electrified in

00:47:10.369 --> 00:47:14.389
1921, and in 1937, the life -saving station was

00:47:14.389 --> 00:47:17.530
decommissioned. And by this point, they had three

00:47:17.530 --> 00:47:20.269
keepers at the lighthouse, so two assistants

00:47:20.269 --> 00:47:22.489
and one principal. So the lighthouse service

00:47:22.489 --> 00:47:25.710
wanted to use... this life -saving station as

00:47:25.710 --> 00:47:27.889
additional housing for all the keepers who are

00:47:27.889 --> 00:47:31.650
now smashed into like the duplex which i don't

00:47:31.650 --> 00:47:33.829
think was like super uncomfortable but obviously

00:47:33.829 --> 00:47:35.849
they could always use more room they're all the

00:47:35.849 --> 00:47:38.550
time yeah but they just decided to improve the

00:47:38.550 --> 00:47:41.349
dwelling that already existed instead so the

00:47:41.349 --> 00:47:44.250
life -saving station was sold in 1945 and still

00:47:44.250 --> 00:47:47.010
stands today oh that's cool picture of that as

00:47:47.010 --> 00:47:49.550
well wow someone's private home it's so yeah

00:47:49.550 --> 00:47:52.210
it's private so i'm not A hundred percent. I'm

00:47:52.210 --> 00:47:55.110
not sure if you can go and actually look at it

00:47:55.110 --> 00:47:58.630
or if it's, maybe they'll give you a tour. I

00:47:58.630 --> 00:48:00.610
don't know. Super cool. You know, this reminds

00:48:00.610 --> 00:48:03.869
me of another life -saving station. I think it

00:48:03.869 --> 00:48:09.210
was that we saw the Outer Banks. We went, it

00:48:09.210 --> 00:48:11.309
was kind of the furthest place we drove to kind

00:48:11.309 --> 00:48:13.750
of inland. We went over a huge bridge and then

00:48:13.750 --> 00:48:16.809
we went to a lighthouse. Is it Roanoke Marshes?

00:48:17.130 --> 00:48:19.929
Yeah. It was, yeah, kind of, it was for the.

00:48:20.489 --> 00:48:23.610
um the bay or whatever it's called the cove that's

00:48:23.610 --> 00:48:26.710
the ocean yeah but remember the building on the

00:48:26.710 --> 00:48:29.630
pier looked very similar yeah the central high

00:48:29.630 --> 00:48:32.289
tower uh we couldn't go inside i think it was

00:48:32.289 --> 00:48:34.230
closed when we were there yes it was closed like

00:48:34.230 --> 00:48:37.289
five minutes before we walked over i was like

00:48:37.289 --> 00:48:38.670
why is there nobody here it's because everybody

00:48:38.670 --> 00:48:42.389
was leaving But I wonder if that was a repeated

00:48:42.389 --> 00:48:44.449
design or if it's just by happenstance it looks

00:48:44.449 --> 00:48:46.269
so similar. I think the life -saving stations

00:48:46.269 --> 00:48:48.969
always looked very similar. We talked about that,

00:48:48.969 --> 00:48:51.630
our history buoy, a couple episodes ago. We talked

00:48:51.630 --> 00:48:54.070
about the structure that was built. And usually

00:48:54.070 --> 00:48:58.530
it had this center watch tower. And then the

00:48:58.530 --> 00:49:00.909
rest of it's... I don't know. That would make

00:49:00.909 --> 00:49:05.380
for a really cool... Reading space. Well, yeah,

00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:08.380
but I was thinking like a really cool studio

00:49:08.380 --> 00:49:11.360
build. Like the one that we had seen, I think

00:49:11.360 --> 00:49:17.139
it was used as a museum. So maybe it had been

00:49:17.139 --> 00:49:20.119
changed, but there was no internal walls. So

00:49:20.119 --> 00:49:23.940
the stair tower was in the middle of the room

00:49:23.940 --> 00:49:26.300
and then the entire room was open. That'd be

00:49:26.300 --> 00:49:28.579
really cool. That would be cool. Yeah, you could

00:49:28.579 --> 00:49:30.599
do a lot of stuff with these kind of houses,

00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:35.500
but hopefully it's... You got to keep it original.

00:49:35.900 --> 00:49:39.739
Yeah. Shortly after this, the boathouse for the

00:49:39.739 --> 00:49:43.000
lighthouse collapsed from shifting sands. And

00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:46.239
in 1940, a protective wall was built using sheet

00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:49.239
pilings. Oh, yeah. Photo of that. Nice little,

00:49:49.340 --> 00:49:52.039
you can see some snow, some ice buildup. Dang,

00:49:52.059 --> 00:49:54.219
it's close to the water. I know. It's so close.

00:49:54.400 --> 00:49:56.639
You can just see it. I mean, all this is sand.

00:49:56.699 --> 00:50:00.039
So it's just, I mean, it is just a breadth away

00:50:00.039 --> 00:50:03.219
from. tipping over, or at least having some serious

00:50:03.219 --> 00:50:06.760
structural strain on the actual tower part of

00:50:06.760 --> 00:50:09.260
the lighthouse. But it's very pretty. This station

00:50:09.260 --> 00:50:12.860
is really nice looking. 1983, the Coast Guard

00:50:12.860 --> 00:50:16.260
automated Point Betsy and Sherwood Point Lighthouse,

00:50:16.320 --> 00:50:18.480
which were the last two manned lighthouses on

00:50:18.480 --> 00:50:21.130
the Great Lakes. Oh, cool. So the Coast Guard

00:50:21.130 --> 00:50:24.389
personnel continued to live at the station until

00:50:24.389 --> 00:50:27.510
the heating system gave out in the dwelling in

00:50:27.510 --> 00:50:31.510
1996. So it's a long time of it just being housing

00:50:31.510 --> 00:50:35.869
for the Coast Guard. That's crazy. I was born

00:50:35.869 --> 00:50:41.110
in 95. I know it puts into perspective like the

00:50:41.110 --> 00:50:44.909
lifetime of a lighthouse is so long ago. Yeah.

00:50:44.969 --> 00:50:47.739
I know it was the history of Bowie, not. directly

00:50:47.739 --> 00:50:49.199
related to the lighthouse but we're talking about

00:50:49.199 --> 00:50:53.920
the 1800s like 1805 i think yeah 1850 you know

00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:57.300
the date i saw and then now someone in the coast

00:50:57.300 --> 00:50:59.880
guard was living here past the time that i was

00:50:59.880 --> 00:51:03.500
born yeah it is crazy it's a long story but it

00:51:03.500 --> 00:51:05.940
would have been cool to be alive if you cared

00:51:05.940 --> 00:51:10.539
about lighthouses so many ifs you know but It

00:51:10.539 --> 00:51:12.199
would have been cool to be alive earlier than

00:51:12.199 --> 00:51:14.980
this. Oh, yeah. You could care about them. Traveling

00:51:14.980 --> 00:51:16.920
in history. Yeah. Have your hands in there. That's

00:51:16.920 --> 00:51:18.300
kind of fun. That's what's fun about traveling

00:51:18.300 --> 00:51:20.960
to lighthouses now, or that they would never

00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:23.119
make sense today. Yeah. No one would ever build

00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:25.400
a lighthouse today, practically. But there was

00:51:25.400 --> 00:51:28.159
a time when that was the practical pinnacle of

00:51:28.159 --> 00:51:30.920
technology. Yeah. And so that was what, obviously,

00:51:30.980 --> 00:51:33.280
that's what everyone did. So when we travel and

00:51:33.280 --> 00:51:35.360
we see these places, you can kind of step into

00:51:35.360 --> 00:51:38.190
them, climb the tower, be a part of it. When

00:51:38.190 --> 00:51:40.510
we talk about 1996, the closest thing I think

00:51:40.510 --> 00:51:44.030
of is the Lighthouse Act, which is early 2000s.

00:51:44.030 --> 00:51:48.289
2000, exactly. 2000. So there was, in the 90s,

00:51:48.289 --> 00:51:51.130
some of the records we saw, I'm thinking of Absecon

00:51:51.130 --> 00:51:53.789
Lighthouse specifically. Lighthouses were really

00:51:53.789 --> 00:51:58.630
not in vogue. There wasn't as many restorations

00:51:58.630 --> 00:52:00.610
going on. Well, and people were like, oh, they're

00:52:00.610 --> 00:52:03.469
decrepit, let's tear it down. No, wait, there

00:52:03.469 --> 00:52:05.530
has to be a group that cares a lot about it.

00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:08.519
that forms and then takes over the lighthouse.

00:52:08.619 --> 00:52:12.059
Otherwise, they just fall down. So, I'm glad

00:52:12.059 --> 00:52:13.760
we have some great photos. Yeah. It's really

00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:16.480
nice. Agree. 2004, the title of the lighthouse

00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:19.239
was transferred to Benzie County, which I assume

00:52:19.239 --> 00:52:21.500
is the city that it's in. Probably. Or, you know,

00:52:21.500 --> 00:52:23.860
the county. We immediately leased it to the friends

00:52:23.860 --> 00:52:25.920
of Point Betsy Lighthouse, which was formed in

00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:29.320
2002. They renovated the outside of the lighthouse

00:52:29.320 --> 00:52:33.500
for $1 million in 2006. That's crazy. Like we

00:52:33.500 --> 00:52:35.219
just talked about. That's like $12 million today.

00:52:35.980 --> 00:52:38.860
We just talked about, what's the lighthouse we

00:52:38.860 --> 00:52:41.500
just did? Which one? Not Chris Point. Bonita?

00:52:42.179 --> 00:52:48.599
No, the one that we just. My brain is not working

00:52:48.599 --> 00:52:53.619
today. Avery Point. Yeah. Good Lord. We just

00:52:53.619 --> 00:52:55.699
recorded this four days ago. Well, it's been

00:52:55.699 --> 00:52:58.039
a long four days. Planning a wedding. So we were

00:52:58.039 --> 00:53:00.860
just talking about how that one that they renovated

00:53:00.860 --> 00:53:05.449
it for $500 ,000. Yeah. Modern day. And we were

00:53:05.449 --> 00:53:07.789
like, oh, that seems like a lot, but also not

00:53:07.789 --> 00:53:10.449
a lot at all. Well, one million dollars for doing

00:53:10.449 --> 00:53:15.170
the outside of the lighthouse in 2006. But they

00:53:15.170 --> 00:53:17.409
reverted the colors back to its original black

00:53:17.409 --> 00:53:20.130
lantern room, green trim and doors and bright

00:53:20.130 --> 00:53:23.170
red cedar shingled roof. That's cool. So they

00:53:23.170 --> 00:53:26.570
went back to our natural beginning colors. I

00:53:26.570 --> 00:53:30.829
mean, after the yellow brick section. In 2008,

00:53:30.969 --> 00:53:32.989
the Fog Signal building was restored, followed

00:53:32.989 --> 00:53:35.949
by the interior of the lighthouse. So went back

00:53:35.949 --> 00:53:38.210
and did a double whammy. And the group was awarded

00:53:38.210 --> 00:53:40.349
the Governor's Award for Historic Preservation

00:53:40.349 --> 00:53:42.750
for all of the work they did. No kidding. It

00:53:42.750 --> 00:53:46.070
was done so well and so historically accurate

00:53:46.070 --> 00:53:48.050
that they got an award for it. That's awesome.

00:53:48.329 --> 00:53:51.090
On top of all of that, they also located the

00:53:51.090 --> 00:53:53.610
original Fourth Order lens, which was at the

00:53:53.610 --> 00:53:56.429
Sleeping Bear Point Coast Guard Station slash

00:53:56.429 --> 00:53:59.320
Maritime Museum. and return it to the lighthouse

00:53:59.320 --> 00:54:02.340
to display, which you can go see today. Inside?

00:54:02.519 --> 00:54:05.360
Yeah. Cool. So this is where I was like, it definitely

00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:07.360
has bullseyes and they're all touching. It's

00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:09.900
so cute. Yeah. Like little cells separating.

00:54:10.179 --> 00:54:13.300
I wonder what the cost of that would be. To buy

00:54:13.300 --> 00:54:16.139
it now? Gosh, I don't even know. Because that's

00:54:16.139 --> 00:54:21.400
pretty dope. So particular and also very like

00:54:21.400 --> 00:54:25.199
specified, you know, like who's making Fresnel

00:54:25.199 --> 00:54:29.679
lenses. Well, they've always been high -precision

00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:34.079
glass. Yeah. Very expensive. Very specific uses.

00:54:34.079 --> 00:54:36.760
And now that they're not made, really, because

00:54:36.760 --> 00:54:40.840
they're not needed. Pretty cool. Very beautiful

00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:45.239
picture. 2022, so very recently. The Coast Guard

00:54:45.239 --> 00:54:47.519
installed an LED beacon into the lantern room,

00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:50.599
so it's officially lit once again. Nice. I have

00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:52.699
a current picture here of what it looks like.

00:54:52.699 --> 00:54:56.199
And you can see that they've done some more concrete

00:54:56.199 --> 00:54:59.079
work on the front. So they've completely removed

00:54:59.079 --> 00:55:03.739
the chance for the sand to be displaced in front

00:55:03.739 --> 00:55:05.280
of the lighthouse because they covered it all

00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:08.480
with concrete. I wonder what those stones are

00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:11.559
for. Maybe breaking up waves before they reach

00:55:11.559 --> 00:55:13.780
the lighthouse. Could be. Because it's right,

00:55:13.860 --> 00:55:17.699
I mean, the water's right there. It is pretty

00:55:17.699 --> 00:55:20.449
crazy. Interesting. I have another one that shows

00:55:20.449 --> 00:55:22.769
further out. We still have that sheet. The sheet

00:55:22.769 --> 00:55:27.250
pilings. Yes. And some groins to break up the

00:55:27.250 --> 00:55:29.630
water that comes in. So they're doing a lot of

00:55:29.630 --> 00:55:34.090
different methods for stopping ocean power reaching

00:55:34.090 --> 00:55:36.829
the lighthouse. Well, and what an investment

00:55:36.829 --> 00:55:39.389
it is, too. Not only the modern money, but the

00:55:39.389 --> 00:55:41.650
history that's there. You really got to try to

00:55:41.650 --> 00:55:43.269
protect it. Yeah, you might as well do everything

00:55:43.269 --> 00:55:46.010
to try and give it a chance. Man, it looks gorgeous.

00:55:46.269 --> 00:55:47.889
It is beautiful. I really love this. This must

00:55:47.889 --> 00:55:52.599
be summertime. Yeah. The water's blue. Grass

00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:56.059
and trees are green. Yeah. Nowadays, you can

00:55:56.059 --> 00:55:59.300
actually visit the lighthouse 10 to 5, except

00:55:59.300 --> 00:56:02.219
Tuesdays and most Sundays. So specific. Oh, that's

00:56:02.219 --> 00:56:05.639
so nice. Specific days. Tours are $5, and they

00:56:05.639 --> 00:56:07.860
have, looking at pictures online, they have an

00:56:07.860 --> 00:56:10.860
excellent gift shop. Lots of merch options. Looks

00:56:10.860 --> 00:56:14.500
high quality. And you can spend a night in the

00:56:14.500 --> 00:56:18.579
lighthouse for $595 for six guests, two night

00:56:18.579 --> 00:56:20.920
minimum. It's a deal. And if you look at their

00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:22.619
website, the inside is adorable. Like the way

00:56:22.619 --> 00:56:24.679
it's decorated is the way I want my house to

00:56:24.679 --> 00:56:27.039
be decorated. You're telling me we could do like

00:56:27.039 --> 00:56:30.260
a golf trip there. Yes. Two nights. Two nights,

00:56:30.280 --> 00:56:35.300
stay in the lighthouse, play golf. Sold. And

00:56:35.300 --> 00:56:41.630
then we fly overseas. Kind of awesome. So they

00:56:41.630 --> 00:56:44.070
also keep track of live visitor counts on their

00:56:44.070 --> 00:56:46.150
website. So I'm not sure if when you walk in,

00:56:46.170 --> 00:56:48.150
you have to like press a button or something,

00:56:48.210 --> 00:56:50.750
or if somebody's actually keeping tally, but

00:56:50.750 --> 00:56:52.250
it's like their website. It's like, how many

00:56:52.250 --> 00:56:54.230
visitors have we had today? And it's like 27.

00:56:55.250 --> 00:56:57.550
Interesting. Well, I wonder if it's like, you

00:56:57.550 --> 00:57:00.150
know, when they collect payment, it's accounted

00:57:00.150 --> 00:57:02.429
for. Oh yeah, probably. Probably automated. But

00:57:02.429 --> 00:57:05.630
it's like a tour is $5, but you can go in regardless.

00:57:05.750 --> 00:57:09.039
You can just go into the shop. Yeah. Yeah. Or

00:57:09.039 --> 00:57:11.239
like visitors on the grounds or whatever. That's

00:57:11.239 --> 00:57:13.300
cool. But I love it. I've never seen a live visitor

00:57:13.300 --> 00:57:15.460
account kept on a lighthouse website. Even Google

00:57:15.460 --> 00:57:17.500
is really interesting because it tracks people's

00:57:17.500 --> 00:57:19.380
location. Oh, yeah. So you can look at like,

00:57:19.500 --> 00:57:20.940
if I'm going to look at a bar or restaurant,

00:57:21.219 --> 00:57:23.239
it'll be like, oh, it's busy right now. Yes.

00:57:23.239 --> 00:57:25.099
It's busier than usual. Busier than usual, yeah.

00:57:25.219 --> 00:57:27.519
What? And I'm like, oh, no. How do they know

00:57:27.519 --> 00:57:31.079
where we all are? Well. They've known for a long

00:57:31.079 --> 00:57:35.429
time. Yeah. Easy answer. So. They're also doing

00:57:35.429 --> 00:57:39.849
haunted lighthouse tours in October 17 through

00:57:39.849 --> 00:57:42.269
18. So when this posts, it's going to be this

00:57:42.269 --> 00:57:44.650
coming weekend. Oh, yeah. Go out there. Yeah.

00:57:44.789 --> 00:57:49.110
Friday, Saturday and the October 24 and 25. And

00:57:49.110 --> 00:57:53.030
they're $15 for a tour. So that's cheap. Go and

00:57:53.030 --> 00:57:55.349
check it out. Is there any haunted history here?

00:57:55.610 --> 00:57:57.630
Not that I know of. Just like, wouldn't it be

00:57:57.630 --> 00:58:00.409
spooky if? I'm sure. I mean, there's got to be

00:58:00.409 --> 00:58:02.960
something. going on i'm sure there's some history

00:58:02.960 --> 00:58:05.880
we maybe there's a lot of lighthouses that don't

00:58:05.880 --> 00:58:09.480
project their yeah they don't want to like and

00:58:09.480 --> 00:58:12.139
people died here yeah it's like we don't need

00:58:12.139 --> 00:58:14.920
to people people have died at most lighthouses

00:58:14.920 --> 00:58:18.920
yeah which is even interesting you know from

00:58:18.920 --> 00:58:22.159
painting the lighthouse i mean it'll just be

00:58:22.159 --> 00:58:24.619
stuff like that or it's nothing nefarious but

00:58:24.619 --> 00:58:27.139
there's a lot of a lot of people drowning right

00:58:27.139 --> 00:58:31.739
outside that's not all successful um rescues

00:58:31.739 --> 00:58:33.840
and stuff so yeah if you're interested in that

00:58:33.840 --> 00:58:36.460
we have several episodes we've covered haunted

00:58:36.460 --> 00:58:39.340
histories yeah of lighthouses and and that's

00:58:39.340 --> 00:58:42.940
what yours is there's been murder there's been

00:58:42.940 --> 00:58:45.760
ghosts there's been accidental deaths drowning

00:58:45.760 --> 00:58:50.260
lots of spooky episodes we've covered urns urns

00:58:50.260 --> 00:58:52.420
that's not one we've covered can you believe

00:58:52.420 --> 00:58:55.300
that we covered a lighthouse yeah and then got

00:58:55.300 --> 00:58:57.179
rid of it and now it's something we really should

00:58:57.179 --> 00:59:01.099
cover terrible tilly Terrible Tillamook Lighthouse.

00:59:01.940 --> 00:59:04.039
That's what you should cover for the next episode.

00:59:04.119 --> 00:59:06.940
You know the history. No, I don't remember. That

00:59:06.940 --> 00:59:08.420
was years ago. That was three years ago. All

00:59:08.420 --> 00:59:10.920
right. Maybe I'll cover Terrible Tillamook. Vince

00:59:10.920 --> 00:59:12.920
is going to do something spooky for Halloween,

00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:15.960
which his episode will be posted, I think, a

00:59:15.960 --> 00:59:17.500
week before Halloween or something. Perfect.

00:59:17.800 --> 00:59:20.420
Maybe even less. 27th? I can't remember. Somewhere

00:59:20.420 --> 00:59:23.239
in there. Whatever Monday is before Halloween.

00:59:23.659 --> 00:59:25.639
Lots of good options. But that's all I have.

00:59:25.739 --> 00:59:30.179
Point Betsy Lighthouse. A good full -length episode

00:59:30.179 --> 00:59:33.639
for you guys, plus a full -length buoy. I basically

00:59:33.639 --> 00:59:36.239
just absolutely destroyed it today. You did.

00:59:36.280 --> 00:59:39.500
You crushed it. Like waves on the beach. Crushed

00:59:39.500 --> 00:59:42.099
it. Also, what was the county's name one more

00:59:42.099 --> 00:59:44.820
time? Is it in your notes? Because how did Point

00:59:44.820 --> 00:59:47.059
Betsy get its name? We never talked about that.

00:59:47.159 --> 00:59:51.239
It's Benzie County, but Point Betsy, it was the...

00:59:51.239 --> 00:59:54.019
There's a long Native American history of how

00:59:54.019 --> 00:59:57.320
the point got... betsy it was like derived from

00:59:57.320 --> 01:00:00.179
their original name which was like sawfish it

01:00:00.179 --> 01:00:03.320
was how they saw fish so i don't know i just

01:00:03.320 --> 01:00:08.239
wonder if like benzy was it benzy yeah benzy

01:00:08.239 --> 01:00:11.300
county yeah betsy i don't know i think the county

01:00:11.300 --> 01:00:13.980
came after the name of the point so could have

01:00:13.980 --> 01:00:17.280
been a shared derivation yeah sure or not if

01:00:17.280 --> 01:00:19.780
you know you never know let us know yeah anything

01:00:19.780 --> 01:00:23.480
else you'd like to add No. Talk about how great

01:00:23.480 --> 01:00:26.380
I am. You did really great today. We're over

01:00:26.380 --> 01:00:28.539
an hour of current time. I think it'll be about

01:00:28.539 --> 01:00:31.539
an hour after editing. Yeah, probably. Because

01:00:31.539 --> 01:00:33.900
we were interrupted for a football game at one

01:00:33.900 --> 01:00:39.199
point, which is great. That's so good. What else?

01:00:39.900 --> 01:00:43.840
I think, honestly, we'll look at, I've been talking

01:00:43.840 --> 01:00:45.900
about merch a lot lately. I think we'll be looking

01:00:45.900 --> 01:00:48.639
in the new year for merch. Yeah, we're doing

01:00:48.639 --> 01:00:51.119
wedding stuff. We made promises we can't keep.

01:00:51.500 --> 01:00:54.739
And honestly, seasonally, it'd be more fun to

01:00:54.739 --> 01:00:57.139
have spring and summer where people are thinking

01:00:57.139 --> 01:00:59.219
about lighthouses more often. I do want a sweatshirt,

01:00:59.260 --> 01:01:00.980
though. I think what we'll do is I'll try to

01:01:00.980 --> 01:01:04.119
have it prepared around New Year's, and then

01:01:04.119 --> 01:01:06.000
hopefully we'll be able to keep some stock going

01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:09.260
for you folks who are interested in a couple

01:01:09.260 --> 01:01:11.519
of various items. And those are something you

01:01:11.519 --> 01:01:15.119
can buy on our website. We'll start a tab, a

01:01:15.119 --> 01:01:17.239
page of our website that's for merch, so you

01:01:17.239 --> 01:01:19.079
can buy it directly from there through probably

01:01:19.079 --> 01:01:24.940
a Shopify link. I don't know. Length. I'm starting

01:01:24.940 --> 01:01:28.219
to lose enunciate. That's all I had to say. And

01:01:28.219 --> 01:01:29.840
thank you for today's episode. It was really

01:01:29.840 --> 01:01:32.719
fun. Yeah, you're welcome. And you can check

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