Episode 46 - Pemaquid Point Lighthouse

100:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,780Hi everyone, I'm Emily and I'm Vince and this is the lighthouse lowdown200:00:13,320 --> 00:00:18,480I have a question for you. Okay. Is it like a okay? Why do dogs float?300:00:20,640 --> 00:00:22,820Is the bark and bark floats400:00:22,820 --> 00:00:28,660Because they're good boys our500:00:32,180 --> 00:00:36,520Poor listeners. I know I just saw it and decided for our history buoy600:00:37,140 --> 00:00:43,940The intro into our history movie that just be a little joke time good boys. Yeah, so today I'm going to do a700:00:44,580 --> 00:00:45,980current event800:00:45,980 --> 00:00:50,140Sort of history buoy. Okay current history buoy nice, Sanibel Island900:00:50,140 --> 00:00:54,460You've covered that lighthouse before I think that was episode 341000:00:55,260 --> 00:00:58,500We talked about how hurricane Ian hit it1100:00:59,500 --> 00:01:04,380It was about 16 months ago and the leg was lost on Sanibel Island lighthouse1200:01:04,380 --> 00:01:10,500It has four legs and one of them was knocked out by the keepers cottages that had swept out of the storm1300:01:10,500 --> 00:01:15,180Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, one of them took out the leg as it was being swept out. So1400:01:17,340 --> 00:01:19,340Nothing without you1500:01:19,340 --> 00:01:21,340Trying to cling on wait1600:01:21,860 --> 00:01:27,100Help me. Yeah, but it was still standing. Yes, and as of1700:01:27,780 --> 00:01:30,940January 23rd, they replaced the lake finally1800:01:30,940 --> 00:01:37,120It has all four legs originally it had a wooden leg for the past like 16 months and now it has1900:01:37,620 --> 00:01:42,180Officially had its cast iron leg put back on and they actually use the pieces from the old2000:01:42,180 --> 00:01:49,420Leg to make a mold for the new leg. So yes Sanibel2100:01:50,420 --> 00:01:56,500Pretty cool. You old peg leg. Yeah, cool. So that's a nice little update. Yeah, do you have any photos to show?2200:01:56,500 --> 00:02:01,940Do you have a photo? Oh, yeah, the left is a picture of the wooden leg that it had for a long time2300:02:01,940 --> 00:02:04,820That is a nice wood. Yeah, they did a good job on it2400:02:04,820 --> 00:02:12,940They actually cared and then the cast iron leg being put on January 23rd. Awesome this year. I think after this2500:02:12,940 --> 00:02:18,580They're going to focus on doing like a recoding of the outside and the inside of the lighthouse2600:02:20,060 --> 00:02:24,540But they don't have any plans right now to replace the cottages, which is kind of a big bummer. Hmm2700:02:24,620 --> 00:02:27,140it would be a huge undertaking and I2800:02:27,940 --> 00:02:31,580Don't know. It would just be yeah. I mean a lot of what a cottage is2900:02:31,580 --> 00:02:35,900Whatever that English is is valued in its history3000:02:35,900 --> 00:02:38,860Yeah, exactly not necessarily what it does today3100:02:38,860 --> 00:02:45,860Mm-hmm, like it still has its historical value and everything but they'd be replicas. They wouldn't be like restored versions3200:02:45,860 --> 00:02:52,260I don't know there's value in rebuilding but I don't know how much effort they want to put towards that when they're still trying to recover from3300:02:52,260 --> 00:02:57,340Yeah, okay. Can you remember what this type of tower is called? I can't3400:02:57,340 --> 00:02:58,860Skeleton3500:02:58,860 --> 00:03:00,380Skeleton tower3600:03:00,380 --> 00:03:02,380Skeleton tower3700:03:02,380 --> 00:03:04,380I feel like there's another3800:03:05,060 --> 00:03:08,380descriptor I'm trying to think of well where that you know the3900:03:09,700 --> 00:03:14,900Cylinder that is the stairwell and oh, yeah the center, you know column. Yeah4000:03:15,700 --> 00:03:19,780Pretty cool. I gave you an answer. So take it early. That's probably the right answer4100:03:21,540 --> 00:03:27,820Okay, so that was my history buoy a little bit of current history for you and speaking of storm damage4200:03:27,820 --> 00:03:32,780I'm going to launch into my episode today. The only reason I've been seeing this lighthouse4300:03:32,780 --> 00:03:36,500It's actually all over my feed right now because of something that's happened recently4400:03:36,500 --> 00:03:42,720No another January event that I will be talking about later, but we're gonna be heading to Bristol, Maine4500:03:43,020 --> 00:03:48,660So another main lighthouse and going crazy on main lighthouses. It's not my fault. They just show up4600:03:48,660 --> 00:03:49,300Okay4700:03:49,300 --> 00:03:55,740Most of the lighthouses that I cover they just fall into my lap somehow like it's a listener suggestion or there's like current events going4800:03:55,740 --> 00:03:59,900On or something like that. Yeah, usually I'm not researching lighthouses to cover4900:03:59,900 --> 00:04:04,340They just kind of fall into my lap you mentioned that but you couldn't say anything else. What else is there to say?5000:04:04,380 --> 00:04:09,560What are you talking about? I mean around the house. Oh before this episode. Oh, yeah. Yeah5100:04:10,740 --> 00:04:12,740so5200:04:13,540 --> 00:04:15,540Go snow5300:04:16,940 --> 00:04:22,220Sail to the coast of Maine in 1602 for areas to settle and I looked into the sky just before we started recording5400:04:22,220 --> 00:04:27,740Cuz I was gonna leave it at that like he came here and found that there were it was already like a popular fishing spot5500:04:27,740 --> 00:04:32,420For like Native Americans and like European people had already come over here. It's like it's not the first time5600:04:32,940 --> 00:04:35,020Europeans have come over but it was the first5700:04:36,180 --> 00:04:38,540When he came over here in 1602 is the first5800:04:39,500 --> 00:04:40,860official5900:04:40,860 --> 00:04:42,060recorded6000:04:42,060 --> 00:04:44,480European excursion to Cape Cod6100:04:44,820 --> 00:04:48,660Which is so weird because Vince and I are planning a Cape Cod trip right now6200:04:48,660 --> 00:04:53,260We've decided that we're gonna go to Cape Cod Cape Cod. Yeah, and so what a weird thing6300:04:53,260 --> 00:04:56,540He's the one who named it Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard. Oh6400:04:57,180 --> 00:05:02,300Who is Martha Martha was his deceased daughter who was named after his wife's mom?6500:05:02,940 --> 00:05:10,460That's sad and when they crossed it it was uninhabited and it was covered in wild grapes. So we call that Martha's Vineyard6600:05:10,460 --> 00:05:13,900That's really cool. Really awesome and Cape Cod was because there was a ton of fish6700:05:13,900 --> 00:05:15,900So6800:05:15,940 --> 00:05:23,420Anyway, he was considered instrumental to the founding of the Virginia Company and Jamestown because he was like the go-to guy for6900:05:24,140 --> 00:05:30,660Boating excursions. I don't know the Virginia Company. Should I do you not watch Pocahontas Disney's Pocahontas?7000:05:30,660 --> 00:05:32,660I've seen it when I was a child7100:05:32,660 --> 00:05:34,660Virginia Company7200:05:36,660 --> 00:05:38,660You have to remind me7300:05:38,660 --> 00:05:45,640That's like an exploitory group or their shipbuilders or I want to say that they okay. I actually don't know7400:05:45,640 --> 00:05:49,060I just know that they were behind sending everyone to7500:05:50,300 --> 00:05:56,720Is it a dark history John Smith off to huh? Is it a dark history? I don't think it's very good. Yeah7600:05:59,100 --> 00:06:00,340So7700:06:00,340 --> 00:06:01,460Bart7800:06:01,460 --> 00:06:07,260So Bart just noted that he came across Pemaquid Point, which is what we're gonna be covering today7900:06:07,260 --> 00:06:11,780Okay, and it was already like inhabited with very friendly Native Americans who had come across8000:06:12,420 --> 00:06:17,460Europeans already and knew like how to trade like they had furs and they were really friendly and8100:06:17,940 --> 00:06:20,500Actually Bartholomew was the one who destroyed that8200:06:21,020 --> 00:06:26,300Sort of good feelings. So by the time that the Mayflower came things were very hostile8300:06:27,060 --> 00:06:31,780Americans because of how he treated them bars. So Bart Bart Bart Bart8400:06:31,780 --> 00:06:36,780Bart shameful behavior Pemaquid Point was popular for fishing and stuff8500:06:36,780 --> 00:06:39,360But they didn't get a lighthouse until two centuries after that8600:06:39,360 --> 00:06:45,680So it's like slow settling sort of thing and really just became this is a Native American inhabited area8700:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,820Um, I assume pretty much everything was8800:06:49,520 --> 00:06:54,320Right, but okay. You're saying it was fishing. So it was like settlers were yeah, it was like a spattering8900:06:54,320 --> 00:06:56,760It wasn't like an official settlement or anything like that9000:06:56,760 --> 00:07:03,680But then over time over the course of two centuries it became something where they needed to add a lighthouse. So we got Pemaquid Point9100:07:04,800 --> 00:07:09,760$4,000 was set aside for the light station. It was a rubble stone tower, which cool we don't9200:07:10,520 --> 00:07:16,840Have good history of rubble stone lasting very long a keepers cottage with an enormous kitchen is what was mentioned9300:07:16,840 --> 00:07:23,780I don't know what the purpose of that was but I actually have a picture. Here's a Pemaquid the station9400:07:23,780 --> 00:07:30,500So it's really cool in this picture. You can see keepers cottage the tower and then in the back is the fogbell station9500:07:31,220 --> 00:07:33,940First off. I like the fogbell station. I9600:07:34,700 --> 00:07:40,340Don't know why I like the fence their white picket fence. Yeah seems entirely unnecessary9700:07:42,500 --> 00:07:46,460They spent some time on it and then look at the ocean scary9800:07:46,460 --> 00:07:52,940Yeah, very rough rough ocean area and this cliff is like pretty sloped, but I'm pretty sure it's like 40 feet tall9900:07:52,940 --> 00:07:57,220Okay, so from this perspective, it looks like nothing. Yeah, it looks like we're right on the edge of the water10000:07:57,220 --> 00:08:02,800But there's some distance all right. Even the picket fence is right up on the edge of where the rocks and10100:08:03,380 --> 00:08:08,860Like the cliff stuff holding in the civilization, especially the like fog horton building. Look at that. It's pretty cool10200:08:09,140 --> 00:08:15,540It's photoshopped floating out there. I know I think it's because the chimney looks like it's going underneath of it. Yeah, what is it?10300:08:15,540 --> 00:08:22,540I think it's from this perspective. Yeah, this is the current tower. It's not the one that we got in10400:08:23,780 --> 00:08:27,0201827 they bid it out in 1826 and I found a picture10500:08:27,900 --> 00:08:34,380of the newspaper newspaper clipping that was put out like trying to get a bid or trying to bid10600:08:35,180 --> 00:08:37,180construction for this lighthouse so10700:08:37,180 --> 00:08:45,3401826 that crazy some 22nd and they kind of just say what they're looking for and somebody is like10800:08:45,460 --> 00:08:49,380I'll bid on it for this much nuts. That crazy like what a weird10900:08:50,980 --> 00:08:58,860Casual way to have something like this constructed. That's crazy. I'm trying to read this part covered with copper as well as the11000:09:00,100 --> 00:09:02,860Something in something they do. I'm sorry. I couldn't read it11100:09:02,860 --> 00:09:07,780I thought I was gonna be able to read it as well as the rabbit it shuts into maybe some11200:09:08,340 --> 00:09:11,660Sort of time we don't understand. Yeah, I11300:09:12,340 --> 00:09:17,020Couldn't walls of the tower to be well pointed and whitewashed twice over11400:09:18,100 --> 00:09:21,740outside and inside laid a deke of soap11500:09:22,860 --> 00:09:24,860Stan soapstone11600:09:24,860 --> 00:09:32,500So he's gone. I wonder if there's any typos. That's a deck. Oh, ah11700:09:33,020 --> 00:09:37,180Damn it. Good work, or if a deke is a word. I don't know from the year 182611800:09:37,180 --> 00:09:41,700I think deck is probably right. We don't need to sit here and try and decide pretty cool though. Sorry. Yeah, it is very cool11900:09:41,700 --> 00:09:45,340I got that from the US LHS as per usual as usual12000:09:45,340 --> 00:09:54,540So construction was completed in November of the next year $500 under budget and fixed white light went into service12100:09:54,900 --> 00:10:01,060But unfortunately this tower only lasted eight years before they needed a new one and they put the reasoning12200:10:01,940 --> 00:10:07,500That salt water had somehow gotten into the mortar before it was applied to the lighthouse12300:10:07,540 --> 00:10:12,820Yeah, and so it just kind of crumbled. Did we talk about this before with a different lighthouse?12400:10:12,820 --> 00:10:18,100I bet I think we're all of the towers we've covered so far that have been rubble stone have not12500:10:19,020 --> 00:10:26,260For very long. There's another I can't tell you all the details, but there's more construction of lighthouses that I'm doing research on12600:10:26,260 --> 00:10:28,260oh, yeah in the past and12700:10:29,020 --> 00:10:34,660Talking about sea water in the concrete will be something that comes up again for the cement. I guess okay interesting12800:10:34,660 --> 00:10:36,660Yeah, we might have talked about it before but12900:10:36,860 --> 00:10:38,140So they build a new tower13000:10:38,140 --> 00:10:45,420It was conical granite white and a little bit like ochre coke s is what I kind of think of when I look at white and chubby13100:10:45,540 --> 00:10:47,900Yeah, like lumpy American13200:10:48,860 --> 00:10:52,620Affectionately we say lumpy but it's 30 feet to the lantern deck13300:10:52,620 --> 00:10:54,940I think I read that it was 38 feet total13400:10:54,940 --> 00:10:55,420Okay13500:10:55,420 --> 00:11:03,420And had an octagonal lantern room and current the current keeper Dunham said a better tower and the lantern never was built in13600:11:03,420 --> 00:11:08,060This state and then he also said also the lamps reflectors and apparatus is according to contract. Oh13700:11:10,660 --> 00:11:17,780Why even meant why even throw he's like this is the best tower of all time and also the lamps are fine13800:11:18,060 --> 00:11:20,060The lamps are you know?13900:11:20,580 --> 00:11:23,480Above and beyond I guess so here's a here's an old photo14000:11:23,480 --> 00:11:28,300I didn't read a lot about anything other than chickens being raised on this land14100:11:28,300 --> 00:11:36,600Mmm, but I'll mention later that it was very fertile soil. So, okay. There's a lot of a lot of vegetable and farming going on here14200:11:36,600 --> 00:11:40,260That's a little property. Yeah, and this actually is a picture of the keepers cottage14300:11:40,860 --> 00:11:45,300Before they painted it. I think they painted in 1875 to be white, which is what it is today14400:11:45,540 --> 00:11:47,900But was that brick probably? Mm-hmm14500:11:47,900 --> 00:11:51,020so keeper Dunham was the first keeper of this lighthouse and14600:11:51,580 --> 00:11:57,460Served at Pembroke point for an a decade before he went back to farming which is what he was doing before this14700:11:57,460 --> 00:12:03,380his sixth child Benjamin Franklin Dunham was born in the station and14800:12:04,300 --> 00:12:09,460When his father died shortly after the new tower was constructed and he died inside the station14900:12:09,460 --> 00:12:13,280So I don't really have the details on duty. Yeah. Well, he was his dad15000:12:13,980 --> 00:12:18,980Keepers dad so I don't know if he went there for like care or if he was just like visiting and something happened15100:12:18,980 --> 00:12:27,380But he was buried in a small cemetery near the light and by looking at the Dunham family history newsletter. I15200:12:27,740 --> 00:12:32,820Found out that it was called Curtis Cemetery and I can't find it on Google Maps, but I'm gonna trust them15300:12:32,860 --> 00:12:38,380They probably know what they're talking about probably on the property or says it's close close. So I don't know15400:12:38,740 --> 00:12:42,020Well back then close was really close. Yeah like in the backyard15500:12:42,020 --> 00:12:49,540So keeper Dunham was mentioned a lot because he first of all was the first keeper here for a whole decade and15600:12:50,100 --> 00:12:56,620also because he patented a way to keep the whale's oil in the lamp from coagulating or15700:12:57,140 --> 00:12:59,140congealing in the winter and15800:12:59,740 --> 00:13:04,700Congress ordered the Treasury to start implementing it in lighthouses15900:13:04,700 --> 00:13:10,340Oh cool, but we don't really know exactly how much it was adopted or even what his patent16000:13:10,340 --> 00:13:15,140Was really like yeah, it's like you can't find it. You know that it happened, but can't find the history of16100:13:15,780 --> 00:13:19,820I've seen several sources that say there's no record of16200:13:20,700 --> 00:13:26,620How well it was implemented and then another one was like we don't know what it was interesting. Yeah. Yeah, I mean16300:13:27,620 --> 00:13:32,580Yeah patents have a pretty good history. I know there's so many records that was what kind of oil16400:13:32,900 --> 00:13:36,340Whales oil in this lighthouse. I wonder if that's why it didn't matter16500:13:36,340 --> 00:13:40,460It's because it changed the fuel source changed. Yeah, that's true. I16600:13:41,060 --> 00:13:42,060don't know the whole history of that16700:13:42,060 --> 00:13:47,940Like maybe they found that if it wasn't whales oil if it was something else some other kind of oil16800:13:47,940 --> 00:13:52,340It didn't work as well or wasn't necessary or something. Yeah. Yeah, cuz whales oil16900:13:52,860 --> 00:13:58,740Was kind of dropped off pretty quick. Wasn't it? I don't know the history. I think so17000:13:58,740 --> 00:14:01,260I'll have to do that again. I covered kerosene17100:14:01,260 --> 00:14:06,260Yeah, I covered beacons in like my second episode17200:14:07,060 --> 00:14:08,060But17300:14:08,060 --> 00:14:12,940I was a long time ago. Yeah, I know there's been several fuel oils. Yeah of different types17400:14:13,820 --> 00:14:20,300Isaac who was keeper Dunham also built barns on the property. I'm not sure if they're still there17500:14:20,300 --> 00:14:22,420I didn't see them in the picture17600:14:22,420 --> 00:14:26,860So I'm not really sure but he built barns and kept chickens and grew vegetables and everything17700:14:26,860 --> 00:14:32,220He was actually paid by the next keeper one thousand one hundred dollars for the buildings. He built as17800:14:33,020 --> 00:14:35,020as keeper so it was like17900:14:35,420 --> 00:14:40,380Was he gonna tear them down or maybe the other the new keeper was18000:14:40,900 --> 00:14:45,460Grateful and so he paid him like I'm paying for extra buildings18100:14:45,460 --> 00:14:46,460Sounds like a lot of money18200:14:46,460 --> 00:14:51,020Yeah, I know eleven hundred dollars in like the mid 1800s is18300:14:51,660 --> 00:14:55,660It's weird for an individual to buy a lot of money18400:14:55,660 --> 00:14:59,220An individual with the keeper to take responsibility and build these things18500:14:59,260 --> 00:15:04,580Yeah, when it's a government job, right? Yeah, but I mean government property. I18600:15:05,140 --> 00:15:11,020Feel like keepers aren't often. Well, gosh, I don't know. I'm gonna say it's not like they're fired often, but they are18700:15:11,660 --> 00:15:18,000You know placed somewhere else often and later in history, you know talking about some of the readings18800:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,000I did for the West Coast Lighthouse Board18900:15:20,000 --> 00:15:25,040Lighthouse establishment, I guess the board was writing some of those letters19000:15:25,040 --> 00:15:29,680Yeah, and how they were, you know under inspection and it was like a military19100:15:30,600 --> 00:15:34,960Placement you you shall sell the ox for at least $100 and send19200:15:36,800 --> 00:15:40,120Handling yeah, no, like, you know do whatever you want to do, you know19300:15:40,120 --> 00:15:45,600Well, if it benefited them although they didn't get the money so that's I'm saying19400:15:45,600 --> 00:15:52,000It's government property, but you're building your own barn on it and then it's sold to another man who's taking the job19500:15:52,000 --> 00:15:58,680I don't know. Yeah, I never I think about that. There's probably more to it. Yeah, I bet secrets secrets19600:15:59,760 --> 00:16:01,760He returned to farming in19700:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,2801836 but returned three years later to be the first keeper of19800:16:06,480 --> 00:16:12,000Nosset light. Oh nice. Yeah when it was still three sisters. Very cool done them19900:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,040Is it done them? I don't know20000:16:15,040 --> 00:16:22,000There's Jeff Dunham is the comedian it's pronounced Dunham. I'm pretty sure you could be right then20100:16:22,000 --> 00:16:26,000It's like Eastham and Chatham and all these towns20200:16:26,000 --> 00:16:32,000I know but like I said one of them was not pronounced that way East Ham or maybe20300:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000Chatham20400:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,000We'll find out I know20500:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,000I'm excited20600:16:38,000 --> 00:16:44,0001857 the light gained a fourth order for now lens and it was actually after20700:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,000It's a little picture of it still in action today20800:16:48,000 --> 00:16:52,000It was after some guy who was notorious for20900:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,000crapping on21000:16:55,000 --> 00:17:01,000Inspection reports. He just came and was just like everything sucks here. This this is you know, he was really picky21100:17:01,000 --> 00:17:07,000Yeah, he came and said a lot of nice things about the lighthouse, but then I didn't make any notes about this21200:17:07,000 --> 00:17:13,000I don't know why I didn't he said the purpose of the lighthouse was like obsolete. It was like, why do we have this?21300:17:13,000 --> 00:17:18,000He and he never said to take it out of commission, but he was like I would recommend21400:17:19,000 --> 00:17:23,000moving it from ten reflectors to one like21500:17:23,000 --> 00:17:28,000He was like this thing. I know it looks great, but I don't know why it's here21600:17:28,000 --> 00:17:34,000So that's weird. Yeah, and then they gave it a fourth order lens. So they upped it in candle power21700:17:34,000 --> 00:17:41,000I don't do was there any way that because I haven't read this I have to ask. Yeah, you might have read it like21800:17:42,000 --> 00:17:48,000Interpreted it to where he's saying the ten reflectors is not necessary21900:17:48,000 --> 00:17:54,000It needs to be one of larger magnitude or no see he was saying there was a new lighthouse that was built nearby22000:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,000You couldn't really see this light until you had gotten a certain point22100:17:58,000 --> 00:18:02,000I know around the land and he was just basically saying I22200:18:02,000 --> 00:18:07,000Don't know why we have this and then after that it was interpreted for me. It was kind of like22300:18:07,000 --> 00:18:13,000Instead of suggesting that they get rid of the light they say he said we should lower the candle power22400:18:13,000 --> 00:18:18,000If you're gonna keep it and then someone said nah, I said actually22500:18:18,000 --> 00:18:22,000Increase it more power double it and give it to the next guy22600:18:22,000 --> 00:18:28,000So that's how we ended up with our fourth order lens. I complain still working today22700:18:28,000 --> 00:18:33,000So keeper Dunham was one of the like very few head keepers22800:18:34,000 --> 00:18:39,000That were at this lighthouse and that was because like I mentioned it had very fertile soil. So it was great for22900:18:40,000 --> 00:18:47,000Home live. I mean people brought their families here and then wanted to settle down like they weren't looking to go somewhere else23000:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,000This was like a great place to have a family. Yeah23100:18:50,000 --> 00:18:54,000grow crops and have livestock and everything I read that the23200:18:54,000 --> 00:19:01,000The people who worked on the lighthouse tenders hated this station because there was nowhere to dock a lighthouse tender23300:19:01,000 --> 00:19:09,000And so they'd have to pull up somewhere and like carry all the supplies that were to be delivered to the lighthouse from down below23400:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,000I mean surrounded by this very strange sloping cliff23500:19:12,000 --> 00:19:19,000Yeah, but what are you gonna how you gonna build a stair or a ramp into that cliff? Yeah, and then a dock at the bottom23600:19:19,000 --> 00:19:26,000Yeah, and normal cliffs they wouldn't use a crane or whatever. It's called Derek. Yeah to pull stuff up and they can't do that23700:19:26,000 --> 00:19:33,000Cuz it's so sloped you'd be dragging. I feel like they should have built one of those like the tramways that we talked about in split rock23800:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,000Yeah23900:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,000It's still be24000:19:36,000 --> 00:19:42,000It's still be costly and difficult even if you're talking about a pier way like a pier way24100:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,000Yeah, a pier or so about a boat is gonna dock. Oh my gosh24200:19:45,000 --> 00:19:49,000My English is broken. You know have your coffee my back is gonna dock24300:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,000But you have to have those peers go into the24400:19:55,000 --> 00:20:01,000Sea floor and if that rock keeps going. Yeah, good luck. Yeah, that's funny though lighthouse tenders24500:20:01,000 --> 00:20:05,000I don't know that we've talked a lot about lighthouse tenders having opinions24600:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,000Yeah, it was one of the few times that I've actually seen commentary about it24700:20:08,000 --> 00:20:14,000It must have been pretty widespread that people are like, oh no, we're delivering to Pemiqua it sucks24800:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,000sucks24900:20:16,000 --> 00:20:22,0001897 a brick engine house was built for a new fog bell which replaced the small one that had to be rung by hand25000:20:22,000 --> 00:20:28,000So it's supposed to be like a night. It was like a steam-powered striking mechanism, but it had to have been25100:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,000Problematic in some way because it was only two years later that they built25200:20:34,000 --> 00:20:40,000The fog bell tower that we have today which was run by weights, which is you know that like white pyramid25300:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000That was at the front. Yeah that housed25400:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,000the25500:20:44,000 --> 00:20:49,000Clockwork the weights that went up and down for the boat and I actually found a picture of it in my main25600:20:49,000 --> 00:20:54,000Lighthouses documentation of their past by Jay Candice Clifford and Mary Lewis Clifford cool25700:20:54,000 --> 00:21:00,000This is what the book that I got from the United States Lighthouse Society. What's the US LHS?25800:21:00,000 --> 00:21:05,000Listen to our last episode episode 45. Thanks. I'll just show you a little picture25900:21:05,000 --> 00:21:09,000They have a diagram that was donated from the US Coast Guard26000:21:09,000 --> 00:21:14,000I think but a picture of how the whole fog bell tower was built26100:21:14,000 --> 00:21:20,000Wow, so there's a wow a hand-drawn sketch plans for a fog bell tower to be built on26200:21:21,000 --> 00:21:27,000Pemaquick Pemaquid Pemaquid point drawings courtesy of US Coast Guard as an engineer26300:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,000I'm very intrigued by this. Isn't it the weirdest setup like26400:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,000It's the bell is outside unprotected. Yes26500:21:35,000 --> 00:21:40,000Which is kind of surprising and then there's but you can't like the sound won't travel unless you have it26600:21:41,000 --> 00:21:45,000It's facing the water. There's a dugout gutter26700:21:46,000 --> 00:21:50,000Called out below the building and then this tower26800:21:50,000 --> 00:21:55,000We've talked about has all this bracing and the weight is on a pulley system26900:21:55,000 --> 00:22:00,000So I assume you pull it up you load it if you will. Yes, and then it would fall wind the mechanism and27000:22:00,000 --> 00:22:06,000I'm missing some component of rotation that would go strike the bell or maybe the bell would move back and forth. Oh27100:22:07,000 --> 00:22:13,000I don't know what it's called the hammer one ball on the inside. I think it was supposed to be a striking. It's that27200:22:14,000 --> 00:22:19,000It's like a mallet. Yeah, but I don't think it shows how the pulley system27300:22:19,000 --> 00:22:24,000It's like a sledge hammer back and hits it. I'd be fascinated. I like mechanical. We should look it up. I think27400:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,000That's probably something we should cover27500:22:27,000 --> 00:22:33,000But yeah, this is really cool image. I think it's that it struck every 10 seconds when it was wound27600:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,000I don't know how often it needed to be wound up, but pretty cool. That is cool27700:22:38,000 --> 00:22:42,000Man the the work that people had to do to do something like that27800:22:42,000 --> 00:22:48,000I know that is wild to me. It would be crazy and like them just building it and be like, all right27900:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,000Here's how you operate it and it's like, okay28000:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,000I can't ask anybody else about this28100:22:53,000 --> 00:22:58,000You know, like you wouldn't be able to call some toll-free number and be like I'm having a problem with my belt tower28200:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,000Send it back to Amazon28300:23:01,000 --> 00:23:07,000So, yeah, that's the house that we see today and I'm going to be talking about it a little bit later as well28400:23:08,000 --> 00:23:15,000Somewhere around this time. They added brick veneer to the inside of the light tower. I don't know what brick veneer is28500:23:16,000 --> 00:23:20,000Well veneer in general is like a case. Oh, yeah28600:23:20,000 --> 00:23:25,000It's a it's a thin layer that covers. Okay, so it's often used to make them look nicer28700:23:25,000 --> 00:23:30,000It's not structural usually okay. It's like teeth veneers veneer teeth28800:23:31,000 --> 00:23:37,000But why would they in veneer teeth are a layer over your teeth? Yeah, that's really an aesthetic28900:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,000Yeah, yeah, so how would they I?29000:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,000Mean you can do like cheap home renovation29100:23:44,000 --> 00:23:51,000Backsplash veneer was it really just like for looking nice or maybe it was deteriorating as a way to see what covered it29200:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,000Yeah, kind of air quotes waterproof it again. I don't know29300:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,000I didn't look too deep into it, but at the same time they also added a cast-iron spiral staircase29400:23:58,000 --> 00:24:04,000So that's pretty cool and these were restored in 2010. They did a big restoration. So this is when29500:24:05,000 --> 00:24:09,000They did the veneer and start no that was sometime around like29600:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,000Almost 1900. Okay, but that that29700:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,000Cast iron is still there. Yeah, that's really cool29800:24:17,000 --> 00:24:24,000That's another thing to learn more about because that's in a lot of lighthouse towers these cast iron stair treads and29900:24:24,000 --> 00:24:30,000Handrails and stuff. Yeah for some reason that's fascinating because I would love to know who built them30000:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,000Like where did you order?30100:24:32,000 --> 00:24:36,000You had to order the stairs from because they're pretty intricate usually they're not very well built30200:24:36,000 --> 00:24:42,000I had to order the stairs from because they're pretty intricate. Usually they're not just like yeah pieces of cast iron30300:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,000They're like they're nice. Yeah. Well remember keep disappointment30400:24:46,000 --> 00:24:53,500The Oriole the ship that wrecked the Oriole had like several lantern rooms and all of the cast iron in it30500:24:53,500 --> 00:24:58,800Oh stair towers and railings and stuff boom just in the ocean and it had come30600:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,120I love Cape disappointments over on the west coast for you30700:25:02,120 --> 00:25:08,600We don't know and I think all of that had come from Boston or somewhere up Northeast. So it had come all the way around30800:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,800Oh, yeah, I'm saying that wrecked30900:25:12,120 --> 00:25:14,500Tragic order all new irons again. Oh31000:25:15,440 --> 00:25:20,160Just had to have been so there's nothing to do about it. It's just awful31100:25:20,480 --> 00:25:26,860So Pimaquod point was one of the first lighthouses in Maine to transition to automatic and this was in31200:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,8801934 so before the Coast Guard even took over31300:25:30,880 --> 00:25:38,120Which is like really early. They don't there's not a light a lighthouse is mentioned that go fully automatic interesting31400:25:38,120 --> 00:25:44,420Yeah, that's really good. Yeah, and it was around this time also that the light was switched to a flashing white and I couldn't find the31500:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,640exact date for that unless I'm misinterpreting31600:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,280the US LHS light list I think31700:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,860Yeah, I don't know. I'm pretty sure it was around the same time31800:25:54,860 --> 00:26:02,680Okay, then it went flashing a few years after that actually a year after the Coast Guard took over Bristol residents voted to purchase the station31900:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,080besides the light which remained with the Coast Guard and32000:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,600paid the government32100:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,320$1,639 over a period of four years that they could own it and32200:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,840Then it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in32300:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,4801985 and I actually I found a picture of the32400:26:19,480 --> 00:26:24,040The application for that and it's just a lot simpler than I32500:26:24,760 --> 00:26:29,880Expected it to be for some reason, you know, there's not really much to it. Yeah, it's a nice little form. Yeah, I32600:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,400It's stamped received February 2nd or 22nd32700:26:34,440 --> 00:26:40,920Yeah, and then April 16th was when it was entered as a national as I like a historic places protection thing32800:26:40,920 --> 00:26:46,560I thought about this. I don't mean to take anything away from Pemmaquid Pemmaquid. Yeah, that sounds wrong to me32900:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,840I'm reading it on screen. I look it up and it says Pemmaquid33000:26:49,840 --> 00:26:56,960So not taking anything away from Pemmaquid point, but there are there's gonna be so many dang places including lighthouses33100:26:57,480 --> 00:27:01,040on the National Register of Historic Places and33200:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,840I did wonder how that how that works and what it means for protection and for33300:27:06,360 --> 00:27:09,440Yeah, renovation and things because every lighthouse that we33400:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,640We mentioned it. This is a national historic place like wow33500:27:13,640 --> 00:27:18,320Just like and this is when it was added, you know, it's like it's sort of a gift33600:27:18,320 --> 00:27:23,000It is yeah lighthouses to be added like to go a step further than that is whenever you get33700:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,560Gosh, what is it called like preservation?33800:27:27,760 --> 00:27:33,640It's a landmark something national historic landmark. Okay, that's like the special one33900:27:34,160 --> 00:27:38,640When most places are already in ash like registered places34000:27:38,640 --> 00:27:44,360Yes, then it goes a step further by being a national historic landmark. I mean, I think that's the one where34100:27:45,360 --> 00:27:47,760You're like one of the big dogs. Hmm34200:27:48,600 --> 00:27:55,760Interesting. Anyway, that is cool. The tower itself was licensed to the American Lighthouse Foundation in34300:27:56,360 --> 00:28:03,6802000 so the Coast Guard licensed it to this foundation after the 2000 was like some kind of it's like main lighthouse34400:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,680Law or something that was passed34500:28:06,680 --> 00:28:11,200I can't remember exactly what it was, but they had a couple of restorations over the years in34600:28:11,960 --> 00:28:16,8402007 for the exterior and 2010 for some of the internal components, which I talked about earlier34700:28:17,960 --> 00:28:24,040But in 2007 they found a hidden window while we doing the exterior and I couldn't find a picture online34800:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,200But they said it was wild well documented34900:28:26,200 --> 00:28:31,880They said the Masons noticed the granite work closing the window was of poorer quality than the original work35000:28:31,880 --> 00:28:37,840Meaning that it was done later for some unknown reason so they just recovered it back up whenever they did the restoration35100:28:38,240 --> 00:28:39,320the35200:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,880Uncovered the window uncovered it found it and then recovered it35300:28:44,080 --> 00:28:50,680Like we're doing all the work they're like well, they're like we don't there's probably good reason for this bad vibes35400:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,560It's a haunted window35500:28:53,560 --> 00:28:59,040So covered it back up and I couldn't find a photo. I'm sure if I sent some emails, I'd be able to hunt one down35600:28:59,040 --> 00:29:04,640I wonder if it's like a little port window or something. I don't know it didn't specify if it was35700:29:05,160 --> 00:29:10,520Identical to other windows and like you know a lot of times they covered up windows that were35800:29:11,000 --> 00:29:15,440Sea-facing that would get hit with like waves and bad weather and would break all the time35900:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,320So then they would just be like, okay, just cut we don't need it. Just cover it up. Yeah36000:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,320So maybe it was something like that36100:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,600Interesting, I think they said it was an east-facing east-facing window36200:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,200So a Pemacood points still running today white flash every summer36300:29:27,200 --> 00:29:32,680points still running today white flash every six seconds from their fourth order lens still up there and36400:29:33,400 --> 00:29:40,760It's featured on the state quarter. No way. Yeah main quarter has Pemacood point on it. Wow, that's cool36500:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,040Isn't that awesome? I've never seen that before. I know now36600:29:44,040 --> 00:29:49,560I really want one and I feel like I've seen it before but before I became lighthouse Correza36700:29:50,240 --> 00:29:54,800If I wouldn't really pay attention, I'm gonna be looking through all my quarters now trying to find Pemacood36800:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,120Well, they did a good job actually. Yeah, it looks great. It looks36900:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,640very real37000:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,360Realistic and accurate the fence is right. Of course37100:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,680They always do a really good job on the quarters with detail. I didn't know that37200:30:07,680 --> 00:30:13,040Yeah, if you look at a quarter, they're always like even the eagle on like the normal one is really nice37300:30:13,040 --> 00:30:18,640Well, but I mean this is not only is this highly featured, but it's accurate. Look at the stones variations. Oh37400:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,200They're missing the37500:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,120pyramid column on the fog house I37600:30:27,960 --> 00:30:29,960Can't believe it absolutely37700:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,640Someone had to fight to the death to get that picket fence, right?37800:30:33,640 --> 00:30:38,440And then the stone work they had to like I cannot believe they put the quarter making mint37900:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,400Little evergreen tree38000:30:46,400 --> 00:30:51,800Yeah, they went all out but that's really neat and birds and everything 1820 pretty cool38100:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,200I gotta keep my eye out now for one of those quarters38200:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,840So back to the reason why I kept seeing this lighthouse all over my feet38300:30:58,840 --> 00:31:03,400This is like another current event thing January 10th of this year 202438400:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,240For lighthouses, yeah, maybe a little38500:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,040A huge storm hit the coast of Maine. I don't know if you heard anything about it38600:31:12,040 --> 00:31:18,400I think just because I follow a lot of lighthouses is on Instagram. I saw a bunch of it38700:31:19,040 --> 00:31:25,120But there's 79 mile-per-hour winds and a storm surge of up to five feet on top of an already historically high38800:31:25,720 --> 00:31:32,640high tide so it was like a new moon or something and they're like, oh we have got really really38900:31:34,040 --> 00:31:39,680Strange high tides and then they found out there was gonna be a big storm hitting and they're like, oh boy39000:31:39,680 --> 00:31:43,560There's gonna be some serious flooding. Yeah, I'll show you on this graph, but39100:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,800They were supposed to be flooding even with just the high tide39200:31:48,200 --> 00:31:53,800Like the tide was so high that it was gonna be flooding and then you add a five foot storm surge and suddenly everything is flooded39300:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,480Five feet is a lot of water elevation. Yeah, here's a picture39400:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,000shows39500:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,760Areas of minor flooding moderate and major flooding the blue is what they predicted39600:32:03,760 --> 00:32:08,000This high tide was going to be so you can see some of them are already in minor flooding area39700:32:08,000 --> 00:32:15,360Then the red is where they had after the storm. So it was really really bad news for oh, these are days39800:32:15,360 --> 00:32:16,880Oh, no39900:32:16,880 --> 00:32:18,080because40000:32:18,080 --> 00:32:24,520After that there was a storm January 10th January 13th a storm of very similar intensity hit40100:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,520Back to back like right after that they got two storms40200:32:27,520 --> 00:32:34,000So a lot of lighthouses took damage and they did this whole I might have okay in on that40300:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,240It was a huge deal they did I mean there's still so much work and cleanup and40400:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,160Restorations to be done because of these back back storms40500:32:42,160 --> 00:32:48,840But awful because of the combination of high winds and the crazy tide that there was these ginormous waves hitting40600:32:49,360 --> 00:32:56,040Areas that weren't well equipped for getting hit with waves because normally the water is not up that high and that included a Pimaquid40700:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,360point lighthouse which40800:32:58,360 --> 00:33:04,200Is far up enough that maybe they don't get as much of this like crazy weather when there are storms40900:33:04,680 --> 00:33:09,640So the tower itself were made unscathed, but the fogbell house was severely damaged. I got a picture41000:33:09,640 --> 00:33:15,880It's like half of its walls are missing. Oh my gosh. No, isn't that awful? That's terrible41100:33:15,880 --> 00:33:19,800I bet there's rocks and all sorts shingles torn up. They have really41200:33:20,360 --> 00:33:26,440They have pictures of from the back. You can see just the sunlight coming through. It's really wild. That's crazy41300:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,440There's two of the four walls are gone41400:33:29,080 --> 00:33:35,080You can even see damage to the keepers house in the back parts of the slating side like the siding is gone41500:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,440That is epic. Yeah, it's took some serious damage41600:33:38,440 --> 00:33:44,040Luckily the bell the one that was forged in 1840s was not damaged41700:33:44,040 --> 00:33:50,120You can see where it would be hanging up at the front of the lighthouse or the yeah fog tower wasn't damaged because they41800:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,360Removed it because the wood was rotting. Okay, so they removed it early41900:33:54,360 --> 00:34:00,040In the year in August I think and so it didn't it wasn't like a subject of damage for the storm42000:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,960Is that the bell there inside? That's I think either a replica or42100:34:04,920 --> 00:34:11,720I assume today. This is used for an exhibit. Yeah, you can go in and look at it. I mean not currently. Yeah, man42200:34:11,720 --> 00:34:15,720That sucks. Yeah, so this was January 10th when this happened and they knew three days later42300:34:15,720 --> 00:34:18,440They were gonna get another storm. So they were like we're going to be42400:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,160hauling ass trying to get this42500:34:21,160 --> 00:34:26,440Protected so that it's like not just open getting hit with the same kind of storm42600:34:27,320 --> 00:34:32,040It's still there after the 13th storm. So someone in a coat there. Oh, yeah42700:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,920Is it a little bit of scale? They sent a lot of people out. Yeah a lot of assessments42800:34:37,640 --> 00:34:38,680I actually have a picture of it42900:34:38,680 --> 00:34:44,840They did a damage assessment by helicopter because of a lot of lighthouses in Maine are like out on islands or like on43000:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,280Points and stuff that are not very accessible. So they sent43100:34:48,280 --> 00:34:53,160And I have the track of the helicopter went to each lighthouse and like circled it taking43200:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,000Photos and like figuring out how extensive the damage was43300:34:57,880 --> 00:35:02,920So they can kind of get a plan for how they're going to start restoring all of the lighthouses. It is so it's like43400:35:03,560 --> 00:35:09,72023 lighthouses they checked on and i'm pretty sure nearly all of them have taken damage43500:35:10,360 --> 00:35:15,880Some some degree or another and the us lhs made a video along with the american lighthouse43600:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,640Foundation, I think they teamed up and made a video that was just kind of showing like43700:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,440We need your help things43800:35:23,080 --> 00:35:28,520Like this was really bad for lighthouses and like we're losing history. Yeah, we have to protect it43900:35:28,520 --> 00:35:30,040We need to raise money44000:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,960So, um, I have the link to that video and i'm gonna put it in the show notes44100:35:33,960 --> 00:35:38,040Okay, you and I can watch it if you want to but yeah, it's really sad lighthouses44200:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,000Man in the state that we're in they all they already need support just like44300:35:43,000 --> 00:35:49,640Maintain let alone, you know facing storms and events like this. Yeah, that is uh, really unfortunate44400:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,240It's awful and there's nothing you can really do about it. I mean, it's not44500:35:53,800 --> 00:35:58,840Because of negligence or anything. It's just being so close to the water. Sometimes freak44600:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,000storms happen and44700:36:01,000 --> 00:36:06,200Well, it's the it's in some way. It's a sense of respect for lighthouses and yeah in the historical role44800:36:06,680 --> 00:36:07,960because44900:36:07,960 --> 00:36:09,960Maybe not a storm like that, but45000:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,480Maybe you know you'd lose a couple ships of people45100:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,120To45200:36:16,120 --> 00:36:21,880Accidents if they didn't know if they didn't have use of a lighthouse. Yeah throughout, you know all of history45300:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,880That's a very broad statement45400:36:24,440 --> 00:36:29,720Yeah, they're they're not in very protected places usually. Yeah, so this is the helicopter45500:36:29,720 --> 00:36:33,880Yeah, this is a picture of the helicopter route and um, pemicoid point is on there45600:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,600But there's all I mean all over the place45700:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,120Especially all these that are really far out and if they didn't do this45800:36:40,280 --> 00:36:44,200You would only hear from word of mouth from the keepers or whoever goes out there to check45900:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,040What was the damage that was done to this light all the way out?46000:36:48,040 --> 00:36:54,280You know mount desert rock like what happened out there. I don't know. We're gonna have to go check so it went to 23 lights46100:36:55,080 --> 00:36:56,580total distance of46200:36:56,580 --> 00:36:58,580242.58 miles46300:36:59,080 --> 00:37:04,040That's crazy. That's cool. They did that watch the video after this that shows all the lights46400:37:04,040 --> 00:37:10,200Watch the video after this that shows all the pictures taken of I think it's like a three and a half minute video46500:37:10,200 --> 00:37:15,080Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's how I knew about pemicoid point and why I decided to cover it's because really46600:37:15,640 --> 00:37:20,600This it didn't number on main lighthouses this storm the series of storms46700:37:20,600 --> 00:37:24,480So they're pretty desperate to start raising money46800:37:24,480 --> 00:37:30,520I think they're doing an official disaster assessment to see like what the damage is besides lighthouses46900:37:30,520 --> 00:37:35,640You know like the government's doing a disaster assessment so then we can find out more about what it's gonna take to47000:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,400Fix everything and rebuild because I know even in some places there's I mean47100:37:39,400 --> 00:37:45,560There's a lot of history that was lost in this storm like boathouses historical boathouses and like some fishing shacks47200:37:45,560 --> 00:37:51,000I heard there was only three left in this town and there used to be a bunch but like one by one they've just been47300:37:51,480 --> 00:37:56,200Knocked out in this storm took out all three so they didn't have no more of these fish fishing shacks that were47400:37:56,200 --> 00:38:02,680Like they said there was a lot of revenue brought to the city because people would get married here and take pictures in front of them47500:38:02,680 --> 00:38:07,280Like for their wedding party and stuff. I'm like, oh my god, and there's nothing you can do to take it back47600:38:07,280 --> 00:38:12,240You just it's like okay. I guess that's over. Let's see rebuild them, but it's not the same47700:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,760Yeah, there's something different about that preservation versus47800:38:16,760 --> 00:38:23,720Replica. Yeah, it's a sad note, but that's pemicoid point lighthouse. Yeah. Well, I'm glad it's still there and yes that is47900:38:23,720 --> 00:38:28,080Yeah, the lighthouse itself. Sorry. No, you're good. I'm gonna talk now48000:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,320The lighthouse itself in that photo48100:38:32,040 --> 00:38:36,400Didn't look too damaged no compared to the fog stayed stays48200:38:37,240 --> 00:38:43,080Yeah, I think most of the damage that they wrote they found and recorded were not to lighthouse towers48300:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,120There's some but not like it's no towers48400:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,200Unsalvageable or anything no legs missing. Yeah48500:38:49,200 --> 00:38:53,000They've seen worse. Well the Atlantic Ocean. It's one of those big ones48600:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,840One of the big ones. Things like this happen. Well, cool good coverage. Yeah, thank you48700:38:57,840 --> 00:39:02,200I know our two of our close friends who may be on this podcast at some point48800:39:03,040 --> 00:39:07,680Visited Maine and oh Alan talked to me about going up there48900:39:07,680 --> 00:39:12,880He really liked it and you and I looked at the Acadia National Park recently when I was looking around49000:39:12,880 --> 00:39:17,760Yeah, it looks beautiful that whole area. I would love to go to Maine. That'd be so much fun49100:39:17,760 --> 00:39:24,280Yep, let's uh, I'll probably talk about it in our lighthouse tourism, which may or may not be an upcoming episode49200:39:24,920 --> 00:39:29,440Excellent. I'm very excited. I guess I don't have anything to add on top of that. We're49300:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,920Check out of our check out our Instagram. We got some cool pictures on there49400:39:33,920 --> 00:39:40,320We got a YouTube where you can watch as we talk through everything in the episode visually, which is kind of nice49500:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,320I don't know. You got anything dad? No49600:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,440YouTube is my my thing. I don't know49700:39:45,440 --> 00:39:51,880YouTube is my my thing. I spend most my time on and I really appreciate everybody that's checking us out there49800:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,000Yeah, that's all I ask it. Just check it out49900:39:54,000 --> 00:39:58,040Yeah, we we put a lot of hours into this show. So I appreciate it50000:39:58,040 --> 00:40:01,440and then the other thing I I do is linkedin and50100:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,640So far I haven't really done anything with LinkedIn50200:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,240But you know someone reached out to us recently on YouTube50300:40:09,240 --> 00:40:16,920They made a comment and said hey, you know, I was actually a part of I'm gonna misquote her but forgive me50400:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,120She was a part of she's the brother light50500:40:19,120 --> 00:40:24,480Yeah, she's a keeper at East brother light station during the kovat times and they lost power for50600:40:25,440 --> 00:40:31,640Months. Yeah. Yeah, she had to deal with some stuff. So she I asked that she reach out to our email to talk to us50700:40:32,520 --> 00:40:38,040But I also looked her up on LinkedIn and it's fun because it's like that's my idea with LinkedIn50800:40:38,040 --> 00:40:43,120Is that it's gonna be a way that we can be professional in approaching people in the lighthouse community50900:40:43,640 --> 00:40:47,040rather than you know me on Facebook or via51000:40:47,640 --> 00:40:52,760Email just a random guy on an email. I can say well, this is what we do. Here's our little profile and51100:40:53,600 --> 00:40:59,920Either way, so it's been fun to to have that and there's about 300 people that are following us on LinkedIn51200:41:00,160 --> 00:41:06,480And aside from the professional stuff, it's always nice whenever listeners just message us on Instagram like send us a DM51300:41:06,480 --> 00:41:13,440For anything at all or you can send us an email the lighthouse lowdown at gmail.com or you can go to our website51400:41:13,440 --> 00:41:19,200There's a way for you to leave notes there that'll go straight to our emails or you can leave a voicemail, which is always fun51500:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,200We've gotten a couple of those now51600:41:21,480 --> 00:41:27,800Yeah, we love to get messages from people we get a lot of fun stuff and hate since we're going to Cape Cod51700:41:27,800 --> 00:41:36,600If you have any suggestions for places we could go look, please do let us know. I'm kind of I'm overrunning our trip with stamps51800:41:37,080 --> 00:41:42,440US LHS passport stamps. We'll talk about it. I think I think I'm pretty sure pretty certain51900:41:42,440 --> 00:41:48,280We're I'm gonna cover lighthouse tourism as an episode. You think we'll cover how we're preparing for our Cape Cod trip52000:41:48,440 --> 00:41:55,860Yeah, and we'll probably ask for some more input at that time. Yeah, so so we're super excited. We can't wait to go52100:41:55,860 --> 00:42:00,740Yeah, thanks for joining. We hope everyone had a great time and come back to us again soon