Episode 71 - Minot's Ledge Lighthouse

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Hi everybody, I'm Emily and I'm Vince and this is the lighthouse lowdown

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We're doing a nighttime recording we sure are and it's a

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Tuesday night. Yeah, Tuesday night. We got a winter storm coming tomorrow. I've got strep throat. So

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We're gonna be powering through. It's great. We're having fun many different aspects of our lives lucky to be here

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That is true. We are lucky to be here could be

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somewhere else

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We have a good episode today, it's a listener lighthouse

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So nice applaud our listeners for continuing to send lighthouses so that we can cover them

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Because those are always the most fun that we know that somebody's going to be like, oh my gosh. Yes

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This is the lighthouse I asked and then they can listen and be you know, just slightly disappointed by the delivery in the content

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Was this from one listener or is it a repeat? This is one listener. Nice

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Shout out but first I'll go into our history buoy. This is our where first

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incorrect pronunciation will come from most likely because

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How do you look up how a last name is pronounced from?

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Well, there's a hundred and thirty years old history. I don't know like I was gonna say there's fanatics, but they don't I'm not very smart with those

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Yeah, so it's just

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Ma my hand Mahan. How do you spell it? M H M A H A N

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Mahan

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What part of the world?

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America Mahan Mahan

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Is it is the age capitalized the first name is Frederick the age is not capitalized Frederick man man

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on

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Man, it's gonna go with Mahan Frederick M. I'm sure it's wrong. So just live with it. But anyway, it's a style of for Nellis the Mahan

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System, so very cool. I'm sure it's out there, but I had a hard time even finding any information on this subject

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Which was interestingly even the US LHS website. I had to do some digging and I just found like one

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Newspaper article clipping about how this happened, but it's a huge part of the lighthouse recovering today. So

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I'm going into it. Okay, so Mahan system for Nellens

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So in the late 1800s it became and we talked about this the other day

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It became a problem that all the lighthouse light characteristics were starting to be the same. Yeah, everybody was like

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the same yeah, everybody had a fixed white light so

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You know if you were disoriented and all of a sudden you see a solid white light offshore

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You have no idea which lighthouse it could possibly be referencing. Yeah, you need more information

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so captain Frederick a ma on

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Mahan yes

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Created the design for for Nellens is that flash numbers as their characteristics and so basically they had

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Little cropped flash panel. So, you know usually like the bulls-eye of a for Nellens

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It's like this little circle in the middle and it goes bigger and bigger rings around it

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And so this one is like if you had one of those but you cut it in the middle like

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Vertically or like slightly off to the side or like yeah, and I'll show a picture and a video

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So if anyone's interested in that you can go to our our YouTube and we'll have this posted

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But so as the lens rotated you would see really quick flashes and they would group

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the flashes so that it would be like

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Four quick flashes and a space and then like one of these examples five quick flashes. So it was the four or five lens

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cool, so like

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Nothing really changes the light would remain the same and everything but the for Nellens itself produces a flash pattern

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That's like different from any other lighthouse. You know exactly which one you're looking at and it's blocked off light and it's in series

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that are timed with a mechanism not blocked off but not

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punchy like not

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Flashes. Yeah, it's like it's not a focused beams. So it's kind of diffused. So I'll show you the picture

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That is cool. So here you can just see facing us is the diffused area

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So it's like it's still lit and you would still see it as like a light

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Yeah, but the other side is where we have these these tight

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really skinny

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What are they called panels?

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And that's where you get your flashes from and you can tell in the reflection on the wall that there are these little bulls eyes

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That are cut off beautiful. That's a really pretty

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photo so this the actual lens he had two lenses made and they were in at display at the Colombian

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Exposition in 1893 and moved to their test lighthouses in 1894 where they remained

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but because of how expensive it was to get custom for Nell lenses that were so particular and

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You know like the panels are all slightly different. So it was just so expensive that they didn't

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Implement this idea anywhere else, even though it was so effective that both test lighthouses kept the for Nell ins for the rest of their

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Their lives. It's really interesting. It's a good idea. Yeah, so Mahan maintained that quote by this method

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The identity of the lighthouse would be absolute

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End quote and so he created to the first one was a first order that flashed four or five

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So that's the one that I'm gonna show a video of okay four quick flashes three seconds of darkness and then five quick flashes

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and then 16 seconds of darkness, which is

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like in this example the entire backside of the lens is

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Technically the darkness area, but it's not blocked off

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It's just just fused a light and that timing is just based on the spinning of the lens

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Yeah, and each panel coming in and out of a person's reference. Oh, yeah a perfect

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Yeah, and that these were both on mercury floats

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So nice, I know they were with the times and the other one was a second order that flashed one for three and

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And so each group of flashes was separated by three seconds of darkness with two seconds between each flash

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Followed by 15 seconds of darkness

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Nice, I'll show this video and darkness meaning a blacked-off panel altogether. No, it means this diffused area

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The darkness is just like you're not getting that

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flash of light in your corneas

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Okay, this video is from is one that somebody took on Facebook as it comes back around you can see those

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Crapped flash panels and also on like the ceiling of this video

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You can see how a lot of the light on the diffused area is lost upwards and then the focused ones have this really tight

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Prisms around there so they don't lose any light

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Yes, you see you one two three four and then there's a change in angle of the Fresnel lens

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And so you don't technically have a block off there, but it takes a little bit longer

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To for it to show on that next panel because the angle of the corner is steeper

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It's split one way or the other. Yeah, is that that's intentional to build the timing

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Yeah, so it's like so you get an obvious group of four and then a slight pause and then a group of five

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So because it's it's radial it's around a point

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there is a a

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Difference probably in timing so the number of seconds is probably different depending on how far you are away

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Between the flashes. Yeah, probably

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Fan if you're closer to the center versus close to the edge

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Yeah, I think science

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Yeah, that was my

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History buoy we are going to cover the lighthouse that received the one four three lens

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I care which is

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Minutes ledge lighthouse what's twenty minutes ledge?

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It's spelled this whole time. I was researching. I'm gonna try really hard not to do this

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It's just like body island where I'm like Bodhi

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Yeah

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And then you find out like at the end of your research or even after you'd already done the episode that the pronunciation is not

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The way that it looks it's like this one. I would say minnow because it's M. I in O T

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Yes, I'm like minnows light, but it's um mine. It's

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Allegedly

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Maybe I'm wrong, but every video I've watched they say mine

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It's and that includes Jeremy a video that Jeremy made so sometimes things come to the US

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And they're kind of renamed based on our pronunciation. Yeah, that's true

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Jackie Minow is a

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Dark red rose for example. Oh my gosh. Am I NRT? Yeah

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Cute

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Didn't know that you go that French. Yes

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Okay, so like I said, this is going to be our listener lighthouse

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So thank you to Megan our listener Megan who sent this in from New Zealand

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She also said by the way, we have a lot of cool lighthouses, too

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So we'll have to definitely look at New Zealand and I saw that we actually get around

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Like eight listens per episode from New Zealand. There's people out there. Let's go

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You live we have to get that on our radar for sure because I'm honest. I don't even know where it is

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It's very cool. Geography is not my forte awesome part of the world. It's far from here. Yeah for sure

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Just like about everything else

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So we're doing a little Valentine's Day themed episode

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So I know this is coming out a couple days after Valentine's Day

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But you know, you can just pretend that it's in the moment

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We're going two and a half mile. I

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Forgot to put in some slides, but whatever you can look it up on maps. I

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Thought I was prepared for this but I suppose I'm not two and a half miles out into Massachusetts Bay

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Which is inches slightly south of Boston. So originally I had a screenshot that showed

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In their geography, but yeah, we drove past it, but it's you know, two and a half miles out

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So you'd have to work really hard to see it out there. You'd have to squint. We would not have

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Probably been looking out into the sea for a lighthouse

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The problem that introduced this lighthouse was a almost invisible outcropping of rocks out in

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Massachusetts Bay

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Oh, no, and these rocks had picked off sailors for centuries and the first recorded ship crashed in 19. Oh, sorry

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1695 with no survivors. So yeah, that was like super long time ago before I mean

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this this spot was

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16 obviously active, you know Boston harbors, right? Yeah one of the early places to yeah get busy

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Still like so noticed very early on which didn't he didn't get a lighthouse for a long time. Anyway

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Do you know that story that shipwreck?

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Because that's curious no survivors, you know, yeah, so

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Theoretically whoever was expecting the ship to arrive was the one who figured it had crashed

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Mm-hmm. So like did they find the ship? How do they how do they know there's no survivors?

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I don't know people but they weren't alive

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Yeah, maybe it's like half the ship or something like it was so shallow that maybe it just grounded

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But then like everybody died

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Never know two and a half miles out. It's pretty far when it's you know, 1600s too far to swim

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But anyway before this

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Native Americans would paddle out and offer dishes ornaments and beads to appease hobo mock

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Which was an evil spirit they believed plague to the waters and that's why there were so many deaths, but it was this ledge

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Two things can be true it could have been

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Yeah, you're hobo mock hobo mock and this ledge. Yeah, that's true could have been working in tandem

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So a prominent Boston merchant George, Minot

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No, no minute minute see I'm having to get used to it minute minute

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Mine it yeah mine it that's what it is

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But maybe he went by minnow, but we over time it's just turned into

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Minutes mine it anyway this guy lost a valuable ship there in

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1754 and

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At that point over 400 people had died on this outcropping of rocks. So

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I'm shocked that it took that long, but after the loss of his ship

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I don't know if he like threw a big fit or if like there was like a bunch of

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Drama surrounding it or something, but it became known as mine. It's lech

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That one heck of a hall I'm wondering yeah, like

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It's a merchant ship. So like so like porcelain bowls, or was it like gold salt salt

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Yeah, cinnamon, you know the stuff they tell you in history classes that were valuable

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And then you only have four examples for the rest of your life

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Yeah, what used to be value start? Yeah

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Your own podcast you're like oh my gosh. I know there's silk trail salt pepper pepper white pepper

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white pepper spices in there

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the spice trail

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My gosh derailed so I WP Lewis we know this guy we had a history boy about his uncle

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Unfortunately, it was a problem child. He wrote his report in

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1842 and said quote a lighthouse on this reef is more required than on any part of the seaboard of New England

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The loss of lives and property here have been annual and will continue to occur until a light is established and the one that's

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dang it

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situate

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Suppressed situate is another lighthouse just south

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like on

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the mainland jeez

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Situate I think is how it's pronounced but I could be wrong didn't look it up going by feelings

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He continues a wreck on this fatal reef is always attended by the destruction of human life

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Owing to its great distance from the shore and the tremendous sea that rolls in over the rocks when the wind is at the eastward

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End quote so obviously he's like I don't know what you guys are doing there needs to be a lighthouse on this rock

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How many more people are gonna die before we end up putting a lighthouse out here?

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So the lighthouse establishment responded by building a strange lighthouse, especially for the time

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perched on 60 foot long iron pilings cemented in just five feet of rock

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The legs would allow the light to be hit by waves and high winds without damaging the actual lighthouse

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Okay, but like it makes it quite precarious, you know, yeah 60 foot legs

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But are they long legs? Yeah

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Was thinking 60 feet laid down

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No five foot weight a fire off rock. I'll show you yeah five feet embedded and

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60 feet out. I think the word precarious makes sense

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They completed it in 1850 for

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$39,000 which at that time was probably crazy and it was lit New Year's Day

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1851 or 1850 camera I think was 1850. So New Year's Day of 1850

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It was lit. So it was completed

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1849 it was bright red the entire thing

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octagonal and

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Definitely not something that would bestow too much confidence in those that were in it

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So I pulled up a photo of a drawing of

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What it looked like I'm sure they posted the newspaper and everything so it's like a

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Like a water tower type construct. Yes. It's like a water tower for a city but in water

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And so you obviously have to get up by a ladder and like all the supplies are you know, kind of the same

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Is that a deck below that's exposed that has supplies on it? Yeah

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Feel like you probably lose those. Hey, would you run down and get some toilet paper?

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Sucks little of a storm. That's just too damn bad

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Yeah, that's I mean there's a boat

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Racked up there. Mm-hmm

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That looks like a lot of work. Yep, and so like automatically this lighthouse was a terrible experiences for keepers because

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Way back and forth like during storms any amount of wind and so much so that the first keepers cat

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Abandoned ship in the middle of a storm because it was so spooked by the water

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So and thus becoming the first casualty of this lighthouse and not the last

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damn

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The cat gave up. I know

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Like just I'm out tapped obviously he didn't know that

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I don't know but imagine jumping off of the surface that high in the air 60 feet

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I would be doing some serious swaying. I mean with legs that skinny. That's crazy the width of a human man

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That's not that much for 60 feet the resonance would be

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awful the first head keeper Isaac Dunham, which sounds like a familiar name to me

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I think we've probably read about him at some other lighthouse

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Dunham Dunham he wrote quote the wind east blowing very hard with an ugly sea

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Which makes the light real like a drunken man

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I hope God will in mercy still the raging sea or we must perish

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God only knows what the end will be end quote. So by October he quit

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When was that he wrote I think that was it is in January and he was the first keeper so he actually lasted

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Good solid

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I'm not lasting the winter out here. Yeah

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So at least yeah, that's true. Yeah winter would be way worse than that

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So in the fall he quit his replacement said in January. There's a lot of quotes today because they're they're good for history

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Quote so precarious is our present state

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That there is a prospect this may never reach you the rods put into the lower section are bent up in fantastic shapes

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Some are torn asunder from their fastenings

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The ice is so massive that there is no appearance of the ladder

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The sea is now running at least 25 feet above the level and each one roars like a heavy peel of thunder

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The northern part of the foundation is split and the lighthouse shakes at least two feet each way

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I feel as seasick as I ever did on board a ship

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Think not that I will ever flinch from my post though

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The waves should gain the mastery for which they are so incessantly striving when I accepted this post

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I closed my ears against the reports of the former keeper treating them as I now find too lightly

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Here I shall remain so long as a vest

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Vestige of the lighthouse remains, but the truth must be told and quote

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So he sent that to a new

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That is epic. I know first of all excellent storytelling. It was so

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He thought about it for a while. Yeah, he was like the peels of thunder may not reach you

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Yeah, the ladder is not still visible

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Twisted in fantastic shapes. Yeah, you monsters be yeah

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Definitely a good thing for a newspaper and he was basically just saying like this is really awful

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And people need to know that this is a story that's been told for a long time

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It's awful and people need to know that this might die. Yeah

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That is actually worrisome that we might not make it

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Swift who was the engineer for this lighthouse?

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Responded and said quote if a lighthouse can be built on the minot

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Which can be made to stand securely in its place for say

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$40,000 would it be wise to expend it?

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$200,000 or more for a stone tower the answer we think is obvious

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If it can be made safe build the pile light if it cannot be made safe build the tower

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Time the great expounder of the truth or the fallacy of the question will decide for or against the minot

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But in as much as the light has outlived nearly three winters. There is some reason to hope that it may survive one or two more

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Whoa, so he's like

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Okay, what the time time tells all right? So let's just see what happens

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Right because it would be a lot more expensive to make a stone lighthouse. So such an engineer. I know oh my god

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This thing's falling apart

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Time will show us that

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One could explore the idea of having done something differently you could have

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But why but here the two if it's still here then why worry?

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What is a man's life worth really? Oh gosh, so

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April following this letter that was in January in the boston daily

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Advertiser a nor'easter hit the lighthouse the head keeper had rode to shore early in the day to get a new boat and

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So his two assistant keepers were left behind

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Which now there's only one boat so they're kind of

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He abandoned them for certain

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But let's be fair in no ways is his fault because nobody knew storms were coming back then

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He was getting a new boat. Yeah, like

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The boat that he went there on was not gonna

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That's what i'm saying

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But I mean same story for the lighthouse

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Maybe it was like really decrepit and they're like, wow, we really need a new boat. So i'm gonna go do that

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I should have done that with the lighthouse. So the two assistant keepers were left. They frantically rang the fog bell

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Uh, and everyone like could hear it from the shore

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But nobody can get out there to help them and it went silent as the lighthouse broke apart and plunged into the sea

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Oh my god

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Got a picture of what was in the newspaper. Oh no

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So

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Awful

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destruction of

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Destruction of mine. It's ledge lighthouse. Oh no

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So a last letter in a bottle washed ashore two days later written by the two men

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Which like put a letter in a bottle and someone actually found it two days later. I think that's crazy

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Uh, they said quote the beaten beacon cannot last any longer

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She's shaking a good three feet each way as I write god bless you all end quote

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And their bodies washed ashore soon after that's

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That is so sad

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however

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I can't help myself if this wasn't a real story

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How epic epic? I know fortunately it's just sad and how tough they are what an awful experience. I know

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So there's actually a a memorial now

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they did a dive and found like what they think are the original like pilings in the

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ground of the you know ocean and so they lowered a

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um memorial like plaque that has their names on it to be in the water, which

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I would disagree with but they also have a marble one. That's at the current

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um

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Like museum site, it's crazy you can read about that. So the whole the whole body of the lighthouse was lost

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Oh, yeah, it was like everyone woke up in the morning and it was just like

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Gone bits like jutting out of the water and that was it

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And those steel beams are what they've supposed they'd found. Yeah, what a way to go. I know

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Also, if you're not watching youtube

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We should include this somewhere on like instagram. Yeah crazy photo really great drawing

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Great like

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Used to be an awesome job to have would be to like draw from from people's

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Accounts of what happened or like your own imagination. You just draw

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Like a depiction of what happened and it's like a whole newspaper size kind of cool. It is cool. Very well done

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After the loss of this lighthouse and our two keepers a light ship was stationed on the reef from 1851 until 1860

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And there's a little drawing of this one

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It's an early light ship. I know

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Mine it's ledge light ship which

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Became something else. I have another chest. It's again. Yeah, it's

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Another vague memory of like us having talked about it

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Turning into another light ship that we actually like did a discussion. Yeah

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so

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So yeah, that was there for solid nine years

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For those of you don't know we have a at least it was an episode right talked about yeah, we did light ships

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I can see the cover. Yeah youtube cover is really cool. Um

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But we talked about light ships

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It's a ship being in place of a lighthouse

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to keep those travelers away when a lighthouse can't be built or in this situation where

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It's kind of a tough situation. Yeah mobile mobile lighthouse and we got to see a light ship. Was it?

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Was the night?

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Was it a Chesapeake?

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In Boston, no

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No, no it was

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The island that's off of Cape Cod

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That we didn't go see Nantucket Nantucket. I'm sorry. No, that's right. I couldn't remember it was

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Docked at Boston Harbor

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And we got shown around it was really cool. Really recommend you go see it if you have time

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It would be hard living but it also like they had like heated internal like it radiators

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Yeah, there was they're efficient. They made really good food

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Their kitchens were extremely spacious and like well stocked so pretty cool

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Okay, Kathleen in 1852 so one year after they put the light ship

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$80,000 was set aside with construction beginning in 1855 to build a new lighthouse

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And what do you think they did the same thing? No

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Luckily, they went with a stone tower and a cool thing about this lighthouse is they used

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The method that we just covered with your episode the dovetail

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Granite blocks that were used in the eddy stone lighthouse. So we see it's trickling over

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Being really successful somewhere else and yeah the construction method trickling over to the u.s. Hundreds of years. Mm-hmm

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Well, and to today the base at least is still there. Yeah crazy 1850 like that's crazy. Yeah

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So this time well the stone tower granite blocks cut to be interlocking and weighing two tons of granite

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The stone tower granite blocks cut to be interlocking and weighing two tons each and I did see that they were um

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The the mortar they did use dowels and the mortar was

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um

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Portland cement. Yes portland cement. Thank you. I would not I knew it started with a p and that's all I had so

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Which was named after

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The quarry in england, I think

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uh

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Where portland stone came from? Yeah

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The same color strong the cement is was the reason it was named that way. Oh crazy

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I thought it was because it was extra tough. I thought he did a bunch of research to make it extra tough

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He did but he didn't call it portland cement. Oh, okay. Gotcha. It was called portland cement because of its color

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Okay, I understand the blocks were placed only at low tide to minimize waves and

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In spite of this many times construction workers were washed away anyway, but nobody died. No nobody died

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No, nobody died. So but like so one of the requirements for working on this construction site is that you had to prove that you could swim

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Oh shit, and they still employed a lifeguard that would just like sit and oversee the entire time

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a lifeguard, it's nice, which is like

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cute unexpected. Yeah, because

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Not that long later. We built the skyscrapers of new york city where many men died. I know

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crazy like this is like

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Nobody died and yet we still employed

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Somebody to help the people who did get washed off

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Let's go safety first think about how common that it had to have been for people to get washed off for them to be like

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We need somebody to go and get them like

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Every time we need somebody

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So they did that two years into construction the ship the new empire

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The new empire wrecked on the rocks taking out everything that had been constructed thus far

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For this lighthouse and damaging the base rock, which means they had to start over with their

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like

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Foundation. Yeah

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dang

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You might mean two years in and just being like, oh no change order the new empire just got to restart

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So they started a new which is nice. They didn't just give up. They just started again like okay

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It's a setback crazy. Let's power through

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They cut the rock for the foundation in the first three years

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And a couple more years dovetailing and doweling the blocks that built the lighthouse

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So this was like this is why the light ship was there for nine years because it took this long to get construction over with

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The granite supported a bronze lantern at almost 100 feet tall

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And the second order for nell lens was lit officially november 15th 1860 with a fixed white light

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And cost ended up being three hundred thousand dollars

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What an what an epic construction project? Yeah for the 1800s

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To see this go up to be a part of it to even just be just know the story years almost a decade like

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Of working on this

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I'm sure it would have been hard to see the end like if you were just a guy

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You kept getting washed off the base every five seconds

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For like why are we even doing this?

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But yeah, I mean it's still there today. No problems at all. Really. It's a testament to this method of building lighthouses

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It's just sitting there absolutely destroyed by waves all the time and it just perseveres

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so

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That so I have a cross section pulled up that shows one

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The expanse of ladder that you have to climb

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Wow to get into this lighthouse and the bottom half is all solid granite

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There's 50 feet of ladder. Yeah, I know

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They really made you work for it i'm sure it was like probably 30 feet you had to climb

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I mean the tower is 100 almost 100 a little less than 100 in any case. That's a lot of ladder

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I know and that's a I mean it makes sense, but that is a subtle

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I mean it makes sense, but that is a solid solid base and you're getting if you think about it

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you're getting onto the ladder in a bobbing boat or a

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Thrashing boat, you know depending on what the weather's like. So yeah the videos are like even today like um

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Ship pilots jumping onto a boat like to grab a ladder. Yes crazy. That's that's still thing like

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Brain words is hard. So in this cutaway, I see a channel so we see all the

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The mar isu marble dowels in between each layer really cool

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solid granite

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um

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There's a tunnel in the center. Is that for the clockwork mechanism? No, and i'm not sure what it was for

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I'm wondering if it was like maybe they put water in there. It was like a

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Long skinny cistern. I'm sure they had a cyst they had to have fresh water stored somewhere. So

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Yeah, I didn't uh make make any notes on it. But anyway

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The lighthouse got a headkeeper and three assistant keepers who had two double dwellings built at

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Cohasset I want to say

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To provide shore accommodations for them and their families along with a storehouse boathouse and blacksmith shop

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So, you know the two and a half miles back to shore

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There was a place i've seen to it referred as cohasset and government island

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I think government island is like you see cohasset on

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google maps, but not government island, but

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Government island is what they call the

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Space where all of this is still located. You can go and like tour it like a museum interesting

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They have the lantern room of this lighthouse there. So

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Though it's still still there. It's just they have a lighthouse, uh, the lantern room replica still there

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or wait

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Maybe it is the original because they did a remodel in like the 80s

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Yeah, where they took the original down? Yeah, where they had a picture of it of the

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Tower without its lantern room

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And so I think they might have moved it and then put in like a new one up there. I don't know bronze top

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We went to a uh place a lot like that

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The old jail and next door was a blacksmith shop

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That was a dark time for vince and I

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Story for another time yeah

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Yeah, or you can go back and listen to our cape cod plug where i'm sure we talk about the disappointment that was that moment

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Um, yeah, oh, I think I have a photo

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Of

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No

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No

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You don't have a photo

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You don't have a photo. I don't I had one and apparently

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I'm telling you I was in my head. I was 100 prepared for this. Maybe we can see it on instagram. That's cool

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Yeah, i'll put it i'll put it on there

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So I guess we'll move on from that

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1894

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The lens was replaced with a different second order for no lens

444
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And it was one of the only two of its kind from the mahan mahan system, of course

445
00:33:48,540 --> 00:33:50,780
Um the other going to cape charles

446
00:33:51,100 --> 00:33:54,300
So if you guys wanted to look up the four or five lens

447
00:33:54,380 --> 00:33:59,180
Which is the one that I had a video of is like all of our examples photos and stuff was from the cape

448
00:33:59,420 --> 00:34:03,980
Charles lighthouse because they have that on display really nicely, but this one's

449
00:34:05,500 --> 00:34:07,900
On display but it's in the lighthouse

450
00:34:08,540 --> 00:34:10,460
Lantern room that's on government island

451
00:34:10,460 --> 00:34:15,820
So, you know the example from cape charles had it's lit and it's rotating and it's like solid walls

452
00:34:15,820 --> 00:34:22,140
So you can see the flash pattern happening. So it's more it's easier to see when you're not there in person. So

453
00:34:22,780 --> 00:34:28,220
Those are the examples we used but mine of fledge got one for three flash pattern because of this

454
00:34:28,460 --> 00:34:32,780
It became known as the I love you lighthouse because one four three

455
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,900
Represents the letters and I love you

456
00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:44,320
Um, the spacing of the flashes has changed slightly over time with the flashes being one and a half seconds long as well as the eclipses

457
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,160
being a

458
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:52,160
One and a half seconds long between flashes. So these are just a couple of the the two clippings that I found

459
00:34:53,100 --> 00:34:54,400
Referencing that this happened

460
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:59,680
So it just kind of talks about how they altered it from fixed to the flashing and like what the background was behind it

461
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:00,720
And everything

462
00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:04,240
So if anybody wanted to look it up, it's a lot of good information in here

463
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:09,920
When you first said numbers, I was thinking like oh, how do they how do they do that with like morse code?

464
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000
Like how would everyone know?

465
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:18,800
No, yeah, it's just the number of flashes these silly goose, but it is. Yeah, it's not really it seems a good idea

466
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:25,520
Yeah, I agree. It's too bad that it was too expensive which kind of is the destroyer of all good ideas

467
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,480
Costs true

468
00:35:29,980 --> 00:35:34,720
1947 the lighthouse was automated and electrified and lost its resident keepers

469
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:40,960
The second-order lens was disassembled and crated in the basement of the tower and subsequently damaged by vandals

470
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:42,960
because who doesn't

471
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,320
climb

472
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:49,280
Into a lighthouse two and a half miles off the shore and smash some glass prisons

473
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,760
You might as well right uncrate and smash some

474
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,960
Prisms, it's I don't get that. It's awful. I get going there

475
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:05,360
You're not supposed to but it'd be awesome. It would be awesome. And then breaking it breaking stuff. I understand that part

476
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:06,960
I don't understand

477
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,960
drives me crazy a

478
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:16,480
Third order was used in the light until 1971 and now it resides inside a replica of the lantern room on government island

479
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,040
What so it doesn't even?

480
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:24,720
So the second one is like not even on display. I surprised myself with my own nose

481
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,520
So, yeah, but that's

482
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:33,760
So the one from the ma ma and mahan system not even

483
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,200
On display you can't even see it that sucks

484
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,240
Stinking vandals. I don't understand. So they where did it go?

485
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:47,920
I mean, I don't probably dispose of if they were all broken. Oh, they damaged it enough. Oh, yeah. Yeah, there's no way they oh man

486
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:50,640
Yeah, they probably broke it to take a piece

487
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,440
rude, yeah

488
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:57,440
Well, they did a lot more than that if they couldn't even like replace a couple of prisms

489
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,240
So much that they don't even have it anymore

490
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:04,800
Somebody please tell me if you know if it's still out there someone's living room, maybe

491
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,520
It's my new theory i'm gonna die on that hill

492
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:12,320
My theory is that there's a bunch of rich people out there and they have

493
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:18,160
Frinelle lenses. Yeah or parts chilling in their living room

494
00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:25,840
Casual mercury floats. Did you see that article? I sent you with the velociraptor. Oh, I think I opened it for like a millisecond

495
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,560
That makes sense

496
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,000
Rude i'm having it. I'm sick. All right

497
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,240
I'm having it. I'm sick. All right

498
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:40,260
Is this the one that where they still had skin attached? No, okay, then I saw a different velociraptor

499
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,440
He had on a durag and a gold chain

500
00:37:58,560 --> 00:37:59,920
All right

501
00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:05,840
Okay, so that's that sucks, but it's the third order one that's on display that you can look at

502
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:12,960
It also has original granite blocks from the light the original keeper's dwellings because this is where their their houses were actually built

503
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,440
The fog bell which was removed from the tower after an unsuccessful robbery attempt

504
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:23,760
And some construction rings that they used to build the light so you can like go and explore cool

505
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:29,680
Um, who tried to steal the fog bell? I don't know and an unsuccessful

506
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:35,440
What like are you gonna turn it in for scrap? Yeah, I don't know like did realize this is so heavy

507
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,800
Yeah, it's like hundreds of pounds. Yeah

508
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:44,320
No way. It's easy to carry. It looks pretty nice. Yeah, it's a nice little display there

509
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:51,200
Yeah, and i'm loving that um cupola bronze vent ball. It's all shiny and nice little lightning rod on top

510
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,640
Mm-hmm, of course a classic. We'd love to see it

511
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,200
what's the uh

512
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:01,520
Are those cables going from the cupola down to the rails edge? I don't know

513
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:05,680
I don't think i've seen that before on a lighthouse design. I kind of like it. I wonder if it was there

514
00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:08,240
Let's do a little back

515
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,200
Oh, yeah, they were there on the original

516
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,920
Could be not in the drawing but like protect the glass could be just an added strength

517
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:19,280
Component that's cool. They look like they're

518
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:23,520
Also bronze. Yeah, maybe if there was like any sort of movement happening

519
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,840
Because the cupola looks heavy compared to like the glass how much glass there is

520
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:32,640
Yeah, maybe if there was any sort of movement it would have like glass, um cracking the glass panels or something

521
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,040
Yeah, although I remember hyland light

522
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,600
That we were at cape cod

523
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:44,800
Large glass is first order room, but there was no fresnel lens in it. So it was fun to walk around. Yeah very open but um

524
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:48,000
It was more structural than I had anticipated

525
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:54,240
Also nine hole golf course pretty cool. Really nice really enjoyable golf course. Yeah played pretty well, too

526
00:39:54,800 --> 00:40:00,560
Lots of opportunities for seeing the lighthouse while you golf which is why we're there. So that's my thing 10 out of 10

527
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,840
Oh, and they sell golf balls with the lighthouse on them

528
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:11,120
Plus t-shirts and hats and everything sandwiches. We bought everything dogs all of those listed. We had them all

529
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:13,920
Really great breakfast sandwiches

530
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:20,400
Honestly, like I think fondly back on and he's like is there one that you want that's not there and i was like

531
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:24,320
Oh, yeah, like just egg and cheese and I could bake that for you. Come on

532
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,000
On croissant class service. Yeah, nice guy

533
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:33,680
Nice people and excellent sandwich. The only downside the whole thing was the rented golf clubs

534
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,600
They were like ramshackle whatever

535
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,680
Didn't matter emily had men's clubs kind of

536
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:47,360
Yeah, I had uh, it was kind of fun. Actually. I had an old nike sq driver. Yeah, which is like a like

537
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,080
A lightning strike when you hit it

538
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:55,280
We did we did take a couple holes as learning curves with these

539
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,880
Clubs took a minute lost a ball literally on the first hit

540
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:04,080
In front of that's because it was the strangest hole i've ever seen

541
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:09,280
It was like remember it was like you you hit off a cliff and then you go down this hill

542
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:15,840
That like the the golf cart could barely even handle it. So that was hole two. Oh was it? Yeah hole one

543
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,400
Remember we pulled up there's like a putting green and everyone's waiting and they're like, oh you guys go ahead

544
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,680
I thought that's where it was. I just like hitting into the void. You didn't even hit

545
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:29,040
Oh, yeah, because I was too it was too embarrassing. I hit left not that anyone cares, but i'll tell you

546
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:33,440
And uh, if you know heaven length so you can look it up. I hit left into the

547
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:38,000
Rough. Yeah. Anyway, anyways, I lost my ball right away and they told me to go ahead and hit left

548
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:42,960
I lost my ball right away and they told us like, yeah, I wouldn't go out there. What was it ticks ticks?

549
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:47,440
Yeah, which is probably not true. It's probably a no no, they tell us that to keep us moving

550
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:52,080
No, they tell you massachusetts. They're like don't go in the brush. It's tick city. Well

551
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:56,800
So I lost that ball and the first hole the first hole was rough. Yeah, and then

552
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,160
After that it went pretty well. Yeah, we had fun at the very least

553
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:07,760
I don't remember how I golfed but it was fun. So to digress. It's all right. Highland light lighthouses. Here we go back on it

554
00:42:08,460 --> 00:42:13,120
2009 the lighthouse was offered up under the preservation act of 2000, but nobody wanted it

555
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:17,040
And it was auctioned off in 2014 for

556
00:42:17,900 --> 00:42:21,680
222 000 to bobby sager i'm gonna say his name is

557
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,400
bob seger

558
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,880
s a g e r

559
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:29,040
bobby

560
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,040
sager

561
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:33,760
I'm trying

562
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:39,520
I'm trying to okay who also owns gray's reef lighthouse, which is close to our wagershaw's lighthouse

563
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:45,120
Of course and boone island lighthouse, which we haven't covered yet guys rolling in lighthouses. I know I was like

564
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:49,200
What are you doing with this person? Yeah, what are your intentions with our lighthouses?

565
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,400
What do you have to offer her?

566
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:57,680
Getting delirious

567
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:02,720
Nowadays the lighthouse continues to be an active guide to navigation but cannot be visited though

568
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,360
Those of the ghostly kind

569
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,000
Seem to frequent the light

570
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,120
Perfectly timed the execution is just

571
00:43:13,900 --> 00:43:20,400
Exceptional thanks while it is known as a place of romance and love like the I love you lighthouse the love lighthouse

572
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:22,800
it's

573
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:24,640
It's also um

574
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:29,120
holds lots of stories of unexplained sounds and sightings and

575
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:34,640
These seemingly from the two keepers who lost their lives to the spot so many years before

576
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:37,280
Yeah, at least they died together. Yeah, that's true

577
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:43,440
But it seems after death they still stick around. So I guess we'll never know and that's the story

578
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:45,040
of

579
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,040
Minot's ledge lighthouse

580
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:52,880
Never heard of it before a little valentine's theme just a little that's uh, that's big lighthouse country out there

581
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,800
Yeah, I know we keep hitting massachusetts with our but I mean they're everywhere

582
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,040
boston harbor, man

583
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:03,840
We're gonna have to cover cover. Whatever it is situate lighthouse. I have the pronunciation

584
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:07,360
I'm just i'm gonna find out what it actually is. I'm gonna be like, oh no

585
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:13,840
Well, thanks everybody for listening in and hope everyone had a great valentine's day

586
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:17,040
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587
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:23,920
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588
00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:27,120
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589
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590
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:34,000
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591
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:40,960
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592
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