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Five Story Plus Painting
The owner of this five-story apartment building in Berlin, Germany came up with a unique way to draw attention to the complex, and perhaps show their love of lighthouses. (Photo by Helen Falabino)
Seasonal Lights
The 1917 Lorain West Breakwater Lighthouse in Lorain, Ohio uses different colors of spotlights to highlight the lighthouse during different seasons, or for different causes. Here the lighthouse is lighted to celebrate the Halloween or the autumn season. This clearly shows why the lighthouse is known locally as “The Jewel of the Port.” (Courtesy Northeast Ohio Drone.)
A Grand Lighthouse
In 1636, the Isle of May Lighthouse became the first permanent lighthouse to be built in Scotland. The current structure, shown here, was built in 1816. Discontinued in 1986, the lighthouse structure, located on an island in Firth of Forth in southwest Scotland, is now void of human life. How many of you would love to live here?
Visiting Execution Rocks
The 1850 Execution Rocks Lighthouse that sits offshore to the approach to New York City is not your typical tourist destination lighthouse. However, through Historically Significant Structures, the organization that now owns the lighthouse, there are some tours available to the remote structure. Unfortunately, we may never know the names of these people, but they did take a moment to pose for this photo of their visit in the summer of 2019. (Courtesy Craig Morrison.)
USCG Helps Out at Currituck
At the end of last October, twenty members of the United States Coast Guard’s First Flight Mess showed up to help the folks at North Carolina’s Currituck Beach Lighthouse to help clean up the historic site, including in a singular focus, as shown here, of the removal of a tree stump left over from damage caused by Hurricane Dorian. They also washed the outside of the lantern and swept, dusted and mopped the inside of the 1875 light tower. (Photo courtesy Meghan Agresto, Site Manager, Currituck Beach, Lighthouse.)
Cold Days, Hot Tea & LHD
A cold winter’s day was the perfect day to day to settle in with the Lighthouse Digest. (Photo by Frederick Mikkelsen.)
Georgetown Lighthouse
The 4th order lens from South Carolina’s 1855 Georgetown Lighthouse on display in a replica lantern at the South Carolina Maritime Museum in Georgetown, South Carolina. The Georgetown Lighthouse is also known as the North Island Lighthouse. (Photo by Greg Krawczyk.)
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