1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,800 I'm Vince. 2 00:00:01,300 --> 00:00:02,500 Hey, you have to start. 3 00:00:03,500 --> 00:00:04,700 To greet everybody. 4 00:00:05,300 --> 00:00:05,800 What? 5 00:00:05,900 --> 00:00:07,000 You have to greet everyone. 6 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:07,800 Hey everybody. 7 00:00:07,900 --> 00:00:08,600 I'm Vince. 8 00:00:08,700 --> 00:00:09,500 And I'm Emily. 9 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:10,700 And you're listening to 10 00:00:10,700 --> 00:00:12,400 The Lighthouse Lowdown. 11 00:00:19,700 --> 00:00:20,800 We don't do it often enough 12 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:22,100 so you get a free pass. 13 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:23,700 Yeah, we're gonna have to 14 00:00:23,700 --> 00:00:24,400 cut that. 15 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:25,200 What? 16 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,400 Oh yeah, we don't want people to hear mistakes. 17 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:28,800 That's- I always- 18 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:30,400 Let them know that I'm on coffee. 19 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:32,400 I leave them in there all the time. 20 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:34,200 What- oh, Starbucks. 21 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:35,400 I was gonna say, what am I sipping on? 22 00:00:35,500 --> 00:00:35,900 Yeah. 23 00:00:35,900 --> 00:00:37,700 No, you got hot coffee. 24 00:00:37,700 --> 00:00:40,100 It's- Starbucks has this thing 25 00:00:40,500 --> 00:00:42,000 every weekend in January 26 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:43,900 where you get- buy one, get one free 27 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:46,600 after noon on the weekends. 28 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:48,300 And so that's what I did. 29 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:49,800 It should be a cool sponsor. 30 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:50,800 So yours was free. 31 00:00:50,900 --> 00:00:51,500 Starbucks. 32 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:52,100 Yes. 33 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:54,600 I did have some Captain Cecil's 34 00:00:55,500 --> 00:00:56,500 coffee this week. 35 00:00:56,500 --> 00:00:58,600 He was a past sponsor of ours. 36 00:00:58,600 --> 00:00:59,800 He sent us a bag. 37 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:00,200 Yeah. 38 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:01,000 And a bag for a giveaway. 39 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,500 It was- it's really good stuff. 40 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:04,600 But okay, let's get started. 41 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,100 I did not do a history buoy today. 42 00:01:07,100 --> 00:01:07,600 Oh. 43 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:08,100 And- 44 00:01:08,100 --> 00:01:08,600 God. 45 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:10,000 It's okay because- 46 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,200 Oh, it is? 47 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,400 It's okay because today is kind of a history buoy 48 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:15,800 in total. 49 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,200 Is this US LHS? 50 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:17,700 It is. 51 00:01:17,700 --> 00:01:18,600 Woohoo! 52 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:19,100 So- 53 00:01:19,100 --> 00:01:19,700 I'm excited. 54 00:01:19,700 --> 00:01:21,100 Let's get clicking. 55 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,000 The United States Lighthouse Society. 56 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:24,700 That's so cute. 57 00:01:24,700 --> 00:01:25,400 What is that? 58 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,600 That's an old- so all the images that you see today are- 59 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,800 I think all of them, nearly all of them I could say, 60 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,400 are from USLHS.org. 61 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:34,900 Okay. 62 00:01:34,900 --> 00:01:39,800 And this is an old signage, like a flag banner that they had. 63 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:43,000 We'll go through slides and I may have to go through them 64 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,400 on my own pace because I have a lot to read. 65 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,200 But I'm reading today and you're going to hear me reading 66 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:49,600 and I want to get things right. 67 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:51,400 So that's why I'm reading. 68 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:51,900 Okay. 69 00:01:51,900 --> 00:01:55,600 But what is the US LHS? 70 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,200 On screen you see the United States Lighthouse Society. 71 00:01:58,200 --> 00:01:58,700 Yes. 72 00:01:58,700 --> 00:01:59,700 That's not all it is. 73 00:01:59,700 --> 00:02:01,500 You're going to- we're going to find out. 74 00:02:01,500 --> 00:02:04,900 There's several things it is and could be and was and is today. 75 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:05,400 So- 76 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,100 The was is exciting for me because I know it used to be USLHE 77 00:02:08,100 --> 00:02:10,800 and then it was the Lighthouse Board and now it's the USLHS. 78 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:12,600 It was ever actually the Lighthouse Board. 79 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:13,300 We're going to talk about it. 80 00:02:13,300 --> 00:02:14,600 We're going to talk about it. 81 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,900 So the oversight- the official description- 82 00:02:17,900 --> 00:02:20,600 the oversight and administration of Lighthouses and other 83 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,000 aids to navigation in the United States have fallen under 84 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,300 several different government agencies and offices nearly 85 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:28,700 three centuries since the first light tower was built in 86 00:02:28,700 --> 00:02:31,600 Boston Harbor in 1716. 87 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:35,500 So a quick overview of the years and what it was called, 88 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:37,000 the service, the society. 89 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:37,500 Okay. 90 00:02:37,500 --> 00:02:42,200 1716 to 1789, the United States Lighthouse Service, 91 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:47,100 Lighthouse Establishment, USLHE, was in the Treasury Department. 92 00:02:47,100 --> 00:02:52,100 1789 to 1903, it was under the Treasury Department, 93 00:02:52,100 --> 00:02:54,200 but not- didn't have an official title. 94 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,600 It was just part of the Treasury Department was Lighthouses. 95 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:57,200 Oh. 96 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:01,700 1903 to 1913, the part of the Department of Commerce and Labor. 97 00:03:01,700 --> 00:03:04,900 Then the cabinet was split at the time in 1913. 98 00:03:04,900 --> 00:03:07,500 The Lighthouse System being assigned to the Department of 99 00:03:07,500 --> 00:03:10,500 Commerce alone, not Labor. 100 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:13,900 1939 was the US Coast Guard became involved. 101 00:03:13,900 --> 00:03:18,000 So the US Coast Guard, which was then in the Treasury Department, 102 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,300 so strange, took control of Lighthouses, returning them 103 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:24,000 once again, technically to the Treasury Department that they 104 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:24,800 were in before. 105 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:25,300 Yeah. 106 00:03:25,300 --> 00:03:28,400 So today the Coast Guard is still responsible for 107 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,400 Lighthouses, most, almost all of them. 108 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:31,200 Yes. 109 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:32,700 And it's still in the agency. 110 00:03:32,700 --> 00:03:33,300 Excuse me. 111 00:03:33,300 --> 00:03:36,700 Today, the Coast Guard is in the agency of Department of Homeland 112 00:03:36,700 --> 00:03:37,900 Security. 113 00:03:37,900 --> 00:03:39,800 So there's lots of cascades. 114 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,900 That's not really the point, but you can see it's gone through 115 00:03:42,900 --> 00:03:46,000 the United States government has had different roles in different 116 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,300 organization for there's not always been one US LHG. 117 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:53,500 So whenever they refer to the Lighthouse Board, was that like a 118 00:03:53,500 --> 00:03:55,700 board of directors in the Commerce Department? 119 00:03:55,700 --> 00:03:56,300 Exactly. 120 00:03:56,300 --> 00:03:56,900 Oh, okay. 121 00:03:56,900 --> 00:03:58,600 Yeah, we're going to, I'm going to tell you about it. 122 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,600 So I have today's a brief history, but the caption I came up 123 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,300 with, what is the US LHS? 124 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:05,800 Because there's a lot of history. 125 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,000 There's a lot of really interesting documentation. 126 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,100 There's a lot of stories. 127 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:12,400 There's a lot of changes that have happened and we're not going 128 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:13,400 to cover all that today. 129 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:15,600 That's a really in-depth conversation. 130 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:16,900 I have another question. 131 00:04:16,900 --> 00:04:17,400 Yeah, what's up? 132 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,200 And you may answer this later, but I just don't want to forget. 133 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:27,400 Did whenever the US LHS, US LHG started, like, okay. 134 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,200 They're not the same thing. 135 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:31,000 We were the British. 136 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,300 We were British. 137 00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:35,600 We were colonies of Great Britain. 138 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:35,900 Yeah. 139 00:04:35,900 --> 00:04:41,700 So were we a part of, did they control our Lighthouses or were 140 00:04:41,700 --> 00:04:45,600 we like a separate, was it like a separate government thing? 141 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:47,400 We controlled our own Lighthouses. 142 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:47,700 Okay. 143 00:04:47,700 --> 00:04:49,200 But we were colonies. 144 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,500 So we weren't part of the British Lighthouse. 145 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:52,300 Yeah. 146 00:04:52,300 --> 00:04:55,600 Like 1776 was the signing of the Declaration of Independence, 147 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,800 which was screw off Britain. 148 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:58,900 We're going to be our own thing. 149 00:04:58,900 --> 00:05:03,000 It was shortly after that that the US LHG was no longer a thing. 150 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Let me look at that. 151 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:05,400 1789, you said? 152 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:10,200 1789 through 1903, they were under the Treasury. 153 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,100 So there's kind of, yeah, short answer is yes. 154 00:05:13,100 --> 00:05:15,400 They were traded around. 155 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:16,500 I just don't know if maybe... 156 00:05:16,500 --> 00:05:21,500 We had some self-governance and I think we were already executing, 157 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:25,600 we being people who lived in North America, were already executing 158 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:31,500 the governance of Lighthouses, even if the body name did not change. 159 00:05:31,500 --> 00:05:31,900 Okay. 160 00:05:31,900 --> 00:05:35,100 So it wasn't managed from Great Britain. 161 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:36,500 Great Britain. 162 00:05:36,500 --> 00:05:37,400 Great Britain. 163 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,600 But it was owned, the colonies were owned by Great Britain. 164 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,200 So we had to fight a war to get free of that. 165 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:50,700 Do you think ours was based, our Lighthouse system was based off of Britain's 166 00:05:50,700 --> 00:05:51,600 Lighthouse system? 167 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:52,200 Okay. 168 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:53,300 I think so. 169 00:05:53,300 --> 00:05:59,000 I think historically Britain's been known for having like the world's, 170 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,000 historically, the world's best Navy. 171 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,100 And part of that probably includes Lighthouse management and that system. 172 00:06:06,100 --> 00:06:06,700 I didn't know that. 173 00:06:06,700 --> 00:06:09,100 I don't, I didn't do that research for today, but that's really interesting. 174 00:06:09,100 --> 00:06:11,400 That's a good future question. 175 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:17,000 So the two sets of letters that are most common you'll see are USLHE and USLHS. 176 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,900 And we've seen them on Bells and Clocks and Okra Coke, different things, 177 00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:23,300 different places. 178 00:06:23,300 --> 00:06:27,300 They're, everyone who's a historian of Lighthouses knows these terms, 179 00:06:27,300 --> 00:06:29,800 but they're not interchangeable. 180 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:30,900 They're not the same thing. 181 00:06:30,900 --> 00:06:31,300 Yeah. 182 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:35,100 So USLHE is the United States Lighthouse establishment. 183 00:06:35,100 --> 00:06:38,900 So here's my, I just put a picture from the website to look at something, 184 00:06:38,900 --> 00:06:45,700 but USLH board, society, establishment and service are all different things. 185 00:06:45,700 --> 00:06:50,100 The USLHE was the first official name of the American Lighthouse Agency. 186 00:06:50,100 --> 00:06:54,500 It was in the Ninth Act of Congress in 1789, that year we talked about, 187 00:06:54,500 --> 00:07:00,000 that took the 12 existing Lighthouses in what would become the United States 188 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:06,400 and various colonies, federal government was to control them, an act to establish 189 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,000 in support of Lighthouses. 190 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,100 So that's the Ninth Act of the new Congress. 191 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:11,000 Oh, cool. 192 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:16,300 A letter from the Federal Commissioner of Revenue in 1795 uses the language. 193 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:21,900 It appears that March 1790, the late Secretary of the Treasury, so on, so on, so on, 194 00:07:21,900 --> 00:07:24,600 Lighthouse establishment was received from Georgia. 195 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:29,200 So he's saying, hey, something is going on and he called it the Lighthouse establishment. 196 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,300 So that's one of our earliest records of USLHE. 197 00:07:32,300 --> 00:07:38,500 So I assume that that was carried over from prior Great Britain management. 198 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:39,200 Okay. 199 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:40,700 That was until 1910. 200 00:07:40,700 --> 00:07:44,800 We already talked about the change of, sorry, this is an article I'm citing here, 201 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:51,000 but the board, United States Lighthouse board is for a long time, 202 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,200 it was one guy, Stephen Pleasanton. 203 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:56,600 He was the singular head of the Lighthouse system. 204 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,200 His title was the fifth auditor of the Treasury. 205 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:03,200 So he was the care and superintendent of Lighthouse establishment under the 206 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,300 Secretary of Treasury. 207 00:08:05,300 --> 00:08:08,200 General and superintendent of Lights was another one of the titles. 208 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,300 Pretty cool thing to write down. 209 00:08:10,300 --> 00:08:14,300 But as things got more complex and the system got more challenging, 210 00:08:14,300 --> 00:08:18,600 and more Lighthouses, more ships, he was kind of called out. 211 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:25,200 So he was replaced and retired from that position in 1852. 212 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:29,000 That year, single administrator, him, was replaced by the board of eight 213 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,800 military engineers, distinguished scientists of the day, 214 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,300 under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, 215 00:08:35,300 --> 00:08:37,300 who was the ninth member of the Lighthouse board. 216 00:08:37,300 --> 00:08:38,700 So they had nine people. 217 00:08:38,700 --> 00:08:40,900 Secretary of the Treasury was one of them. 218 00:08:40,900 --> 00:08:45,200 Pleasanton, Mr. Pleasanton, was taken out of that position, 219 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,300 which he was probably relieved to do, it sounds like. 220 00:08:47,300 --> 00:08:48,200 Yeah. 221 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:52,700 And these were military-focused people, 222 00:08:52,700 --> 00:08:56,000 but who were a board now in charge of all the happenings. 223 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:03,000 So the board that I know I discussed it in one of our previous episodes. 224 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:04,600 My God. 225 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:08,300 I showed an image of the early board was those nine gentlemen. 226 00:09:08,300 --> 00:09:10,800 So military and engineers. 227 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:11,500 Cool. 228 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:14,300 So they didn't replace the Lighthouse establishment, 229 00:09:14,300 --> 00:09:17,200 but they were the board of directors of the establishment. 230 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,700 So that's why the Lighthouse board are the people who made the decisions. 231 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:24,400 Lighthouse establishment was a body that they were a part of. 232 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,100 So this is not what the whole episode is about, 233 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:28,800 but I wanted to do some of these. 234 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:30,500 So the board is a part of it. 235 00:09:30,500 --> 00:09:33,900 The society is not the same thing as the service. 236 00:09:33,900 --> 00:09:36,600 U-H-L-H, U-S-L-H-S. 237 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,600 Society is what we have today. 238 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:40,700 And we're going to talk about how that came to be. 239 00:09:40,700 --> 00:09:44,000 And there are great resource for Lighthouses today. 240 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,100 The establishment was the governing body. 241 00:09:46,100 --> 00:09:49,500 The service was the governing body after the military took over. 242 00:09:49,500 --> 00:09:50,400 Oh, after Coast Guard? 243 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:50,900 Yeah. 244 00:09:50,900 --> 00:09:55,400 So the Lighthouse service came from 1939. 245 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:56,800 U.S. Coast Guard took over. 246 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:58,600 And I think that it's called the service. 247 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,800 They used it interchangeably, though. 248 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,800 Like I have a letter from before that time, 1902. 249 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:09,000 It says, quote, no person employed in or in any way connected with 250 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,200 the Lighthouse service will be permitted to supply provisions 251 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,300 or rations for officers or crews of Lighthouse vessels 252 00:10:15,300 --> 00:10:18,200 or any Lighthouse establishment vessel, 253 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,300 or any vessel employed in the Lighthouse service charter or otherwise. 254 00:10:22,300 --> 00:10:23,200 That's one sentence. 255 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:23,700 Oh, my gosh. 256 00:10:23,700 --> 00:10:25,200 It says both of them. 257 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,700 So the point is it is a service. 258 00:10:27,700 --> 00:10:29,300 It was called the establishment. 259 00:10:29,300 --> 00:10:32,600 But I think it's like military service we think of. 260 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:38,400 Well, and even like I know that the Lighthouse establishment vessels 261 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,700 were still called establishment vessels because they were from that 262 00:10:41,700 --> 00:10:45,600 time period when it was under United States Lighthouse establishment. 263 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:49,400 So they were they still carried the name of the establishment 264 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,300 even when they were being used in a different time period. 265 00:10:52,300 --> 00:10:53,000 Yeah. 266 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:57,300 So the boil down at the end of the article, the summary, 267 00:10:57,300 --> 00:10:59,600 if one chooses to be officially correct, 268 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,300 they should use the term establishment referring to the system from 1789 269 00:11:03,300 --> 00:11:05,500 until the creation of the Bureau of Lighthouses, 270 00:11:05,500 --> 00:11:08,600 which is another thing, the Bureau in 1910. 271 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:10,300 Is that a short period? 272 00:11:10,300 --> 00:11:13,900 Okay. I vaguely feel like I've read or, you know, 273 00:11:13,900 --> 00:11:16,100 read off something from a bureau and I didn't. 274 00:11:16,100 --> 00:11:20,000 Yeah, the Bureau and they call it quote the Bureau for a while 275 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:25,700 in letters and documents from 1910 to 39 and 39 was US Coast Guard. 276 00:11:25,700 --> 00:11:28,300 So it's establishment Bureau service. 277 00:11:28,300 --> 00:11:32,900 The US LHS that we so often talk about today with the passport program 278 00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:37,400 with all the information on Lighthouses with the great website 279 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:40,700 uslhs.org is not the service. 280 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:43,600 It is the society United States Lighthouse Society. 281 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:45,100 It is different. 282 00:11:45,100 --> 00:11:46,400 It is a different body. 283 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:50,500 Is it like I didn't know this for two years is it's informational 284 00:11:50,500 --> 00:11:54,300 and not it's not actually in charge governing body. 285 00:11:54,300 --> 00:11:58,000 The governing body actually charges the Coast Guard that makes sense. 286 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:58,800 It's totally different. 287 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,500 Well, and I didn't we've been doing this for two years. 288 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:01,900 Yeah. 289 00:12:01,900 --> 00:12:05,400 Well, I never really considered it like because in my head the Coast Guard 290 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:10,500 that yeah, they they own the light like the actual like beacons now. 291 00:12:10,500 --> 00:12:15,700 And so I forget that that means the US LHS is more it's informational. 292 00:12:15,700 --> 00:12:18,800 It's not like it actually governing. 293 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:23,600 So so the US LHS is really what I want to put the attention on today. 294 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,900 The society what but the US LHS. 295 00:12:26,900 --> 00:12:27,300 Okay. 296 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:32,900 Yeah, so they have all of the data from the establishment. 297 00:12:32,900 --> 00:12:33,400 They do. 298 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:33,700 Okay. 299 00:12:33,700 --> 00:12:34,900 I'm going to tell you how that came to be. 300 00:12:34,900 --> 00:12:35,700 Excellent. 301 00:12:35,700 --> 00:12:40,400 So I have a history buoy coming up next episode that has 302 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,700 to do with the US LHS and so I'm excited to see if you cover what I was going to cover. 303 00:12:44,700 --> 00:12:45,900 If you do I'm guilty. 304 00:12:45,900 --> 00:12:49,200 I'll do something. 305 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:50,500 I'm quoting again. 306 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:56,600 The the saying is something like the US LHS the society didn't have a founder 307 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:00,500 that founded it but rather the society found the founder. 308 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:05,000 So it was a gentleman who wasn't looking to start something 309 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,800 but instead found himself in the position. 310 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:13,100 So his name is Wheeler Wayne your boy Wayne. 311 00:13:13,100 --> 00:13:14,300 So, okay. 312 00:13:14,300 --> 00:13:14,800 I'm sorry. 313 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:18,300 So founded officially in 1984. 314 00:13:18,300 --> 00:13:19,500 So many years later. 315 00:13:19,500 --> 00:13:21,300 Yeah, it's a society. 316 00:13:21,300 --> 00:13:25,800 It's the nation's premier lighthouse organization found its president rather than the other way around. 317 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:31,100 It started with some routine lighthouse experience of a young Coast Guard Lieutenant Wayne. 318 00:13:31,100 --> 00:13:33,700 So he was on duty as a lieutenant. 319 00:13:33,700 --> 00:13:34,100 Cool. 320 00:13:34,100 --> 00:13:46,400 But it really blossomed when he instead became a civilian Coast Guard employee and later an assistant to the AIDS the chief assistant to the AIDS and Navigation Branch of Northern California. 321 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:51,700 So I'm going to stop reading but my memory tells me from reading this article. 322 00:13:51,700 --> 00:13:52,800 It's more interesting to talk. 323 00:13:52,800 --> 00:14:03,800 Yeah, he was in this position working for the Coast Guard and then he was in another position this aid to navigation and they had all of the data all the books around him. 324 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:12,100 On lighthouses on flash patterns on day marks on ship navigation on history on keepers logs. 325 00:14:12,100 --> 00:14:16,600 He had all those physical copies in this for the West Coast in this office. 326 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:21,700 He was working in and so that's where it starts quote the long time society present recalls. 327 00:14:21,700 --> 00:14:31,100 So he had a report 1910 on Bulletin's engineering books instruction manuals even medical practice for lighthouse service 1981. 328 00:14:31,100 --> 00:14:37,500 He got a call from the National Park Service seeking information about the monument related to lighthouse. 329 00:14:37,500 --> 00:14:40,300 Yeah, he contacted Wheeler and said quote. 330 00:14:40,300 --> 00:14:41,000 I understand. 331 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:47,300 You're a lighthouse expert Wheeler took it home to his wife Sally and said this guy thinks I'm an expert isn't that funny. 332 00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:49,800 So it went on to be what it is. 333 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,100 So today on the website if you open their website the mission statement. 334 00:14:53,100 --> 00:15:00,000 So what what do they do preserve and share the history and legacy of America's lighthouses and their keepers and the vision statement. 335 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:00,900 I think it's funny. 336 00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:10,800 They both is to be a beacon to the American lighthouse community providing steadfast guidance and resources on heritage education preservation all things lighthouses. 337 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:17,300 So they're the modern day textbook the modern tour the modern website. 338 00:15:17,300 --> 00:15:23,700 Defined information on lighthouses in the United States collection of all lighthouse knowledge. 339 00:15:23,700 --> 00:15:25,300 I thought this image was super cool. 340 00:15:25,300 --> 00:15:28,000 It's from Paris exposition 1900. 341 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:38,100 So they're talking about Fresnel lenses the different types and sizes and this was still relevant like it was like a sales pitch like here's all of your uses. 342 00:15:38,100 --> 00:15:41,100 You should get a Fresnel lens like a World's Fair. 343 00:15:41,100 --> 00:15:43,000 I want to go to this. 344 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:43,400 Look at that. 345 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:44,900 Can there be something like this now? 346 00:15:44,900 --> 00:15:46,600 Can I wear that hat? 347 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:47,800 You could have mercury in it. 348 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:49,300 But is it a bowler hat? 349 00:15:49,300 --> 00:15:53,400 I think so. 350 00:15:53,400 --> 00:16:04,000 Wayne Wheeler said that he put together a slideshow presentation for a middle school and then he was asked to present at a yacht club someone who saw that some parent. 351 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,700 Then after that the phone just rang off the hook. 352 00:16:06,700 --> 00:16:10,700 Lots more talks followed for Wheeler about 1982. 353 00:16:10,700 --> 00:16:12,400 He came early. 354 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,700 He came home and said boy there's a lot of lighthouse enthusiasts out there. 355 00:16:15,700 --> 00:16:23,000 They ought to get organized bingo sort of it was going to be supposed to be called the California lighthouse Society. 356 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:28,000 And he had a talk with a friend who said stop thinking so small thinking less. 357 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,600 So he retired from his position to become the guy. 358 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:33,400 He was the guy. 359 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:39,900 He had the books and back in the 80s when books were all we had. 360 00:16:39,900 --> 00:16:42,800 He was answering the phone calls and giving the presentations. 361 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:44,500 He was he was the guy. 362 00:16:44,500 --> 00:16:45,100 So cool. 363 00:16:45,100 --> 00:16:46,100 Really cool. 364 00:16:46,100 --> 00:16:52,900 So he gave us what we have today and what we have today with the society is so closely tied in culture. 365 00:16:52,900 --> 00:17:01,900 And they give so much in the shed so much credit to the service the establishment that us included mix them up. 366 00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:20,500 So talked about the strategy but they have two things they're going after expand and enhance our services and value to the entire American Lighthouse Society community and help the community to grow by bold sharing our knowledge resources and passions which is what they do perfectly. 367 00:17:20,500 --> 00:17:34,700 And then to talks about them operating excellently which I think makes sense for an ex retired Coast Guard guy was talking about to do a really good job. 368 00:17:34,700 --> 00:17:47,100 If you don't do a really good job with your information with your presentation with everything that has your stamp on it then saying that they're not going to retain that loyalty and what they value will go away. 369 00:17:47,100 --> 00:18:03,600 So I respect that a lot. I think they're living up to it today and we're going to show slides on all these but if you go to their website and that's what I'm going to surf around there published in magazines they have over the history of the society. 370 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:08,400 There's several volunteers that have been really key to what they're doing early on. 371 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:13,200 They had a photography competition so you could submit like a picture of a lighthouse. 372 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:27,200 Yeah, and it became what I would say now is like really common lighthouse photography and art in the United States, but it helped to promote like people usually know about a lighthouse at least locally. 373 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:32,500 But then you see a different one and a different style and a short one and a tall one a different day marked. 374 00:18:32,500 --> 00:18:36,800 So it kind of spread the interest in what was going on. 375 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:40,700 It's a nonprofit organization since the founding in 1984. 376 00:18:40,700 --> 00:18:45,500 They do lighthouse tours. They organize and execute them. 377 00:18:45,500 --> 00:18:47,700 They have a lot of lighthouse. 378 00:18:47,700 --> 00:18:52,700 What's called? Oh, no, I had it and then it went away. 379 00:18:52,700 --> 00:18:54,100 Trips, I don't know. 380 00:18:54,100 --> 00:18:58,400 Yeah, I mean tours like what vacations. 381 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:04,700 Yeah, they organize cruises and yeah, they have one for Alaska coming up. 382 00:19:04,700 --> 00:19:12,200 I saw that catch a can one in Germany. I can't remember. There's one international one that's going on. 383 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,400 Really have some and they did some in like Iceland and stuff. 384 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:19,900 So it's not just the US they do some some out of out of US. 385 00:19:19,900 --> 00:19:22,100 Yes, they have good relationships. 386 00:19:22,100 --> 00:19:24,500 They have a lighthouse digest. 387 00:19:24,500 --> 00:19:27,700 Yeah, so this is their the keepers lighthouse digest. 388 00:19:27,700 --> 00:19:30,000 It comes with one of the memberships. 389 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,600 No, that's the keepers log. 390 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,000 The keepers log is a separate thing. 391 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:40,500 I didn't know there was another magazine and as of yesterday, 392 00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:44,900 I am now a member of the US LHS well joined the club. 393 00:19:44,900 --> 00:19:47,700 I see I thought it was about time. 394 00:19:47,700 --> 00:19:49,000 Can I have your patches? 395 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:57,300 No, can't have my patches, but the lighthouse digest shows some of their artwork and some of their articles that are organized. 396 00:19:57,300 --> 00:20:01,800 Did you get did you become a part of this magazine club? 397 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,400 So I'm going to look at membership on the website. 398 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,300 Join or renew. 399 00:20:08,300 --> 00:20:14,400 I am a keeper membership, which is we're going to I can I can show my screen, 400 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:16,400 but I'm going to finish the presentation first. 401 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,800 Okay, so don't go to the membership levels. 402 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:20,700 Yes, okay. 403 00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:23,900 We don't have to I mean I am going to go to the passport. 404 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:24,700 Is that okay? 405 00:20:24,700 --> 00:20:25,800 Yes, that's good. 406 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,200 That was another one I was going to do, but it's not the next one. 407 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,200 So the passport system. 408 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:38,300 It's genius is a genius idea because people like me who I think I said this before but like if I play a video game, 409 00:20:38,300 --> 00:20:42,600 I'm one of those people that just wants to collect everything there is to collect in the game go everywhere. 410 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:43,100 There is to go. 411 00:20:43,100 --> 00:20:56,000 Yes, it's made for people like me who just like a lot like from now on for of all time our lighthouse related trips will be based on which lighthouses have stamps. 412 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,800 I still have zero stamp. 413 00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:58,700 I can't believe you have zero. 414 00:20:58,700 --> 00:21:01,800 I haven't climbed the lighthouse and I have zero stamps. 415 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:06,500 So lame lame is lame. 416 00:21:06,500 --> 00:21:13,000 So the the passport program was started in 1994, which is crazy to me 84 94. 417 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Okay, so one year short of 95, which is a great year. 418 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,600 When I was born me Patrick my homes and post Malone. 419 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:27,900 So and many other wonderful people United States lighthouse program. 420 00:21:27,900 --> 00:21:34,000 So you track your visits for those who don't know so you get this passport that looks like a US official passport. 421 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:52,100 Yeah, and it has pages that have really cool artwork, but you stamp you collect stamps by going to lighthouses or proving you're at the lighthouse with a photo and then the the lighthouse keepers is a lack of words. 422 00:21:52,100 --> 00:21:56,900 The people who manage that lighthouse like Alcatraz Island is the national park service. 423 00:21:56,900 --> 00:22:03,000 They will have applied paid for and then gotten the stamp that's custom designed by the US LHS. 424 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,200 They say they pay the fee. 425 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:12,400 So the hope is that you as a visitor go and you donate at least a dollar you give them something to promote their lighthouse. 426 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:13,700 Thank you so much. 427 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:16,300 They in turn give you a stamp in your passport. 428 00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:19,000 You collect stamps you fill the passport. 429 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,300 Is it 60 that's right? 430 00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:27,000 60 stamps fill a password or about to find out another thing is. 431 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:33,100 Every year that they do sorry if I'm stepping on your every year that they do this password. 432 00:22:33,100 --> 00:22:48,600 There are new stamps that get added sometimes like a lot of lighthouses in New York have several different stamps you can get depending on where you go to get the stamp or some places will have to stamp so you can ask for both. 433 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,700 And they also lose a lot of stamps every year like this is no longer participating. 434 00:22:52,700 --> 00:22:59,800 This has changed designs like stuff like that and they send a notice every year about new stamps that are being added. 435 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:14,400 And they also said this year that a lot of people like volunteers or employees at lighthouses and also the places like the museums where because like a lot of lighthouses you go to you can't get the stamp at the lighthouse. 436 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:24,800 You have to go somewhere else to get the stamp and people won't know about the stamp program because it's kind of obscure like it's not people that go there aren't the subculture. 437 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:29,000 Yeah, it's like it's a deeper thing that a lot of people aren't a part of. 438 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:36,900 So then some people would message to the US LHS and be like, hey, I showed up and you said there was going to be a stamp here and they had no idea what I was talking about. 439 00:23:36,900 --> 00:23:44,200 And in those cases you have to do it by mail because it's just that this person that you talked to didn't know that there was a stamp program. 440 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:49,600 So you kind of have to ask around just like, oh, it made me realize like I may have to. 441 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:51,800 Yeah, it's not super well known. 442 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:53,300 Yeah, it's not. 443 00:23:53,300 --> 00:23:58,000 I mean, it is super well known in the right community and the folks who are listening probably know. 444 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:08,200 But yeah, if you go to I think one of the examples is like Cape Disappointment Lighthouse, there's no facility there for visitors. 445 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:14,400 There is a Cape Disappointment State Park, which is just across the bay, which is where North Head Lighthouse is at. 446 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,900 And that is where you would go and like get stamps for probably both. 447 00:24:18,900 --> 00:24:20,300 Right. But yeah, it's funny. 448 00:24:20,300 --> 00:24:22,000 It's not actually at the lighthouse. 449 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,900 So that's true for a lot of lighthouses. 450 00:24:24,900 --> 00:24:25,800 What was our first one? 451 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,400 It wasn't Okra Coke. 452 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:29,100 Bodie. 453 00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:30,200 Yeah, Bodie Island. 454 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:39,500 So they had in Outer Banks, they had a building which was a store slash history museum. 455 00:24:39,500 --> 00:24:40,800 The old Kupers Cottage. 456 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:45,300 And yes, which is often what's done with the Kupers Cottage is, which is great. 457 00:24:45,300 --> 00:24:51,700 And also they have someone there, I'm sure with a stamp that knows people are going to come and ask me for a stamp, 458 00:24:51,700 --> 00:24:56,500 especially on the Outer Banks, which are covered in lighthouses. 459 00:24:56,500 --> 00:25:02,200 When you fill your stamp, when you fill your passport, you get a patch. 460 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:03,500 So these are some of the patches. 461 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:08,600 So I personally think the first one you get is the coolest one. 462 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:12,200 And then the prestige that comes with more obviously is really neat. 463 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:16,200 But I just like the design so much of the first one, which makes me happy. 464 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:23,000 But you fill it out, your entire book, and you can have stamps from lighthouses that are not official. 465 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,300 You can have stickers or other things. 466 00:25:25,300 --> 00:25:27,300 I would encourage you to go read on the website. 467 00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:27,800 Right. 468 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,100 But, excuse me. 469 00:25:31,100 --> 00:25:39,300 But once you prove to the US LHS that you've got your first passport filled out, they'll send you this stamp in this patch in the mail. 470 00:25:39,300 --> 00:25:42,000 I have seen the light and it's the all white one. 471 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,200 And then 60. 472 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,700 So 60 is a complete passport book. 473 00:25:46,700 --> 00:25:54,900 And if you go further and you continue and apparently people are doing this, the website has their list, their names listed. 474 00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:55,200 Yes. 475 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,000 Who's in what club? 476 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:56,300 Yeah. 477 00:25:56,300 --> 00:26:03,200 And if you someone just hit the 300 Lighthouses Club and they shouted them out in the email that they updated stuff. 478 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:04,600 So, I mean, 300. 479 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,000 300. 480 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:11,400 So now a lot of people are getting these, you know, if you go down the Outer Banks, you're going to see what five or six. 481 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:20,100 And then if you want to cruise, especially one organized by the US LHS, they will have like potentially 12, you know, that boom, you get them. 482 00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:24,300 So I think that's how people, these retirees, man, they have a life. 483 00:26:24,300 --> 00:26:24,800 Yes. 484 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:26,000 Seeing so many lighthouses. 485 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,000 I'm so jealous. 486 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,600 So you can see the light. 487 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:33,800 Then if you turn in to you get the Silver Star level, 120 lighthouses. 488 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,000 So it's a new patch and so on. 489 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,500 Three, four. 490 00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:43,200 And then once you get to 300, which is five books, they get you this little wing is what they call it. 491 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:47,000 And then six books, a second wing, seven books, a third wing. 492 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:51,900 So it looks like is like when you're platinum 240 lighthouses, they're all circular patches. 493 00:26:51,900 --> 00:26:59,400 And then when you hit 300, it becomes like a strip each another 60 lighthouses after 300. 494 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:04,200 Then you get a cup to complete a circle around your existing platinum circle. 495 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,200 And then there's another. 496 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:06,900 There's more. 497 00:27:06,900 --> 00:27:08,300 Oh my gosh. 498 00:27:08,300 --> 00:27:14,600 There's the diamond circle, which is a whole new patch orange border, which really stands out from the other ones. 499 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,200 And it was a diamond color scheme. 500 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,400 Four hundred and eight lighthouses kind of gaudy. 501 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:20,400 I'm into it. 502 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,600 And then you get three more wings as you go on. 503 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:28,300 So the top of the line is 660 lighthouses. 504 00:27:28,300 --> 00:27:32,200 And I think I should know this and I we can read it in a second. 505 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,600 I think. 506 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,300 There's one more. 507 00:27:36,300 --> 00:27:37,600 Oh, it's a flag. 508 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,800 The Pharaoh. 509 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:40,600 Isn't it a flag? 510 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:41,500 I'll tell you about the flag in a second. 511 00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:42,200 Oh, OK. 512 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:43,100 It's here. 513 00:27:43,100 --> 00:27:44,900 Let's check the next slide. 514 00:27:44,900 --> 00:27:47,000 No, we'll talk about the flag. 515 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,700 But it's like what's the original first lighthouse ever made? 516 00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:52,600 The Pharaoh. 517 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,100 Oh, Alexandria. 518 00:27:55,100 --> 00:27:55,900 Yeah. 519 00:27:55,900 --> 00:27:58,300 So we'll look while I look at the website. 520 00:27:58,300 --> 00:27:59,500 Well, I'll bring it on screen. 521 00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:00,100 We'll surf. 522 00:28:00,100 --> 00:28:07,300 But the flag comes from filling out a passport book with 100 percent stamps. 523 00:28:07,300 --> 00:28:13,100 So no stickers, no images that proved you were somewhere, but the actual stamps themselves. 524 00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:17,000 You get a fully stamp only award, which is that flag. 525 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,500 I thought it was oh. 526 00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:20,700 I didn't know that was a thing. 527 00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:27,700 For some reason, I thought the flag was for if it was only lighthouses because there's a lot of stamps you can get that aren't lighthouses. 528 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:32,500 They're like Coast Guard Museum or a light ship or something. 529 00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:33,200 We'll review. 530 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:34,800 OK, because you might be right. 531 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,000 You. Yeah, I just I haven't looked at it. 532 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,500 So I wanted to show this again. 533 00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:41,800 We've already covered it, but sharing their knowledge, resources and passions. 534 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,700 So I'm going to go surf the website with on screen. 535 00:28:44,700 --> 00:28:47,700 We're going to talk about it because I couldn't fit it all on slides. 536 00:28:47,700 --> 00:28:49,500 Right. 537 00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:51,200 But something else they've got. 538 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:56,100 They've got their own podcast, which is Jeremy De Ettermo is the host. 539 00:28:56,100 --> 00:28:57,600 And it's a really good podcast. 540 00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:58,600 If you're looking for another one. 541 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:04,900 Yeah, it's it's the official podcast of the US LHS light hearted is the name. 542 00:29:04,900 --> 00:29:08,700 So there's images on screen, but it's also found on the website. 543 00:29:08,700 --> 00:29:16,200 And it's it's a lot more in depth than ours because ours are like theirs is really nice because they always have a special guest. 544 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:23,900 And so it'll be someone who works with a specific lighthouse or someone who's an expert in like something specific. 545 00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:29,600 And they also do current events like anytime something new happens in the lighthouse world, they'll cover it. 546 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:39,300 And so it's like deeper than ours where we just talk about like history of certain lighthouses, which I really I think I'm glad that ours is like different in some way. 547 00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:44,400 Yes, you can listen to both and have very different. 548 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:50,800 Yeah, when I read different information, when I tell people that I meet about our podcast, I have to mention light hearted. 549 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,900 And it's it's because that's the it's the news of light lighthouses. 550 00:29:54,900 --> 00:29:58,300 It's the like you said, current ongoing deep conversations. 551 00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:07,700 Ours, we have a lot of fun and we try to be a little lighter than light hearted, but we're appealing to a different crowd. 552 00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:09,700 I think it's good. I think there's room for both. 553 00:30:09,700 --> 00:30:16,100 And I think there's special things that only Jeremy can cover with his extensive work. 554 00:30:16,100 --> 00:30:23,600 Jeremy, this is the website and there's like go to the main main one, but I wanted to show you that's all I'm going to say about it. 555 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:24,800 I am the keeper level. 556 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,300 So I will get this patch in the mail and I'm beacon. 557 00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:32,200 Oh, you're really investing. 558 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:36,300 I use their website so much that maybe I should help them out. 559 00:30:36,300 --> 00:30:40,700 Yeah, but I'll let you cover more details in a future episode on the membership. 560 00:30:40,700 --> 00:30:42,600 I love that patch. 561 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:49,300 So you can also gift memberships if you're so inclined, but let's just kind of surf for a minute, kind of talk about some of the things we've already seen. 562 00:30:49,300 --> 00:30:57,500 Yeah. And like I mentioned in a like I mentioned in a past episode, they recently redid their website and it's really a big improvement. 563 00:30:57,500 --> 00:31:05,800 Yeah. So something else I'm jumping on my own notes here, but they really did a good job with social media in the Internet. 564 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:17,600 I think they said it was like early 2000s like 03 is when they were on online and updating the website, which I mean what YouTube came out in 2005. 565 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:18,500 I think it was launched. 566 00:31:18,500 --> 00:31:21,300 Oh, wow. Facebook was around what oh seven. 567 00:31:21,300 --> 00:31:21,700 I don't know. 568 00:31:21,700 --> 00:31:32,400 But the point is they were breaking bleeding edge and they've worked several times and recently to update both their Internet presence as well as social media. 569 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,400 So they're putting in a lot of work here. 570 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,600 We see the Keepers log. 571 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,800 So that's included. 572 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,200 That's what I got keeper level. 573 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,300 So the Keepers log is different from the magazines that I showed. 574 00:31:44,300 --> 00:31:45,100 Okay. 575 00:31:45,100 --> 00:31:49,200 Magazines are a separate thing that we can I did see us a sign on here. 576 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:50,800 Lighthearted podcast. 577 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,200 It's new. 578 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,800 Yeah, I'm going to talk about their accommodations and their tours. 579 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,300 Yeah, that's what I was thinking of. 580 00:31:57,300 --> 00:32:00,400 I you said tours and for some reason I thought it was a different word. 581 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:07,900 But yeah, this one's full 2024 Caribbean cruise 15 Lighthouse is nine days solar. 582 00:32:07,900 --> 00:32:13,100 That's a pretty lighthouse solar eclipse Lake Erie Denmark in Germany, Germany. 583 00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:14,700 Yeah, so cool. 584 00:32:14,700 --> 00:32:16,300 Well, I kind of get Northern California. 585 00:32:16,300 --> 00:32:18,500 You know that mean lots of cool things. 586 00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:20,200 These groups look like fun. 587 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,200 We'll meet people and have a good time. 588 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,400 Yeah, so they do several things. 589 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:25,000 First off. 590 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:26,000 I'm going to mention at the end again. 591 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,100 You can donate on the website or via mail if you so choose. 592 00:32:30,100 --> 00:32:34,000 And that's how the best way to support them is probably membership and then donations, 593 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,000 but they do endowments. 594 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,400 So they have like scholarship type programs and they also have grant programs. 595 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:44,400 So if you have a lighthouse project, you want to work on there's a you should read the website. 596 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,600 There's a submission process to say here's what I want to do. 597 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,600 Here's images and background and here's what we plan to do. 598 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:51,700 Yeah, they do that every year. 599 00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:55,600 They try to give out two to three projects that they help fund. 600 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:56,600 Yeah, that's really cool. 601 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,800 They listed that in that email I was talking about as well. 602 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,400 I think it's just like at the beginning of the year. 603 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:09,100 They say what their plans are and like like the people who got 300 lighthouses like they so they say all the changes 604 00:33:09,100 --> 00:33:13,900 and then at the bottom they said which projects they were funding for which lighthouses. 605 00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:15,400 So that's all on there too. 606 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,400 Should have said should afforded you the email if I had known it. 607 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:18,900 Yeah, it's cool. 608 00:33:18,900 --> 00:33:20,000 They do a lot of cool stuff. 609 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,800 I'm really blown away by what they do. 610 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,300 I know it's so much the passport is I don't know. 611 00:33:24,300 --> 00:33:26,000 I just I love the passport. 612 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,100 The passport so cool. 613 00:33:27,100 --> 00:33:36,200 So we're on the passport page now and we I just scrolled past all the levels that we talked about 11 passports 660 lighthouses 11 614 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:36,900 passports. 615 00:33:36,900 --> 00:33:39,300 Yep, that's the Pharaohs of Alexandria. 616 00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:43,500 So I was kind of close to Pharaohs the Hall of Fame pieces. 617 00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:47,100 They have a web page that shows who's made that accomplishment. 618 00:33:47,100 --> 00:33:52,200 There's 900 locations with at least one stamp you weaklings with zero stamps. 619 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,000 In addition, many stamps have been redesigned. 620 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:59,300 The tours provide hundreds of more stamps and lots of locations have multiple stamps. 621 00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:00,100 Okay, and you're right. 622 00:34:00,100 --> 00:34:00,400 You're right. 623 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:08,700 It says if a passport can paint contains only stamps collector receives a stamp only flag for each one in excess of 11. 624 00:34:08,700 --> 00:34:11,600 Yeah, what does that mean? 625 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:18,200 I don't know stamps only official stamps when this type of passport is verified. 626 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:23,600 The program member will not only receive the badge but also commemorative custom patch. 627 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,200 Oh, okay. 628 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:35,600 So even if I were to turn in the first like with only 60 light only 60 lighthouses if there were only official stamps, then it would be a stamp only award. 629 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:45,200 Does that does that mean you can't you probably want on this but if there's some other ways to park your way if you mail in stamps, it won't count. 630 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:46,100 Do not mail them in. 631 00:34:46,100 --> 00:34:47,500 They've asked specific on here. 632 00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:54,900 Do no, no, no, no, if you get stamps in the mail that won't count as stamp only or do you think it will? 633 00:34:54,900 --> 00:34:57,600 I don't I don't know how you get stamps in the mail. 634 00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:58,400 I know what you're saying. 635 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:02,500 Yeah, I think it's a sticker maybe and maybe it's an official. 636 00:35:02,500 --> 00:35:06,400 So because they send you a rubber thing to stamp your own passport. 637 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,000 They stamp it on a piece of paper. 638 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,000 You cut it out. 639 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,600 Oh, I don't count. 640 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:11,700 Okay, I would count. 641 00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:13,200 Yeah, because it's like I was there. 642 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:19,000 Yeah, yeah, because when we went to the Outer Banks, I found out about the passport thing afterwards devastating. 643 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:20,800 It was right afterwards. 644 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:28,700 So I figured out where to get the stamps from but you have to mail in a what is it called the picture? 645 00:35:28,700 --> 00:35:37,400 Yeah, mail in proof that you were there two dollars and a envelope that's already stamped. 646 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:42,300 What is it called self-addressed return to send something envelope? 647 00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:43,500 Yeah, you have to send that. 648 00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:44,300 We pay. 649 00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:46,100 I haven't gotten gotten around to doing that. 650 00:35:46,100 --> 00:35:53,800 But so yeah, and if you want to you don't have to join as a member and well, you can talk about the memberships in the future, 651 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,400 but you can just get a passport if you want. 652 00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:02,100 You don't have to be a member of the US LHS and then there's also a passport level, which I think is the entry level. 653 00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:10,700 Yeah, so you get some other perks if you sign up and any any membership you do sign up for you also get the passport membership. 654 00:36:10,700 --> 00:36:12,500 Yeah. Yeah, that's true. 655 00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:17,600 It's all-encompassing but you have to buy the passport book separately. 656 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:22,100 Yep. So here's the the Keepers log. 657 00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:24,300 If you get the keeper level, it kind of keeps you up. 658 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:27,000 It's modern news and articles. 659 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:35,600 Then I have on my notes resources because there's so many I know there's so many and they're so good and you know this because you're looking at them. 660 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:40,800 But lighthouse technology is going to be its own like history boogie collection. 661 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,200 Yeah, light lists is really interesting. 662 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:54,800 Obviously, you know what and day marks are on here foghorns are on here and their audio recordings single listen to a foghorn from cool 1930 something. 663 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,300 Oh, there's so many. 664 00:36:56,300 --> 00:37:05,200 Okay, I exaggerated 1970 is oldest that's listed here, but I've listened to some of these and something when I listen to these I won't play them now. 665 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:12,600 We can play them off off air, but they play and then they run out of air and it's like 666 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:17,400 whoa, like it jumps an octave like I used to play trumpet. 667 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:23,200 Yeah, if you you know, you you can play multiple octaves of the same note based on airflow and pressure. 668 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:28,700 So I was like, of course, a foghorn would work that way too, but it's not a sound that I had heard before. 669 00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:34,300 It's not the me and it's all yeah, it was kind of a flutter at the end. 670 00:37:34,300 --> 00:37:42,100 I thought it was cool. So the bellows or the compressor or whatever runs out of capacity until it has to recharge thought that was cool. 671 00:37:42,100 --> 00:37:44,600 But that's on here. 672 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:50,300 You can I mean, there's information there's children stuff in memoriam is insane. 673 00:37:50,300 --> 00:37:51,200 Have you seen this page? 674 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:55,700 No, so this shows all the lighthouse personnel that have died. 675 00:37:55,700 --> 00:37:59,200 Oh, this would actually be really helpful drowned electric shock. 676 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:05,500 Oh, I fell off cliff died from coal stove fumes killed in hurricane killed in tsunami. 677 00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:10,700 Drowned drowned drowned. There's so many drowned black keeper killed an Indian attack. 678 00:38:10,700 --> 00:38:15,400 1836 I assume they noted that because he was black, he was killed. 679 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:19,600 I don't know. Like drowned boat in tsunami. 680 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,500 Booy gas explosion. 681 00:38:21,500 --> 00:38:26,000 Now I am not using these people's dead in head by Derek. 682 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,300 Hear me out. 683 00:38:27,300 --> 00:38:29,500 I am not using these people's deaths as entertainment. 684 00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:32,500 I'm sorry, but there is a lot this I mean, this is history. 685 00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:33,500 These are real people. 686 00:38:33,500 --> 00:38:36,900 Yes, there's a lot of really interesting. 687 00:38:36,900 --> 00:38:39,300 Demises in this goes including murder. 688 00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:42,100 Yeah, and this goes along with what I was saying. 689 00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:48,200 I don't know if it was the last episode with split rock, but a lot. 690 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:54,800 There's a lot of deaths and you can see him here, especially by drowning drowning. 691 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,400 Fell it's especially assistant keepers as well. 692 00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:02,200 They are always the ones that are in the boats going somewhere for supplies or something 693 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:03,900 and then have it capsized. 694 00:39:03,900 --> 00:39:06,200 There's one so murdered is on here. 695 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,400 There's several actually shot. 696 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:14,200 Accidentally shot accidentally shot suicide said they're all sad. 697 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:19,000 Then there's a shot and killed by assistant keeper painting tower. 698 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,500 Then there's one I won't waste all day on this, but there's one good. 699 00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:27,500 There's one where it's like five people in a row and it's like lightships sank and it's 700 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:28,500 all the same date. 701 00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:29,500 Oh, awful. 702 00:39:29,500 --> 00:39:30,500 Damn it. 703 00:39:30,500 --> 00:39:36,000 Like so this is not it's not enough fucking fun at these people who passed away, but it's 704 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,700 really interesting and it's they update this anytime it's submitted. 705 00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:44,200 So this doesn't include natural by natural causes. 706 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,900 These are like all like accident stuff. 707 00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:47,900 So shoot there. 708 00:39:47,900 --> 00:39:52,300 The resources is probably the highlight of the website and it's really so in depth. 709 00:39:52,300 --> 00:39:56,000 Lots so much information and that's kind of their whole purpose is right. 710 00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:01,100 Spreading the information the travel page we already clicked on. 711 00:40:01,100 --> 00:40:03,500 But there's something else I want to show you accommodations. 712 00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:04,500 Oh, yeah. 713 00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:06,040 Stay at the lighthouse. 714 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:07,180 You sure can. 715 00:40:07,180 --> 00:40:11,140 There's two of them that the US LHS has done restorations on. 716 00:40:11,140 --> 00:40:15,900 They're both near Seattle, Seattle on our Pacific Northern Loop. 717 00:40:15,900 --> 00:40:18,160 Look at the images. 718 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,320 Point no point and point Wilson. 719 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,860 So there's their torch Dungeon S. Remember that there. 720 00:40:23,860 --> 00:40:25,300 So they're different places. 721 00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:27,940 But Mount Rainier, I think is what's shown in the background here. 722 00:40:27,940 --> 00:40:29,620 They're just so beautiful. 723 00:40:29,620 --> 00:40:31,940 This one I think is 250 a night minimum two nights. 724 00:40:31,940 --> 00:40:34,300 350 a night minimum two nights. 725 00:40:34,300 --> 00:40:37,020 Not nearly as bad as the ones I was looking at Cape Cod. 726 00:40:37,020 --> 00:40:38,020 And they're cool. 727 00:40:38,020 --> 00:40:39,020 My gosh. 728 00:40:39,020 --> 00:40:43,860 So these are actually US LHS and point no point is actually where the headquarters is 729 00:40:43,860 --> 00:40:45,860 at now for the US LHS. 730 00:40:45,860 --> 00:40:46,860 Can you go? 731 00:40:46,860 --> 00:40:47,860 Yeah. 732 00:40:47,860 --> 00:40:50,740 But half of the Keepers house is the headquarters. 733 00:40:50,740 --> 00:40:52,700 The other half is the end that you stay in. 734 00:40:52,700 --> 00:40:54,060 There's a divided duplex. 735 00:40:54,060 --> 00:40:55,060 Yeah. 736 00:40:55,060 --> 00:40:56,060 I didn't know headquarters. 737 00:40:56,060 --> 00:40:57,060 Wow. 738 00:40:57,060 --> 00:40:58,340 I'll click on it. 739 00:40:58,340 --> 00:41:00,420 So you see it's a duplex. 740 00:41:00,420 --> 00:41:03,260 There's actually images. 741 00:41:03,260 --> 00:41:04,860 There's a walkthrough video on here. 742 00:41:04,860 --> 00:41:05,860 What it looks like. 743 00:41:05,860 --> 00:41:06,860 Really cool. 744 00:41:06,860 --> 00:41:07,860 They did a good job. 745 00:41:07,860 --> 00:41:11,660 And as our listeners know, there's several places you can stay in lighthouses. 746 00:41:11,660 --> 00:41:14,060 But it's cool that these are US LHS. 747 00:41:14,060 --> 00:41:15,060 Yeah. 748 00:41:15,060 --> 00:41:16,060 Official. 749 00:41:16,060 --> 00:41:17,060 You can shop. 750 00:41:17,060 --> 00:41:18,060 You can buy things and stuff. 751 00:41:18,060 --> 00:41:21,840 I thought we should do maybe a giveaway in the early future. 752 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:26,420 Maybe a hat from them or a shirt or maybe a membership. 753 00:41:26,420 --> 00:41:33,020 On my Christmas list last year was a US LHS hat and it's discontinued. 754 00:41:33,020 --> 00:41:34,020 Oh, no. 755 00:41:34,020 --> 00:41:35,380 I didn't get it for Christmas. 756 00:41:35,380 --> 00:41:36,740 It was actually crippling. 757 00:41:36,740 --> 00:41:38,420 Oh, no. 758 00:41:38,420 --> 00:41:41,820 It was called it was the putty color is what it was. 759 00:41:41,820 --> 00:41:45,500 And it was like a soft hat instead of like a firm. 760 00:41:45,500 --> 00:41:47,820 Damn. 761 00:41:47,820 --> 00:41:48,820 I think they have a soft. 762 00:41:48,820 --> 00:41:49,820 I thought they had a soft hat. 763 00:41:49,820 --> 00:41:50,820 Yeah, it was kind of like that. 764 00:41:50,820 --> 00:41:51,900 The ball cap. 765 00:41:51,900 --> 00:41:53,540 But it was something else. 766 00:41:53,540 --> 00:41:55,020 Or wait, feminine style. 767 00:41:55,020 --> 00:41:56,020 Wait, click on it. 768 00:41:56,020 --> 00:41:57,500 Oh, they still have it. 769 00:41:57,500 --> 00:41:59,460 OK, when I went on here, it was not there. 770 00:41:59,460 --> 00:42:00,460 I might as well just buy it. 771 00:42:00,460 --> 00:42:02,340 If I'm going to be so devastated by it. 772 00:42:02,340 --> 00:42:03,340 It's 25 bucks. 773 00:42:03,340 --> 00:42:04,900 It includes shipping and handling. 774 00:42:04,900 --> 00:42:07,420 Can you add to cart? 775 00:42:07,420 --> 00:42:09,300 Added to cart. 776 00:42:09,300 --> 00:42:13,260 So we may we may do a giveaway in the in the future with some of their swag because we 777 00:42:13,260 --> 00:42:14,980 really appreciate what they do. 778 00:42:14,980 --> 00:42:19,100 Yeah, they're simple and it's nice because you're supporting. 779 00:42:19,100 --> 00:42:20,100 Supporting the society. 780 00:42:20,100 --> 00:42:22,860 So I'm going to minimize and go back to my slides. 781 00:42:22,860 --> 00:42:26,180 And I just bought a book from them about Maine Lighthouses. 782 00:42:26,180 --> 00:42:30,260 And it's really nice because if you buy it off Amazon, it's a lot more expensive than 783 00:42:30,260 --> 00:42:34,620 it is on this website, which is normally not how it goes. 784 00:42:34,620 --> 00:42:35,620 Yep. 785 00:42:35,620 --> 00:42:37,660 Amazon, mark it up. 786 00:42:37,660 --> 00:42:38,660 Those turds. 787 00:42:38,660 --> 00:42:39,660 Bezos, you listener. 788 00:42:39,660 --> 00:42:40,660 Wouldn't that be so fun? 789 00:42:40,660 --> 00:42:41,660 He's like, how about a sponsorship? 790 00:42:41,660 --> 00:42:46,660 All right. 791 00:42:46,660 --> 00:42:47,580 We'd be living the dream. 792 00:42:47,580 --> 00:42:55,460 So they preserve the history of lighthouses in the United States better, more effectively, 793 00:42:55,460 --> 00:43:00,660 more intensely, more widespread than anyone else, any other body that I'm aware of. 794 00:43:00,660 --> 00:43:03,420 So this is some of their their current need. 795 00:43:03,420 --> 00:43:07,060 There's three hundred thirty four submissions they received recently on lighthouses that 796 00:43:07,060 --> 00:43:09,940 need funding. 797 00:43:09,940 --> 00:43:14,660 Five hundred plus log books to be digitized, which is, you know, ours. 798 00:43:14,660 --> 00:43:16,780 Yes, and ours. 799 00:43:16,780 --> 00:43:19,940 Eight hundred thousand lighthouse related images to be scanned. 800 00:43:19,940 --> 00:43:22,020 Think of all the cool pictures out there. 801 00:43:22,020 --> 00:43:28,660 And when you do send in your lighthouse related, especially like if you have pictures of like 802 00:43:28,660 --> 00:43:34,940 if your great grandpa was a lighthouse keeper and you have pictures of him, they they put 803 00:43:34,940 --> 00:43:40,140 underneath the photo who sent it in, like who who provided the photo to the Lighthouse 804 00:43:40,140 --> 00:43:41,140 Society. 805 00:43:41,140 --> 00:43:45,180 And then they also put who of the employees scanned it into the database. 806 00:43:45,180 --> 00:43:49,020 It's like a whole they have interns who do that, I believe. 807 00:43:49,020 --> 00:43:50,020 Yeah. 808 00:43:50,020 --> 00:43:51,020 So they still have volunteers. 809 00:43:51,020 --> 00:43:52,020 Yeah. 810 00:43:52,020 --> 00:43:53,020 Yeah. 811 00:43:53,020 --> 00:43:55,720 So they started out with Wayne, I think his wife helped a little bit. 812 00:43:55,720 --> 00:44:00,340 And then they had one full time employee after like there's three or four volunteers, including 813 00:44:00,340 --> 00:44:01,340 Wayne. 814 00:44:01,340 --> 00:44:02,340 Yeah. 815 00:44:02,340 --> 00:44:03,340 And I think it was the secretary. 816 00:44:03,340 --> 00:44:04,340 And it's like, we have an employee. 817 00:44:04,340 --> 00:44:05,340 Oh, then they moved. 818 00:44:05,340 --> 00:44:06,340 So it was from his house. 819 00:44:06,340 --> 00:44:10,220 They moved to an office space at that time and then office space. 820 00:44:10,220 --> 00:44:12,380 I want to say they moved again. 821 00:44:12,380 --> 00:44:16,060 And then now point out point is their official place. 822 00:44:16,060 --> 00:44:19,860 Pretty sure Wayne's retired. 823 00:44:19,860 --> 00:44:20,860 There's a board. 824 00:44:20,860 --> 00:44:21,860 It shows the board on the website. 825 00:44:21,860 --> 00:44:22,860 I didn't check it out. 826 00:44:22,860 --> 00:44:23,860 I probably should have. 827 00:44:23,860 --> 00:44:24,860 But that's right. 828 00:44:24,860 --> 00:44:25,860 So the point is that there's a need. 829 00:44:25,860 --> 00:44:30,460 And even if it's only a couple of dollars or if it's a passport book or something, check 830 00:44:30,460 --> 00:44:32,540 the website out. 831 00:44:32,540 --> 00:44:37,620 I really do think this is the best place to go, probably in the world for Lighthouse information. 832 00:44:37,620 --> 00:44:38,620 Yeah. 833 00:44:38,620 --> 00:44:42,980 At least from our perspective, anytime we do for in Lighthouses, it's so much harder 834 00:44:42,980 --> 00:44:46,900 to find the information because the US LHS is so good. 835 00:44:46,900 --> 00:44:48,700 The website is so good. 836 00:44:48,700 --> 00:44:53,020 And and my friends, which I'm sure uses the same basis of information. 837 00:44:53,020 --> 00:44:54,820 They do a great job. 838 00:44:54,820 --> 00:44:59,380 And Lighthearted podcast, the whole community is really great. 839 00:44:59,380 --> 00:45:04,820 And I think I read that the people who did Lighthouse Friends, I looked into it one time 840 00:45:04,820 --> 00:45:07,880 and they went to the Lighthouses and then wrote. 841 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,620 So like it wasn't all based on Internet research. 842 00:45:10,620 --> 00:45:12,740 It was like they did in depth hard work. 843 00:45:12,740 --> 00:45:14,140 I'll have to look at that again. 844 00:45:14,140 --> 00:45:15,140 But it's funny. 845 00:45:15,140 --> 00:45:19,460 I've seen some because I usually cite multiple sources just to make sure. 846 00:45:19,460 --> 00:45:23,020 And sometimes there's no Lighthouse Friends article. 847 00:45:23,020 --> 00:45:24,900 And so sometimes there's contradictions. 848 00:45:24,900 --> 00:45:26,460 And it's like, what it is. 849 00:45:26,460 --> 00:45:27,460 What happened? 850 00:45:27,460 --> 00:45:31,180 What was the story or how was it interpreted when someone read the logbook? 851 00:45:31,180 --> 00:45:33,040 So it's really interesting. 852 00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,740 This is the donation page on their site. 853 00:45:35,740 --> 00:45:38,820 Ten dollars is what they automatically ask for. 854 00:45:38,820 --> 00:45:40,460 And then if you want to, you can put it. 855 00:45:40,460 --> 00:45:42,500 I like that you can earmark it. 856 00:45:42,500 --> 00:45:43,500 Point Wilson Lighthouse. 857 00:45:43,500 --> 00:45:46,180 That was that beautiful image we saw. 858 00:45:46,180 --> 00:45:47,940 You can specify where you want your money to go. 859 00:45:47,940 --> 00:45:48,940 Is that what you can? 860 00:45:48,940 --> 00:45:49,940 Yep. 861 00:45:49,940 --> 00:45:53,500 Unrestricted or you can specify if you want to make your donation with a check. 862 00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:55,060 Some people like to do that. 863 00:45:55,060 --> 00:46:03,340 U.S. Lighthouse Society 9005 Point No Point Road, Northeast Hansville, Hansville, Washington, 864 00:46:03,340 --> 00:46:04,340 98340. 865 00:46:04,340 --> 00:46:05,340 They have questions. 866 00:46:05,340 --> 00:46:07,340 They have a phone call. 867 00:46:07,340 --> 00:46:08,700 You can or phone number you can call. 868 00:46:08,700 --> 00:46:10,260 They've got an email. 869 00:46:10,260 --> 00:46:13,060 So they do a great job. 870 00:46:13,060 --> 00:46:15,260 This is Point No Point. 871 00:46:15,260 --> 00:46:18,600 So that's the lighthouse that's next to the headquarters. 872 00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,340 It's a really pretty area. 873 00:46:21,340 --> 00:46:22,580 There is one step back. 874 00:46:22,580 --> 00:46:26,220 You can see the Keepers Quarters, which is looks in great shape. 875 00:46:26,220 --> 00:46:28,460 Yeah, it's a duplex. 876 00:46:28,460 --> 00:46:31,180 And then that one, I just forgot the name. 877 00:46:31,180 --> 00:46:32,180 Wilson. 878 00:46:32,180 --> 00:46:33,180 Point Wilson, I believe. 879 00:46:33,180 --> 00:46:34,180 It's this one. 880 00:46:34,180 --> 00:46:39,100 And it's, you know, it's covered in birds, pink sky. 881 00:46:39,100 --> 00:46:40,500 But it is so pretty. 882 00:46:40,500 --> 00:46:41,500 Yeah, birds are hanging out. 883 00:46:41,500 --> 00:46:43,660 It's right on the water as well. 884 00:46:43,660 --> 00:46:44,660 As per usual. 885 00:46:44,660 --> 00:46:45,660 As per usual. 886 00:46:45,660 --> 00:46:52,220 USLHS, the USLHE, the establishment, the service, the whole thing tied up. 887 00:46:52,220 --> 00:46:55,380 I wanted to kind of clarify today and then talk about the society. 888 00:46:55,380 --> 00:46:59,340 So USLHE has its own long history. 889 00:46:59,340 --> 00:47:06,460 And even from 1934 and on is the military, the Coast Guard, I should say history would 890 00:47:06,460 --> 00:47:07,800 be really interesting to dive into. 891 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:08,900 So we might do that in the future. 892 00:47:08,900 --> 00:47:12,820 But for now, thank you to the society and a quick coverage. 893 00:47:12,820 --> 00:47:13,820 Yes, thank you. 894 00:47:13,820 --> 00:47:14,820 So much fun. 895 00:47:14,820 --> 00:47:17,980 Do you have any other questions or things you wanted to point out? 896 00:47:17,980 --> 00:47:18,980 That's it. 897 00:47:18,980 --> 00:47:21,180 I kind of just put it in every time I had something. 898 00:47:21,180 --> 00:47:23,180 That's what we do here. 899 00:47:23,180 --> 00:47:28,780 I'm usually not that way, but I will be for Lighthouses. 900 00:47:28,780 --> 00:47:32,460 Well, yeah, check us out on YouTube. 901 00:47:32,460 --> 00:47:33,460 Check us out on LinkedIn. 902 00:47:33,460 --> 00:47:35,660 We're very near 300 followers. 903 00:47:35,660 --> 00:47:36,900 You could be the 300th. 904 00:47:36,900 --> 00:47:39,060 Yeah, we're close on Instagram as well. 905 00:47:39,060 --> 00:47:40,060 So how's Instagram doing? 906 00:47:40,060 --> 00:47:41,060 I haven't been on there. 907 00:47:41,060 --> 00:47:42,060 It's pretty good. 908 00:47:42,060 --> 00:47:43,580 We're actually having some good growth. 909 00:47:43,580 --> 00:47:49,180 And there's been lots of people leaving reviews on our on Apple and on our website. 910 00:47:49,180 --> 00:47:51,980 And we've been getting voice mails and emails from people. 911 00:47:51,980 --> 00:47:53,380 Oh my gosh, we've got to catch up. 912 00:47:53,380 --> 00:47:54,380 It's so much fun. 913 00:47:54,380 --> 00:47:58,860 Well, if you've listened this far, you're one of the MVP's and we thank you very much. 914 00:47:58,860 --> 00:48:00,220 We love you guys. 915 00:48:00,220 --> 00:48:19,780 So we'll see you next time on the Lighthouse Lowdown.