1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Hi everyone. I'm Emily. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,000 And I'm Vince. 3 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,000 And this is the Lighthouse Lowdown. 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,000 You have a different tone there. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,000 I know. Sometimes I want to switch it up, but 6 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,000 I should probably say the same. 7 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,000 No, welcome to the Lowdown. 8 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:26,000 I have a good appreciation now for the fact that we can just play the sound through our interface. 9 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:32,000 I mean, I know it's been like years or something, like a year since we got this, but 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:41,000 how nice that I don't have to add it in afterwards and we can just like chat while it fades out. 11 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Coffee's hitting. 12 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:43,000 What are you going to say? 13 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:48,000 People may not know that I can just push a button and then keep talking through it. 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,000 It's not like... 15 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,000 I add it in later. 16 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Which a lot of people have to do. 17 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,000 So it's nice. We're like pro. 18 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,000 We're like mid-tier podcasters. 19 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Yes. 20 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Equipment-wise. 21 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Welcome to the show. 22 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Welcome everybody. 23 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,000 I am doing a listener lighthouse today. 24 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:12,000 So if you send in a lighthouse for us to cover, it gets added to our list. 25 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:17,000 And I've decided the next two episodes are going to be solely from that list. 26 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Nice. 27 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,000 And that's what we're doing today. 28 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:21,000 I do have a history of buoy. 29 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:28,000 It's not what I wanted it to be because this is coming out the week of Thanksgiving. 30 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,000 So Thanksgiving's on Thursday. 31 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,000 It's coming out on Monday. 32 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:38,000 So I wanted to do how did keepers spend Thanksgiving at lighthouses. 33 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:48,000 But unfortunately, you know, like most keepers, they got like a stipend to supply their own food 34 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,000 because they lived in a town, most of them. 35 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:56,000 And there's a lot of offshore lighthouses that would still get shipments in of food or like food delivered to them specifically. 36 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:05,000 You know how in the past we talked about like early on keepers would get like 20 pounds of onions or something. 37 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Yeah. 200 pounds of pork. 38 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Yeah. So I thought that they would have something like that, but I didn't find it. 39 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:16,000 So this kind of turned into like specific events at lighthouses during Thanksgiving. 40 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Like I picked the good ones because we know that there's lots of bad Thanksgiving's at lighthouses. 41 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Actually, it made me think of we covered the wreck of the Isador. 42 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,000 The Isador. You remember the Isador? 43 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:36,000 I can't remember. Isador. Isador. 44 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,000 And that happened on Thanksgiving. 45 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,000 And actually, which was funny, I was trying to I was like, I'm pretty sure I said it happened on Thanksgiving. 46 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:47,000 So I looked it up and it left out of the port that I'm covering today. 47 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,000 No way. How weird is that? 48 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,000 We're at. We're at. We're at. 49 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Elsa, you're right. That is weird. 50 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Yeah. But I'm not going to tell you until I'm done with my history buoy. Slow down. 51 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,000 OK. So, yeah, I'm just going to do a couple of stories. 52 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 So it'll be a little bit of reading, but I thought it would be fun. 53 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:10,000 So offshore lighthouses often would write letters to newspapers at like their local or like at the mainland 54 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,000 so that people knew what was going on at the lighthouses because they would never know, 55 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,000 like especially the ones that are like 20 miles offshore. Oh, yeah. 56 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Never going to see them. But the Rockland. Is it courier? 57 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Like a courier courier. Someone who carries messages. Yeah. Courier. 58 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,000 I've never challenged my own pronunciation. I know. 59 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,000 Well, it's usually a word you read like there's a carrier pigeon. 60 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:40,000 But a courier is a person like on a bike, a bike messenger. 61 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Yeah. Or with a boat courier courier. Gosh. 62 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,000 I'm just going to say courier. Yes. 63 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:53,000 The Rockland Courier Gazette received a letter in 1925 from. Oh, no, I didn't look this one up. 64 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Spit it out. Geez. Spit it. 65 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Spit it out. Matt. Mattinicus. Mattinicus. 66 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:13,000 That's how it's spelled anyway. Rock Light saying, quote, Thanksgiving, 67 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:19,000 we were all present at roll call when Mrs. Hilt, who was the headkeeper's wife, 68 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:25,000 sounded the gong at 12 sharp and all gathered around the dining table loaded down with goodies prepared by the housewives. 69 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Quite needless to say, it was a jolly party for the remainder of the day and evening. 70 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Everyone joined in playing games and the phonograph wasn't idle. Nice. 71 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:42,000 The phonograph like 1925 seems late in my head for a phonograph. 72 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Like by then we had what's a phonograph? It's the you know, you play records and oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. 73 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,000 20s. I think that's accurate. Yeah, probably. They were well developed by that time. 74 00:04:52,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Like they were I think covering lighthouses has stunted my like my idea of how old things are. 75 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Because a lot of times we're talking about lighthouses being built in like mid eighteen hundreds. 76 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:10,000 And so then I think the lines are getting blurred for me for technology. 77 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:17,000 I think Jamie at work told me the other day optimists are always late 78 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:23,000 because I think about where I'm going to go and what I'm going to do. And that's one of the reasons I'm always late everywhere I go. 79 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:28,000 So I'm like, oh, yeah, it'll be right downstairs. That's five minutes. Definitely true. 80 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,000 It took me that long to process what. And here's where we're tied back. 81 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:38,000 I'm not just having a schizophrenic break right now. Schizophrenic. Also, sorry, everyone. 82 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:43,000 Also, looking at history, we learn about technology. 83 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:47,000 We learn about this is when this happened, this and this happened in this year. 84 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:55,000 What else happened? And it frames it. And so as we've I mean, I have history in public school growing up, 85 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,000 but I really enjoyed American history and some world history. 86 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:06,000 But it's so just a speck of dust on the event. Like, what was the Coliseum like? Oh, like that was a day. 87 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:13,000 History. I find history really I mean, so we have a historical podcast kind of shows. 88 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,000 But we're talking mostly about late 1800s to early 1900s. Yeah. 89 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:23,000 So that hundred years and even in there, my mind is blown on how things have changed. 90 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,000 And then I think about today and I'm like, yeah, nothing's changing today compared to back then. 91 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:32,000 But that's actually inversely true. Yeah. The change today is exponential. 92 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:39,000 So technologies and now we've got robotic dogs guarding people's houses with machine guns and flamethrowers. 93 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Oh, what is this in reference to? I'm just saying, like, that's crazy. 94 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:50,000 What makes you do we have one of those? Not us. We don't. But the American has them. 95 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Yeah. Chinese also. They released this is totally off topic. That's OK. 96 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 They released a video. I don't know who they are. OK. OK. 97 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:03,000 I saw a video of a Chinese robotic dog, which we have had like Boston Dynamics. 98 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Yeah. Really well known for their instruments. 99 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:10,000 They've had that for a couple of years, that type of technology in better and better development, like doing gymnastics. 100 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Oh, yeah. Crazy robotics and controls. 101 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Now, the Chinese, some Chinese company has one that has a wheeled feet. Oh, gosh. 102 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Like four or five inch wheels. And they show it going through a forest like a forest at like 20 miles an hour. 103 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Oh, like terrifying jumping, going over rocks around trees. 104 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:37,000 And it has a machine gun. It has like a six barrel like I'm telling you, machine gun war these days would be terrifying. 105 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,000 The top comment was like, imagine being chased by this. 106 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:48,000 And someone said, I always pick the bear. It's like, oh, no. It's scary. 107 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:56,000 But yeah, although the to go back to the topic. OK. Think about beacon technology, lighting technology. 108 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Yeah, I think maybe it's oversimplified because that's how history is. We can't know everything. 109 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:09,000 But as we look back, there's X number of years of this style of beacon and then the Fresnel lens development and then this style of fuel was adopted. 110 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:14,000 And they're like, there's a lot to know in the history of lighting and beacons today. 111 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:26,000 We don't there's not even a thought of like, what do people use? It's how many technologies are in place for lighting and bleeding edge, new things all the way down to what's built into your cell phone, 112 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:36,000 which when I was in school and I'm still kind of a young person, my teachers, probably like yours, said, you're never going to have a calculator everywhere you go. 113 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Hello, built in. You have a calculator with our first phones. We didn't even have flashlights on them. 114 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Yeah. Or it was a big deal to make it like when it got a text, you light up the flashlight to show off you have a flashlight or your phone fell on the couch. 115 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,000 I forgot about that. Like I was like your flashlight would flash. 116 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Not only do we have a calculator in our pocket, we have more technology than all of the breaking it breaking lighthouses, the best lighthouses in all of history, let alone the computer that sent rockets men to the moon. 117 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:17,000 Yeah, not rocket. You know, the whole package, but also rockets, but just and then we just, you know, watch Tick Tock or we're like, what's the weather today? Yeah. 118 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:25,000 Imagine how do I get from here to there? I was just thinking the other day about how crazy maps used to be. 119 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:29,000 And like, if you didn't know your way around, it was actually terrifying. 120 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Like you can just go to a new town and just be like, I just put it into my phone. If you get lost, like you're actually in trouble. Touch people. Yeah. Trust people. That's kind of how maybe the world is going downhill. 121 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Maybe we should get back on track. 122 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:57,000 I was just like, wow, you've really. Everybody who's watching and listening coffee is excellent. Yeah. And it's also Saturday morning so we have a lot to live for. 123 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Okay. The second. 124 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:10,000 The second story is from 1910 Boone Island light had an eventful night before Thanksgiving. Yes, I'm sorry. I haven't turned her up. 125 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,000 But it's relevant. It's relevant. My hand is up. 126 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:26,000 You said on the first story, she rang a gong. Yeah. And then people came for dinner. I don't know. Do you think that's because they couldn't ring a triangle or a bell or yell because there's like those mean other things because someone's yelling. 127 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,000 They need help. So this rock. 128 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,000 From what I've gathered was very. 129 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:42,000 It was like in the middle of the ocean, like no obstructions at all. Often had a gong. So like I think it was extremely windy. 130 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:55,000 And so maybe they needed a loud sound in order to gather people on the island. Yeah, but I'm saying they wouldn't want to mistake it for a fog signal. Oh, or any other auditory signal that they would have. 131 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:05,000 Yeah, maybe that light station. I bet it was just some kind of fun, goofy like dinner and was it a gong or was it like a pot, you know? 132 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Yeah, maybe it's a metaphorical gong. Maybe they were just like she told us to come to dinner. She rang the gong and we're like, what kind of gone? 133 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:26,000 I think it's zeroed in. But yeah, so I'm sorry. I heard that there was lots of people like he said housewives. There was like several families and one time one of them had like 14 children or something at a time. 134 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:32,000 So like, I mean, what else are you doing? Well, we'll have to cover that light because that sounds kind of insane. 135 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Like a whole town on one little rock. 136 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:48,000 So anyway, Boone Island, we're going to Boone Island. So I'm going to read here, quote, the holiday was approaching and I think this is from like a I linked it in my show notes, but it's from a website. 137 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:56,000 So it's quoting from website. The holiday was approaching and as nobody had been ashore for several weeks, they had gone down very close to nothing in the hearty line. 138 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Basically, they don't have like a lot of food left. Oh, no. He keeper Williams was standing just inside the light tower on the evening before Thanksgiving and wondering what he and the boys were going to have the next day for the 139 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:14,000 for the holiday. Sorry, it says repast repast. 140 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,000 That is probably an old word. I don't know. Yeah. 141 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Suddenly, without any warning, he heard a terrific blow struck against the deck, anxious to find out 142 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:33,000 that I'm sorry that thought went through my head like that pause where it's pause and then say deck is going to sound edited. 143 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:46,000 There's a lot of like things when I'm editing. I'm like that sounds edited because we have really nice headphones. Yeah, nice microphones. It sounds like I cut something out and then said, sorry, anxious to find out just what had happened. 144 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:57,000 He went outside and they're laying on the deck were four pair of black duck dead as a doornail, thinking that it took more than just that to make such a thump. He went around the base of the tower among the rocks. 145 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:08,000 He found four more. The birds were in unusual fine condition and he and the boys had some Thanksgiving dinner for which they were only too glad to give thanks to the creator for remembering them at such a time. 146 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:17,000 So I just like this. You're saying I'm going to call them a murder because I don't know what they're called a murder of ducks flock. You just say flock. That makes sense. 147 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:24,000 The birds. Yeah, but so are crows. Anyways, a flock of ducks. 148 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Accidentally flew into the light tower with such speed that they died. Yes, or at least they appear to be dead as a doornail quote. 149 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Eight, which yeah, which was not abnormal. Like Bert ducks often died. But yeah, eight is kind of shocking. And just as he was like, oh crap, what are we going to eat tomorrow? 150 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:57,000 It's like, oh, here's a bunch of ducks. Black ducks is interesting. I've never heard of black ducks. Probably don't have them here in the Midwest. 151 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Yeah, I don't know. Ducks. I don't know my ducks. Sure. The coast is a different story. Also ducks flying far out in the ocean. 152 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:19,000 I don't know that. I thought they were lake. I thought so too. But we're also not near water. So yeah, we don't know these things. It is interesting. We're so far from water. We don't even know what kind of birds live over there. 153 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:35,000 We're like, oh, we got seagulls and like albatross and pass that. I'm like, there are no birds. That's why when we're on vacation, we go to these lighthouse locations. We're like in awe as we wait for dinner at some like roadside shack. 154 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:47,000 Like, wow, look at the water because what's so normal to somebody else is just a novel to us. Like if I saw black ducks, I'd be like, are those ducks? Cool. 155 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Yeah. So that was the story of Boone Island. I think they had a pretty rough conditions out there too. Obviously, weather so bad they can't even get more food. Yeah, that's scary. 156 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:02,000 And I'm pretty sure. 157 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:13,000 So I also have one from Tillamook Rock and then I'll be done. But Tillamook Rock we tried to cover for like our second episode or something. But it was ambitious. We weren't recording. It was tragic. 158 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:26,000 But Tillamook Rock, it sounds like only one keeper got to go home for Thanksgiving and the rest of them had to stay out there. Tillamook was one of those places where they shipped stuff to there. 159 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:41,000 You know, like to the yeah, like a lighthouse tinder or something would bring out food. And so it looks like they actually got a Thanksgiving shipment for that. And I wish it had specified what it was going to be. But it was definitely used to have turkey. 160 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:53,000 So in 1913, the weather was too poor for them to deliver this shipment and quote, the holiday looked bleak for the keepers who wondered what they had to be thankful for in such dismal conditions. 161 00:15:53,000 --> 00:16:00,000 Not only would they be without their families, they'd missed the traditional feast. No turkey would be enjoyed on Tillamook Rock. 162 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:06,000 Just when things looked their worst, two ducks crashed into the lantern and fell dead on the metal gallery. 163 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:14,000 The keepers wasted no time preparing the birds for dinner and enjoyed roasted duck for their Thanksgiving meal, truly thankful for the gift from heaven, which fell at just the right time. 164 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:18,000 So here's the question. Seems to be a common theme. That's incredible. 165 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Here's the question. Were men more capable back then? Yes. And they all knew how to take a duck from the dead deck to dinner. 166 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:40,000 I just I was just thinking and you'll hear about it later in this episode. More capable, all subject to stuff. Or did they pick men for lighthouse keepers? 167 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:49,000 I can't believe you interrupt me. You interrupt me. Who were these type of dudes? Oh, that's good. Like gruff necks. 168 00:16:49,000 --> 00:17:01,000 I think you're right that and that's another episode I want to do is what qualified you to be a lighthouse keeper. And a lot of lighthouse keepers, especially like today, I'm going to mention it. 169 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:14,000 They kept animals. And so a lot of them had experience. Livestock. Yeah. Not pets. Keeping livestock and like chickens and things. 170 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:26,000 I don't know if that made you qualified, but I think keepers didn't used to be engineers or like people who knew how to work the foghorn and stuff, because they didn't have that kind of stuff at the very beginning. 171 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:41,000 So I don't know. Yeah. A lot of early, early lighthouse keepers. They talked about where they keep their animals and well, and the women who took over a lot of those roles as we've learned your history and they were head keepers and their assistants. 172 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:53,000 They weren't like, oh, well, I guess I'll have to leave. Like, yeah, they all knew all the skills because they were around, whether they brought those skills with them or they learned them at the lighthouse. Right. That's crazy. Cool. 173 00:17:53,000 --> 00:18:03,000 That was my last story. Very cool. What a nice story. Kind of boring. But I mean, a lot of keepers didn't get the chance to celebrate. And there's all these stories of rescues. 174 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:23,000 And like, if you look up Thanksgiving at lighthouses, most of them are like crazy rescues that happened and shipwrecks and things. Yeah. So maybe take this time to be thankful this Thanksgiving that you're not a lighthouse keeper diving into icy cold waters to save shipwrecked people and probably dying yourself. 175 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Possibly. It's possible. 176 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:39,000 And that's my history. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Happy Thanksgiving. It was interesting. I like that a lot. Good. We haven't had one like that in a while. I believe this is a trumpet. There. Everything on the screen is actually a trumpet. 177 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:44,000 Oh, gosh, our avid listeners will know what Vince is talking about. 178 00:18:44,000 --> 00:19:02,000 Moving on our lighthouse of the day to listener lighthouse. Like I said, thank you to Heather and I believe it's pronounced Gwyn for sending this one in. And by the way, if you type this lighthouse into Google, it shows you the wrong lighthouse. 179 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:26,000 Like, you know how it kind of cycles through pictures. Yeah, it shows you the wrong lighthouse. And that's because it's like house recovering is Goat Island light. And there's a lighthouse called Newport Harbor light, which has goats can also be called Goat Island light or green light, allegedly, if I remember correctly. 180 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:43,000 And that one's in Rhode Island. So it's not the official name of the lighthouse. But Google put those images right in there. It's also a cool one. So maybe we'll cover that one later, too. But this one is in Maine, the coast of southern Maine, east of the Kinnebunk River in 181 00:19:43,000 --> 00:20:00,000 Porpoise Bay, which is like a small group of islands and rock ledges. This is not far from Germany, right? How did you know that by Kennebunk, Kinnebunk? Well, just the south of Maine. Kinnebunk. Oh, my gosh. Hold on one second. 182 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:11,000 I seem to remember he was near Portsmouth. Oh, yeah, it is just north of that. Portsmouth is just on the other side of the border of Maine. 183 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:19,000 So, yeah, and I see Kinnebunk. I see it on the map. Okay. Kinnebunk port. Yeah, not far. Thank you. You're welcome. 184 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:33,000 Shout out to Jeremy. Yeah. Goat Island is about a mile offshore and about three and a half acres in size. So it's a good little island. It's not like the other ones we're talking about out in the middle of the ocean, rock and, you know, the wind. 185 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:56,000 This is I feel a nice spot to be stationed. In 1831, Congress appropriated $6,000 for a lighthouse in or around the bay, and the island was purchased from Adam McCulloch for $300 and a 20-foot rubble stone tower and dwelling were built and lit in 1833. 186 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:06,000 You can see from this, if you listen to our previous episodes, who built this, you can tell right away. 187 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Oh, no. So, its fate is sealed by who built it. I'll tell you though. It wasn't our last episode, was it? Two episodes ago? I never can be quoted accurately on that. Okay, because you went last. 188 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:36,000 So it had to have been at least two episodes ago. These guys knew how to pose though. My question is if they're doing that for scale or probably like we are for people that can't see we got one guy standing on the gallery, which is, which is normal. 189 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:44,000 And we got one guy standing on the roof of the conjoining walkway. Why are you standing on the roof? 190 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:57,000 I don't know. It's got to be, maybe he didn't stand out enough in the photo against the walkway because it's dark. And so he's like, I'll just stand on the roof. 191 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,000 I don't know. Pretty cool though. Cool photo. 192 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:16,000 So this was built by Winslow Lewis. So you can tell that by 1842, it was in very poor shape when IWP Lewis made his report that we talked about in that episode as well. 193 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Noted the tower was quote, laid up in lime mortar of bad quality with a loose and leaky roof and decaying woodwork. And given that only $27,000, $2700 of the $6,000 budget was used, they kind of got what they paid for on that as well. 194 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:43,000 Never take the low bid. If they think it's going to take $6,000 to build, they're probably going to be closer to $6,000. Less than half, that's pretty bad. 195 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:56,000 It's not good. The second keeper Hutchins noted that the condensation was so bad in the lantern room that he had to wipe the lens off three times per night, which there should be no water in there. 196 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:05,000 That's the thing is like you shouldn't have to wipe off the lens of water. Your thing should be sealed appropriately because you know it's near water. 197 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Well, the lens is also warm. So yeah, if you're wiping off a warm lens, then it should be. That's a ton of compensation. Yeah, and this wasn't a Fresnel lens at that time. So yeah, we've got open flame, there should be no water. 198 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:40,000 And he also said the walls of the dwelling were so cracked that he couldn't live there in the winter. I'm like, where would you go? Like the keepers house was built the same time as the tower. They both stunk. There were no outbuildings. So where the heck did you go to the bathroom? Probably a pale and you threw it on the window. 199 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:55,000 He had a boat but no boathouse and animals with no barn. Though he said he paid $6 a year to the previous keeper, the first keeper here to rent a building that he built himself on the island. We've seen that once before. Yeah. Yeah, we've mentioned that. 200 00:23:55,000 --> 00:24:16,000 That was a while ago. So I don't know which lighthouse but it happens. So 1857 the order was made to rebuild the light quote as rapidly as the means will permit. So it's obviously in really bad shape. Tower was rebuilt as a 25 foot brick cylinder tower. So instead of having this conical shape, yeah, no taper. It's just straight up and down. 201 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:45,000 Connected to the existing keepers dwelling by walkway like the previous tower. So which is nice. We like to keep that. And it also got a fifth order for Nellyn's. Keeping up with the times. Looks much better. Yeah. New picture up. Looks sturdier. It looks like a hard ground to build on. Yeah, it's all just loose rock. For some reason I see trees in the background. So for some reason I thought this was more of a green way out there. Yeah. Yeah. Or maybe that's the shore or something. I don't know. It's not that far. 202 00:24:46,000 --> 00:25:05,000 From the mainland. So yeah, they gave it a good coat of paint and got a new lens in there. All good things. The house looks the same. So yeah, the house stayed. Yeah. And just probably did some like renovation on it. Gosh, these are such small quarters to live in permanently. I know other guys. 203 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:25,000 And usually with your families too, only in like some cases was it a stag light where you could only have the keepers living there and then your families would live on the mainland. That was also sad reading about Thanksgiving instances where it's like, oh, like at Tillamook Rock, you don't get your families. It's kind of sad. 204 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:46,000 Haven't seen him in 20 years. No. So this lighthouse, like most lighthouses, had a wonderful repertoire with the town, the townspeople. Between 1865 and 1920, 46 vessels wrecked near the lighthouse, with 28 of those being total losses. 205 00:25:46,000 --> 00:26:01,000 And nobody died because the keepers at this lighthouse were so vigilant that they always caught it early enough and then like called the mainland and rode out and actually helped. They're good lifesavers. Yes. But the signal's not so good. 206 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:17,000 It's just that I'll pull up a picture later after this one that I think shows the islands pretty well. It's just like a lot of islands. Okay. Unavoidable. Yeah. So I think it's just really difficult even now to sail in to the port. 207 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:36,000 And like recently they put in, they had one marker of like how to sneak into the bay. And then on their Facebook, on this lighthouse's Facebook, they put like very excitedly that the second one had been placed, which made it like a channel that you pass through. 208 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:52,000 And so even now it's a struggle to even be on the water around there. So crazy. Obviously a good place for a lighthouse, but it wasn't. It's hard. You can't have a lighthouse on every spot. Yeah. There's danger because it's difficult. 209 00:26:52,000 --> 00:27:10,000 So anyway, nobody died. George Wakefield was the 12th keeper at the light and passed away there in 1921 after 33 years of service. The town remembered him quote for his unusual care and watchfulness, which saved lives because he was able to act quickly to bring rescue to sinking vessels. 210 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:23,000 And this was true for a lot of the keepers at the station. So much so that in 1976, the locals petitioned to keep the Coast Guard from automating the station, which already would have been a little late. 76 is late. 211 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:34,000 The local fishermen said quote, you're damn right. We fought for the light. That lighthouse just isn't something for the tourists to gawk at. There's a man up there and we know he watches out for us. A machine can't do that. 212 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:49,000 And quote. So obviously they felt very strongly about that. And if you think about how many lives they saved just from being up there, like it's true. You can't automate someone keeping an eye out for like people like that. 213 00:27:49,000 --> 00:28:06,000 So the Coast Guard listened and it remained staffed until 1990, which is the last light in Maine to be automated and the last in the US behind Boston Harbor Light. So this was the second to last lighthouse in the US to be automated. 214 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:18,000 That's incredible. Very cool. 1990. Yeah, that's five years later. Patrick Mahomes, Post Malone and Vincent Bailey. We were all born. 215 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,000 What a good world became a better place. 216 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,000 Only missed only miss this on my five years. 217 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:33,000 After automation, the Fresnel lens was replaced with a modern optic and became began having island caretakers after the station was leased to the 218 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:51,000 Kennebunk Port Conservation Trust in 1992. Okay, nice. So 1994, the caretaker was Richard Dick Curtis, known for his jokes, smiles and laughter. And he continued in his role through the trust receiving the title through the Maine lives program 1998. 219 00:28:51,000 --> 00:29:04,000 So 2002, Curtis fell overboard and drowned while out on a boat in the harbor. It's interesting to hear about it happening. 220 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:11,000 In modern day. Yeah, that's post 9-11. Exactly. That's crazy. 221 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:24,000 The caretaker after him Scott Dombrovsky, who is still there today, believes, like many other locals that Curtis's spirit still resides on the island. And I'll give you some examples. 222 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:31,000 It wasn't the first one to die there though. No. Okay. There was the there was one other guy in 1921, I believe. 223 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:41,000 This guy is stuck around, which is also strange. It's like a modern day haunting. Yeah, this is the recent history. Yeah, this is the one I should have covered for Halloween. 224 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:46,000 Instead, I'm doing it for Thanksgiving. 225 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,000 Oh, very fast. 226 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,000 I was ready to write out the entire sound effect. 227 00:29:52,000 --> 00:30:04,000 Anyway, shortly after Curtis's death, a woman on a tour said to Scott that the place was haunted and she had a message from Curtis, quote, that he was all right and that he was going to make his presence known. 228 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:09,000 End quote. I would be like, no, no, that's okay. Please move on. That's all right. 229 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:15,000 I've got to go. Go live your best afterlife. 230 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:23,000 So at that point, items had started to go missing on the island and would eventually turn up always on the kitchen table. 231 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:30,000 This is something Scott would say that like if he missed play something, it would always show up on the kitchen table. That's scary. Very spooky. 232 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:39,000 And then one day, Dombrowski remembers, quote, it was cold and I was exhausted. So I sat in Dick's easy chair and said, Dicky, give me some heat. 233 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:44,000 There was an old electric heater that hadn't worked for years. And at that moment, it turned on. 234 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,000 I was like, no. 235 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:55,000 I'd be like, ah, would you keep the ghost chair around? I don't know if I could. Well, if you think I have a bunch of my grandma stuff. 236 00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:01,000 Yeah, but she didn't die in, I guess he didn't die in his chair. 237 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:07,000 I don't know where I was going with that. If somebody died in a chair. Yes, I would get rid of the chair. 238 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:16,000 If you left the chair there after your death, I may use the chair. Yeah. Yep. 239 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:22,000 Unless it's haunted, which this appears to be in 2007, they began having problems with the foghorn. 240 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:28,000 And at this point, the foghorn was automated or like automatic. Yeah. 241 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:35,000 And so it's like a little less. A little less spooky because it could be like problems, but I'll go on with it. 242 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:40,000 Goat Island had a great view of Walker's Point. You know what that is? 243 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:45,000 No, actually, it's where President George W. Bush had his estate. Oh, yeah. 244 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:53,000 And because of this view, the Secret Service men were often stationed there during the presidency of George H.W. Bush because they could see the estate from Goat Island. 245 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,000 Oh, I actually have this where I have a picture. That's so funny. 246 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:01,000 So there's a red pin on Walker's Point and then you can see Goat Island by lighthouse over here. 247 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,000 So it's still a pretty good distance. And I don't know what's going on with Bumpkin Island. Bumpkin Island. 248 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:10,000 I don't want to use. They don't probably they probably don't like the name Bumpkin. Yes. 249 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:15,000 And in this picture, you can see all of the island in the shallow water that I was talking about. 250 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,000 I'm surprised the Secret Service like someone going to launch a rocket. Yeah. 251 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:23,000 What are they going to do? It must just be like surveillance or something. I don't even know. 252 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:29,000 It's so far away because the lighthouse is high. Maybe they went up to the gallery and they're like, yep, only 25 still there. 253 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,000 Yeah. But yeah, on the waterfront, 25 feet is pretty good. 254 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:42,000 Yeah. Anyway, it's interesting. In 2007, Scott said, quote, quote, Bush Senior came on his boat and took pictures. 255 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:50,000 Then he brought his son and President Putin and said there's something going on at that time around for a long time. 256 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:57,000 Yeah. But what was the first Bush? I think he's dead. Yeah. From old age. I think so. 257 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:07,000 And Bush W. Junior is he was president when I was a kid. Is the current President Putin the same dictator? 258 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:13,000 Wow. Interesting. Bush said, see, our people want us to work together. 259 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:17,000 Scott asked out loud because he lives at the lighthouse. 260 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:23,000 He said, quote, Hey, Dick, what do you think of that? And the foghorn, which have been quiet, suddenly sounded. 261 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:27,000 And since then, the foghorn would sound more often even on clear days. 262 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:32,000 And they were getting complaints from people around there because it's like, why is the foghorn going off? 263 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,000 If there's no fog, it should be like accurate warnings. 264 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:45,000 So then they tested like new signals, like they added new signals and then they disconnected power altogether and it still went off. 265 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:51,000 Yep. That's where it's spooky. And then they replaced the entire foghorn and it stopped doing it. 266 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,000 That's crazy. Yeah. We had that at a house. 267 00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:00,000 We had a doorbell that would ring and then we discovered that because our house was haunted. 268 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,000 We discovered that it was totally disconnected. And yet somehow it would still ring. 269 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:07,000 That's what you get for being rich. We were renting the house. 270 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,000 Oh, what? I thought this was your White House. No, no, no. This is in Colorado. 271 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:15,000 Oh, because the White House would have been spookier because it's so like big and vast. 272 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,000 Yeah. This is this. Yeah. This is in Colorado. 273 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,000 So what kind of house did you have in Colorado? Dad moved a couple of times. 274 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:26,000 I know. I'm just saying like was it was a big house. OK. Big like bigger than the White House. 275 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,000 Yeah, because you had a ranch on it. No different house. What? 276 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:38,000 This is in town in Pueblo, Colorado. Oh, and we rented the house. 277 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:44,000 It had like a mother's quarters in the basement. So my dad like let his partner at work, 278 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:50,000 like his co-workers mom live in our basement. Wilma, she's from the South. 279 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:55,000 She's a lot of fun. The point is the house is so big that we had two separate residences. 280 00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:01,000 Oh, never saw unless we like intentionally went to hang out. Yeah. Never saw that lady. 281 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:05,000 This was an old house, old house, sounding mother's quarters. 282 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:11,000 Like, what is that? Supposedly, the guy who owned it was gay because there's lots of gay art that was there. 283 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:18,000 We moved in. OK. He died in the house. Oh, so that's the we suspect he was the one who was haunting the house. 284 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,000 He never did anything harmful. He would like set off. We had motion sensors. 285 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,000 He would set those off at nighttime. No one was out there. 286 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:31,000 The doorbell rang a couple of times and we were all home and we went to the front door. 287 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,000 No one was there. And then we called and they discovered that the doorbell. 288 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,000 They're like, you must be hearing something else because this is not connected. 289 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,000 They showed us the wires were never completed. 290 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,000 Like they were not they were not landed on any electrical source. Oh, my gosh. 291 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:51,000 So that was interesting. And then my dad one time had coffee. 292 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,000 And if it was just this story, everyone be like, you just forgot, right? 293 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,000 He had coffee. He just made it. It was too hot to drink. 294 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:03,000 So he put it on his desk and I went and got ready and put clothes on, came back and the coffee was gone. 295 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:08,000 But the cup was totally clean. Like, you know, ring in the bottom. 296 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:12,000 I know there's less than I remember. It's as if he never made the coffee. 297 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,000 So we went back to the coffee machine and he had made the coffee. 298 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,000 My dad has a fancy coffee machine. Yeah. So like. 299 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:23,000 Do you put the mug somewhere else? Did you have a mental break? 300 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:27,000 Like, what did the ghost drink coffee? Yeah, maybe he was like, thank God. 301 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,000 And nobody leaves their coffee alone right here. 302 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:35,000 So, again, this is a big house and two more stories. 303 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:41,000 One, we moved in, we found all the artwork and we were all fascinated. 304 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,000 Are we talking phallic or are we talking? 305 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:50,000 Like the kitchen had a giant paint, this beautiful painting with two roosters. 306 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:57,000 OK, and that was like that was the most underhand of like the could just I mean, we're in the like it's beautiful. 307 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:02,000 Yeah, and then ducks are roosters and chickens are common decorations, 308 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:11,000 but they're never too roosters to lots of male nudity. Oh, so like but but but classic classy like the statue of David. 309 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:16,000 Oh, the painting. OK, again, you could be like, yeah, what you're looking for it. You're looking for this bias. 310 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:23,000 Yeah. And then some others that were not statues I could know of in history or anything. 311 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:35,000 So and then the in the basement, there is a huge house storage space, unfinished basement space had I think there were between eight and 10 feet tall. 312 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:46,000 A nativity set that was creepy. Eight feet tall, eight to ten feet tall, huge, like life size cows bigger, bigger than life size. 313 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:50,000 What Jesus Mary and put them in the yard, baby Jesus. 314 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,000 But we didn't put them in the yard. They were just in the basement. I don't know what he did. 315 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:58,000 He clearly got him from a church. Oh, so he died and you guys moved in. 316 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:02,000 Oh, I moved his stuff. Oh, my gosh. So I could never. 317 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,000 I think he haunted. I didn't believe in ghosts at all. Yeah. 318 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:11,000 Zero percent until we lived in that house. And then I was you know, I was a kid. There was 10 to 12 somewhere in there. 319 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:19,000 Yeah, that type of stuff. It was just like, well, if if ghosts are real and if he's here, he seems friendly. 320 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,000 Yeah. So he's probably just going about his normal business. 321 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:27,000 Johnson for some coffee. Not noticing. Yeah. 322 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:32,000 Again, I've dragged this way off track. No, no, it's nice. The gay ghost realm. 323 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:36,000 Flamboyant. He probably wasn't gay. He's like, gosh. 324 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:40,000 He's like, I just liked the painting. I just understood travel and art. 325 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:45,000 You simple boy. Don't. Simple boy. 326 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,000 Back to our story. How did I drag us there? 327 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,000 It was the ghost thing. Yes. But it was at the tail end. 328 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:57,000 I just had one more note that Scott said, quote, it was just a very calming, wonderful presence. 329 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,000 And I wish he would still show himself. 330 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:03,000 So probably the last way that he showed himself was fog. 331 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,000 I use the foghorn and now that it's new and probably something he's unfamiliar with working. 332 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:12,000 He just he was on duty and they're like, yeah, they're like. 333 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:21,000 2011, a one million dollar renovation project was completed by the trust to restore the station to 1950s condition, which was good. 334 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:26,000 Right. Yes. But just like how it looked, especially on the inside. 335 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,000 Eleven million dollars, one million dollars. OK. 336 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:35,000 One million. I don't know. It's the golf course in 2011. 337 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:41,000 That's funny. So, yeah, the Keepers House has had some changes since then, it appears. 338 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:45,000 So maybe they rebuilt it or I don't know. It looks a little different to me. 339 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,000 Well, we're looking at a different side of it. That's true. 340 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:52,000 All the other previous pictures were from where the sun is that screen. Right. Right. 341 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,000 So maybe those like there's four windows, I think, on that wall. 342 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,000 Yeah. So maybe visually, it just looks a little different. 343 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:03,000 But yeah. And then 2002, sorry, 2022, the submarine cable failed. 344 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,000 We heard about that. We've heard of that story. 345 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:12,000 And in June 2024, so very recently, solar panels were set up on the walkway to supply power to the station. 346 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:16,000 So now it's supports itself out there. And they have a Facebook page. 347 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:22,000 So Scott and Karen Dabrowski live. I know like your siblings 348 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:27,000 live in the Keepers cottage and you can visit by boat during the summer months during high tide. 349 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,000 So they have a tiny little dock where you can pull up. 350 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:38,000 And they said if Scott and Karen are home, then they'll give you a tour of the lighthouse or you can just like be on the grounds. 351 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,000 So they're private owners of this. They spent the million dollars. 352 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:46,000 The trust did. But they work for them. Oh, they're probably on the board. 353 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,000 Yeah. Maybe I don't know. I guess I didn't. Maybe they do double duty. 354 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,000 They live there and take care of it as well. Yeah, that's definitely. 355 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:57,000 Yeah, they've had caretakers since they took over in 1992. So that's great. 356 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:02,000 Yeah. So it's got to be in good shape because there's actually people out there caring about it. 357 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:06,000 You see that tall post by the tower. What do you think that is? 358 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:12,000 It's probably weather related. A lot of lighthouses nowadays have posts like that. 359 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,000 I was going to say it's not a lightning rod because it's higher than the lightning rod. 360 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:19,000 It's well, lightning rods would be. I mean, there's one on top of the tower. 361 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:24,000 Yeah. But if you wanted to save it. Oh, so it's a historical landing rod or something. 362 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:28,000 But you. That's true. I think you would have to have ferrous materials. 363 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:33,000 That appears to be aluminum or. Polish stainless. 364 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:38,000 It doesn't matter. Cool. Thanks. Scott and Karen shout out. 365 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,000 Yeah, thanks for taking care of a lighthouse. 366 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:46,000 Someday we're going to lose a lot of these lighthouses and we got to have people caring for once that'll stick around. 367 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,000 It's just going to keep happening, unfortunately. Yeah. 368 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:55,000 You know, the folks that we keep in contact with talking about this. 369 00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:00,000 Trying to prevent that. Yeah. But also celebrate the time we do have. 370 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:06,000 So we're not we're never adding more lighthouses, so we only have the ones that we have now. 371 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:12,000 And moving on, it'll probably be less and less. So we got to appreciate our lighthouses as they stand. 372 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:16,000 Looks good. Looks like it's in great shape. Yeah, it's really good. 373 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:21,000 Yeah, that's Goat Island Lighthouse, the one in Maine, not the one in Rhode Island. 374 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:26,000 But we'll cover Rhode Island. Some terrible sidetracks on my side of the table. 375 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,000 So they're not terrible. They're nice. 376 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,000 You know, we're just we're a very casual podcast. We just talk. 377 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:37,000 We are the people that probably still listening who listen on YouTube have like I don't know how it's worked. 378 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:43,000 We don't have that many listens right now, but those who do listen, listen a lot to the whole thing. 379 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,000 Stick around. So thank you all. Thank you. You're still here this deep. 380 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,000 Yeah. Appreciate you. And we love comments. 381 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:54,000 We love reviews. Leave us reviews. We haven't gotten a review since like early this year. 382 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:59,000 So if you like this episode, leave us review at the Lighthouse Lowdown dot com. 383 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:05,000 You can also watch our YouTube videos or be led to our YouTube channel. 384 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:11,000 You can leave a review. You can listen to all of our episodes or use the links to get to like 385 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:17,000 Spotify, Apple, et cetera. You can also check us out on Instagram where we post some pictures 386 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:22,000 for each lighthouse that we cover at the Lighthouse Lowdown. 387 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:27,000 And I think that's pretty much it. A happy Thanksgiving to all of our listeners. 388 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:34,000 We all we love you so much. And we're very thankful that you stick around and listen to our stuff. 389 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:37,000 Appreciate you. OK, I was like, you look like you want to say something. 390 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:42,000 And we'll catch you next time on the Lighthouse Lowdown.