Hi everybody, I'm Emily. And I'm Vince. And this
is The Lighthouse Lowdown. Emily's back. Back,
and better than ever. We did a nice little solo
episode. Did you listen to it? No, I didn't.
But I'm going to, I just, I think it'll probably
be on the flight. Yeah, I wonder if anyone listened
to it. Yeah, I know Jeremy did because he sent
us an email saying congratulations on our wedding.
Oh, that's nice. I know. Jeremy Detrimal. Cool
dude. And then I have one more episode coming
out after that one, which we already recorded
a while ago. So this is actually the episode
after that one. Oh, cool. So I'm ahead. You're
ahead. Should we date where we're at right now
or no? Oh, no. All right. It's still pre -wedding
time. Put it that way. I was going to say, should
we date? We're already dating. We're engaged,
actually. That's nice. So true. So I do have
a history buoy. And I mentioned it, I think,
in our last episode. It's the Lighthouse Digest
Doomsday List. Doomsday List. That sounds so
cool. I mean, it sounds bad. It's foreboding,
yeah. No, it's bad. But it's an interesting thing
for a lighthouse magazine to have. For those
of you that don't know, Lighthouse Digest is
a magazine subscription that you can sign up
for, which we still haven't. And I wish we did.
Every year I'm like, I wish I want to sign up
for this. But we don't. It's because for some
reason I don't want to have to ever change my
address on it. Oh, yeah. We're still moving around.
Yeah. And we're just not stationary yet. So.
So. Yeah. But the magazine was started in 1990.
So it's been around for a long time. Lots of
decades on it. Yeah. So the doomsday list specifically
was created in 1993. So shortly after they started
the magazine. And this was to draw public attention
to lighthouses that were in serious danger of
being lost forever. And obviously the people
who subscribe to this magazine are people who
care about lighthouses. Of course. The interests
overlap. Enthusiasts. Yeah. So the criteria for
being on the list was. Stuff like the lighthouse
is in imminent danger by erosion or structural
damage, financial improbability of repair, and
stuff like that. So if they don't foresee anyone
being able to cover the cost of restoring it,
then it'll go on the doomsday list. Even if it's
still standing or still in use or whatever, then
it could be on the doomsday list. But yeah, the
criteria for being on the list also isn't a hard
line. Like there's no way to really quantify
what would put it on the doomsday list. So it's
really just up to the magazine who decides. Interesting.
And I assume there's an author and editor, probably
potentially the same person. Do you know? Probably.
Like who is managing the list is what I say.
No, I don't know. The magazine. Yeah, the history
of the movie is on the list, not the magazine.
And it's the Keeper's log. Lighthouse Digest.
Man. You didn't listen at all. No, I wasn't.
I was focused on the audio. Keeper's Log is the
USLHS. Yeah. Quarterly newsletter. Yes. Which
we could also cover that sometime too. Oh my
gosh. And there's also the emails they send out
to their members. Oh yeah. Yeah. I haven't seen
one of those in a while. I get them. Maybe we're
due for one soon. I get them. I also get them
regarding. You know, they have a new podcast.
Oh. Oh, my gosh. It's the light version, L -I
-T -E. Oh, yes. So they're like shorter episodes.
Yeah. It's like reposted, but shortened. Yeah.
Very cool. Anyway, lighthouses that we've covered
so far that were on the list and made it off
are Cape Hatteras. Nice. It was once on Doomsday
List. Wow. Little River, Avery Point, Crisp Point,
and Nauset Light. Wow. Oh, yeah. We've got some
big names on there that have been on the list
and then made it back off. Yeah. And some are
doing very well today. Yes, exactly. From what
we know. We know Cape Hatteras is going through
a restoration for the past few years. Yeah. I
wonder how that's going. It's been through several,
though. Because Cape Hatteras was famously, it
was relocated. Yes. In the 90s? Yeah. I want
to say 90s or 2000s. It was like late 90s. Either
way, it was very well documented. So that's worth
looking up if you're interested. They moved the
whole thing. So crazy. Big one. Wagashant's Lighthouse
is one that we've covered that's still on the
list. And yeah, that one I'm not surprised by
at all because when we covered it, there was
like bricks coming out of the foundation and
stuff. So like it's definitely. in danger. And
I don't think anyone will take on the task of
fixing it because there, I know there's people
that want to, and they're like trying to fundraise,
but it's just too, too expensive. Really unfortunate.
I think they said it would be like a million
dollars just to fix, temporarily fix the foundation
so that it could last through like a few more
winters, but it's just a temporary fix. So it's
hard to fork over that much money for something
that's, that's not even tangible. Yeah. Yeah,
and to speak a little bit generally, I was thinking,
man, it's too bad lighthouses are not still included
in government funding a lot of times for transportation
and infrastructure. But of course, that's not
going too well either. As we sit right now, the
government's been shut down for quite a while.
So as an example of disagreement on funding.
So true. Lighthouses would be a rough one. They
would be cut pretty fast, I think. But they're
historical. I don't know. I know, but so are
a lot of bridges. So are a lot of roads and highways.
Yeah, and they'd probably upkeep with those.
Great. I don't know. The creation of this doomsday
list. A few lighthouses have been destroyed and
removed. So we have the opposite happening where
things like Cape Hatteras are success stories.
Success stories. Yep. And then we have the other
side of the coin. Sadness stories. Green Island
lighthouse from our last episode was removed
from the list, even though it's still standing
due to the improbability of restoration. You
know, it's the one that just had stone walls
left over because it burned. It's off in the
woods. Yep. Yeah. And the same is true with the
lighthouse that we're covering today. Still continuing
our Green Island series. Oh, nice. Yeah. Another
Green Island. It's Green Island Lighthouse of
Wisconsin this time. Last time was Ohio. Now
we're in Wisconsin. Wisconsin. Cheese, right?
Yes. That's all I got. Cheese heads. I've never
been to Wisconsin. I don't think I have either.
Have we covered a lighthouse in Wisconsin? I'm
not sure. One way to find out would be to go
to thelighthouselowdown .com where you can see
our episodes map. Yeah. Which is what we're doing
right now. It looks like we have not. Wow. Oh,
wait a minute. I can't remember. We've been close
because it includes, it almost, it's just shy
of Duluth. Oh yeah, Minnesota. So we've been
really close with like Split Rock and stuff.
Yeah, right on the border. Let's see. So that's
where we're going. We're going to Wisconsin.
There's an 87 acre little half moon shaped island
called Green Island in Green Bay. Here we are.
So this nice little map there for you so you
can see. Green Island off of Marionette. Yeah,
near Marionette. I don't know how to pronounce
it exactly. But there's a couple lighthouses
you can see in this screenshot alone. So it's
a lighthouse -heavy area. And Green Island was
one of them at this point. It's, well, I'll just
tell you the story. So the area began to boom
in lumber. um in like the mid -1800s huge lumber
area and green island was a good spot for a lighthouse
because it had shoals that extended out from
like into the bay so it was kind of a like a
danger area that needed to be marked anyway besides
all the traffic that was coming in and so in
1859 congress appropriated six thousand dollars
for a lighthouse here and they placed five stone
monoliths i wish we had like a picture but you
know mid -1800s That were placed on the island
to mark off just under two acres of the island
to purchase from Peter McBride, who owned the
island. And I found out owns lots of islands
around that time. Peter McBride. Yeah. Do we
know that name? I don't know. I think that might
be new. I think so. Green Bay wealthy. No doubt.
Yeah. He owned lots of islands around like the
Great Lakes and stuff. He was paid. $39 .97 for
this land, which, by the way, is about $1 ,500
today. I'm like. It's a good deal. What do you
mean? For the government. Is this an eminent
domain case? I don't know. Because that's not
worth, that's not a lot of money to take over.
It's terrible. Yeah, it's not good. Two acres,
think about, and that's today's money, $1 ,500
for two acres today. They're selling lots for
houses that are like 0 .15 acres for like 200
something. Bo, Bo, you can't. For everyone listening,
Bo, the black cat, is on Emily's lap and he's
pawing at both the microphone cord and the laptop
controlling the notes. He's like, here, let me
help. I know the real estate prices in this area.
Hurry up. Just go to the next page. You're spending
too much time here. So cute. Yeah, he's a little
bit distracting, but I really enjoy having something
to clutch while I'm talking. I like to clutch
his armpit. Emily and I, we have two cats. This
is Bo, the black cat, and then we have Joey,
the orange cat. Recently, it was Halloween, it
was their day. Yeah. But now they're retired.
Yep, now it's fall. Off season. Yeah, they're
coming back. Back down off of their high, their
Halloween high. But Black Hat is a yearly season.
Sure. Where was I? Okay, so they built the lighthouse.
Appropriated the money. Yes. Bought the land.
Yes. Built the lighthouse. And it was an integral
tower on a two and a half story brick dwelling
with the square tower coming out of the south
end of like a very pitched roof. If you want
to click next. Next slide. Oh. Such a nice photo.
It's very fancy. Two and a half story. Yeah.
It's probably like the attic is probably like
one room or something. Could be. Yeah. Yeah.
I feel like that was pretty common to do something
with that extra space. I sure do love integral
towers. They're very nice. If anyone doesn't
know, that's where the lighthouse tower is actually
built into the house that the keeper or assistant
keepers. and families live in. Yeah. So it's
like you built a house and then you stuck a lighthouse
on top. There was a time, I think you showed
me the first integral tower that we talked about.
I can't remember which one that would have been.
And I was like, what? Like, I was like, oh, you
could just, why, why didn't I think that was
a possibility? I've always thought of lighthouses
as standalone structures. Like it needs to be.
Yeah. Yeah, well, it does need to be structurally
sound because the lantern room is usually pretty
heavy with the lens and everything. You wouldn't
want that thing to fall down. This one never
had anything more than a fourth order, though,
so not super heavy. We're not talking like first
order integral. That would be crazy. Yeah, it's
beautiful, though. Very symmetrical. But the
light had a focal plane of 55 feet from a fixed
white fourth order Fresnel lens. So we got one
right off the bat. Other buildings on the station
included a summer kitchen, which I don't know
what that is. Summer kitchen. Is it like you
don't want to heat up the house so then you cook
elsewhere? Could be. Yeah, like a smokehouse.
Yeah. I don't know. I'd like to learn more about
that. A workshop, a boathouse, a privy, and an
oil house. Gotta have a privy. Which you can
see a couple in the photo that I have pulled
up. So when they were finished, a notice to mariners
were sent out. We talked about that recently.
Signing. that the light would be lit October
1st, 1863. And the first keeper was Samuel P.
Drew, who had his seventh child with his wife
Mary in 1864 at the station. And then another
in 1869, though she passed away shortly after
that, like three months into infancy. And her
gravestone is actually marked at the station.
Eight kids. So you can see like her grave stays
there. That's nice. Yeah. And it comes back up.
Later, like in modern times, but I'll tell you
a little more about it. Okay. In 1864, Drew replaced
the issued lard oil lamp with a kerosene lamp,
just of his own volition. Wow. And so eventually
he attempted to blow out the flame through the
glass chimney in the light. And instead of going
out, it exploded. Oh, no. Hold on. What? So this
is after he replaced it with a kerosene lamp.
Yes, now it's like a kerosene lamp. And I wonder
if it's just like he's not trained in it or like
inside the lens did something. Shoot. I don't
know. Somehow he ignited a fire and it exploded?
Exploded. So Drew was lit aflame. No. And running
down the lighthouse. And while he was rushing,
there was a second explosion, which severely
damaged the lens and the lantern room. So something
crazy happened. I don't know. Maybe when he blew
the flame, it went down like into the oil reservoir.
Yeah. Damn. And he had eight kids. Yeah. I mean,
everyone was fine. He ended up being cool. Nobody
was fired. He wasn't covered in flames. He was
caught aflame. But I think it was like his clothes,
you know. Stop, drop, and roll kind of action.
Yes, yeah. You know, people can be all right
after that. So they built a temporary light while
the original was being repaired, and Samuel kept
his post, so he didn't get fired for any of that.
Well, he was fired, but... He, like, laughed
extra long to find the button. That's right,
I gotta find the button. That's funny. His eldest
daughter, Helen, was assistant keeper from 1867
through 1870. So for three years, she was officially
assistant keeper. We love to see that. 1871,
in October, a fire broke out in the town of Peshtigo.
I don't know if I said that right. Just say it
boldly. I believe you. Peshtigo. Yeah. Called
the Great Peshtigo Fire. And slide. oh no i know
it was huge it burned 1 .2 million acres and
a lot of this was like the logging industry so
they took a huge hit like i i can't remember
what the financial repercussions of this was
in today's money but it was like hundreds of
millions of dollars yeah i mean there's places
in the fire called sugarbush upper middle and
lower sugarbush birch creek yeah i'm looking
for like a uh Stack of timber, Wisconsin, and
a matchbox, Wyoming. Somehow Wyoming's in there.
All right, keep going. Sorry. And then Door County,
which is that. Michigan. Oh, across the river.
Yes, across the bay. Across the Green Bay. The
river. Also burned from what I read was actually
a separate fire at the time, at the exact same
time. There was another fire that was not, like
people are saying, people say that this fire
jumped the bay, but I read that that's actually
not true. And it's like. originated down here
in palmer is that this is yeah a new new franken
franken i saw the word new and i thought it was
palmer and i'm wearing my glasses so it's a little
blurry so i can give you some credit there interesting
painting though also on this slide oh yeah i
picked the worst one like most dramatic Yeah.
Looks like they're in hell sort of thing. Looks
rough. Yeah. I read a lot of terrible stories.
It was like, there was this one guy who like
slit all the throats of his children instead
of having them burn to death. Like people couldn't
escape kind of thing. Yeah. And he survived.
Yeah. Or at least somebody survived that was
there. Oh, terrible. I would never, I'm sorry.
It's like, I want to save you, but I'm like,
I'm going to die trying instead of. Just like
taking you out myself. Also, slitting the throat
is not exactly a pleasant way to go. It's not
like, oh, here, I'll save you from having to
suffer. No, that's not good. No. I mean, it's
with the tools of the time. Oh, yeah. So there's
a movie, Stephen King. It was a book, I believe.
I think it was a Stephen King book called The
Mist. I haven't read that one. Well, there's
a film that was made about it. Oh. And the main
actor is a man. You know, he's the tough main
character. And at the end of the film, spoiler,
they're in a car and they're in the mist and
they're going to die inevitably. Yeah. And so
he has a gun and he shoots everyone in the car.
Oh. But he doesn't have a bullet for himself.
Oh, no. So it's like a selfless act of like saving
them from this terrible fate. Yeah. And then
like immediately afterwards, there's like savior
that arrives. Oh, no. Yeah. Oh, it's terrible.
So that's what I was thinking of when you're
like, yeah, this guy. Also, I don't mean to make
light of this because I know this is a real story.
But awful. Yeah. Absolutely awful. But yeah,
I mean, from the picture alone, you can see how
intense the fire was. And I think a lot of people
jumped into the river and like the bay and stuff
to save themselves. But it was October. So a
lot of people died from hypothermia after that.
Damn. I know. What are the odds? I'm very unfortunate.
Do you know when the Great Chicago Fire was?
I think it was 1800s also. It may have been.
I read that this fire was at the same time as
another huge fire. And so then this one kind
of died. In popularity. But I know what you mean.
In news spread. Yes, because there was something
else that was bigger. Even though more people
died in this fire than whatever that fire was.
Here, let me look it up. I'm curious. Yes. Same
year. Great Chicago fire. Okay. So rough year
for fire. Yeah. It's probably because of, it
was probably more building damage and that's
why it got more. Very in the city. Yeah. Damn.
I think more people died. Oh yeah. Like this
says fire killed approximately 300 people in
great Chicago fire. And I know that this one
killed. At least 2 ,000 people. That's crazy.
It's crazy. It's really terrible. Huge area.
So, humongous fire. Drew and the oldest children
worked to put out any fires that started on the
island. Because if you can see, the fire is on...
Both sides of where this. Origination on both
sides too. And there was, so there's all these
airborne sparks and like ash coming down on the
lighthouse. So they were like putting out little
roofs, roof fires and like on the island and
everything. And then Mary kept the light burning
and watched the younger children the entire time,
but they succeeded in protecting the lighthouse.
So it didn't burn. So that's one big win. That's
huge. Maybe you're going to cover it. I wonder
what the area was like recovering from this fire.
If the lighthouse was otherwise a refuge for
anybody, it's terrible. Yeah, I don't know. It's
too far to swim to this island. I can't remember
exactly how many miles off the shore it is. I
thought it was like five miles off. I bet if
there was any boats that were used to try to
evacuate the fire. Yeah, to save people. Dang.
Big fires are always like a sad thing to see
in history and somebody's like in a town or whatever.
Yeah, fires and hurricanes. Or like the two,
especially historically when they didn't have
forecasting. Yeah. The two like urgent widespread
disasters that often, in stories at least, happen
to lighthouses. Yeah. Speaking of hurricanes,
there's hurricanes going on right now in the
Caribbean. Yeah, that Cat 5 in Jamaica. So, we'll
have to see. Hopefully there's no new news on
lighthouses. Oh, yeah. I didn't even think about
checking in on that. Yeah. It's not really what
we do here, but we hear a lot of the news. It's
relevant. What is it called when two... Intersection.
Yes. Crossover. The interest... Venn diagram.
1876. The lighthouse board suggested more of
the island be purchased to make it easier to
reach the light station. So apparently, maybe
it's like from another side of the island or
something. Dock access or something. to where
the keepers and anyone else usually travels.
So they purchased 0 .79 acres from Samuel and
Mary Drew for $150, by the way. So we got a little
bit more than the Peter McBride. $150. But these
two, it's the keeper and his wife, they own much
of the island because they had a big garden and
were raising livestock. And one summer they sold
87 bushels of strawberries. That's a lot. Yeah.
So they had like an actual... That's an incredible
yield of strawberries. An actual operation going
on. So they owned most of the island. So the
Congress paid them for the land, for the lighthouse.
Kind of neat. Bet they were eating a lot of strawberries.
Yeah. So much jam. This bit of land that they
bought would be the location of the new boathouse.
Because I think something happened with the other
boathouse. Like the water level changed. Oh no,
I'm thinking of the well. There was a well and
the water level changed so much that they had
to dig a new one. Yeah. Which maybe is common
on water on the side. It's a great lake, so a
lot of fresh water available. I can't. I hadn't
thought about that. I would think on an island
your well depth would be very shallow. Yeah.
Whatever the water line would be. And then the
water would be filtered by the island to get
to your well. Sand and stuff. I don't know. Samuel
Drew was moved to Menominee. I know I'm supposed
to say it confidently, but it's impossible. Menominee
Pierhead Light in 1881. But by 1903, his son
Frank was assistant keeper at Green Island Light
again. Let's go. A lot of his sons went into
the same career path as he had. Tradesman. 1909,
Frank was promoted to head keeper at Green Island.
And his older brother, George, was assistant.
So they were like a little team. They had an
excellent track record for saving people as well.
So there's like this whole list of all the people
that they saved or, you know, all the assistance
they gave to people in the Bay. Yeah, that's
really nice. Frank Drew retired in 1929 and unexpectedly
passed away two years later from heart failure.
But the Coast Guard has honored, and I'll do
a history buoy on this, honored some of the most
extinguished. That's right, right? Extinguished.
Maybe since we just talked about fire. Distinguished.
Distinguished? Yeah. Extinguished a fire. That's
what I was like. That's not the right word. You
got me though. I was like, that's absolutely
it. Totally right. I am extinguished in my field.
The distinguished keepers by naming buoy tenders
after them. Oh, cool. Yeah. So I'll cover that
later, but Frank Drew was one of the people that
they named a Bowie tender after because he was
so exemplary at being a lighthouse keeper. And
Frank was the son of? Of the original Samuel.
Sam Drew, Samuel Drew. Yeah, he was the first
keeper, stayed for a long time, and then his
sons eventually. And quick quiz, mom died, unfortunately,
after the last baby was born. No, the baby died.
Oh, the baby died. Yeah. I thought mother died.
Mary stuck around. I think Anna Drew was the
name of the baby that passed away. Did they have
other daughters? Do you know? Or were they all,
they didn't have all boys. Okay. The eldest daughter,
Helen was. That's right. Yeah. But there's, I
mean, there was eight kids. So seven, eight.
That's what I was. I was counting a lot of things.
Yeah. It sounded like there was a pretty even
split. So I don't know that for sure. 1930, the
lighthouse suffered another huge explosion. Oh,
no. Blowing off doors and windows. And they figured
out, I don't know what happened. The current
keeper was saying that it was a malicious attack.
Somebody put a bomb in the lighthouse. Some fishermen
were angry about something. And he was like,
oh, they did this. And then, you know, obviously
they did an investigation. And it was the gas
stove malfunctioned and blew up. So he was kind
of on the edge. There was something going on.
He was disagreeing with the fishermen so strongly
that he thought they would bomb him. Thought
that they would plant a bomb in the lighthouse.
So I don't know. Nobody was hurt, but they did.
They were like blasted back like 50 feet from
the lighthouse. Jeez. But there was only like
minor injuries. Thank goodness. That's crazy.
Thank goodness for all that sand. 1933, the Green
Island Lighthouse was automated and the light
was transferred to a skeletal. 65 -foot tower
in 1956. Early. Which is still standing and functioning
today. Okay. Skeletal one is good. Green Island
is not. The following year, the Rowan Steamship
Company had acquired the entire island, which
was... I can't remember. I didn't make a note
of what this company was, but apparently they
were well -respected. A large company of something.
I don't... Remember shipping steamships. Yeah.
Yeah. Probably a shipping company. I don't know,
but, uh, they had, the lighthouse had been abandoned
since 1956. So only some of the walls remained
just like stone walls. But in 2011, the Rowan
company announced a proposed $90 million development
on the Island, which would be called Anna's vineyard
and green Island in honor of Anna H. Drew, who
was buried on the Island. And this would include
condos and a marina. Is it marina? Yeah. Along
with rebuilding the lighthouse. So like... $90
million. Yeah. This is a small island. Yeah,
I know. Yeah, it's only 87 acres, I said. So
they're going to make... This is the shipping
company still owns this? And they're going to
make it like a tourist... Like a tourist stop.
Stop. They're like, this is your oasis away.
On Green Bay. Yeah, like five miles off the coast
to come and... I think I'm interested in this.
Have a little condo. I think I like this. And
they said that they would have ferry service
to the island that would be provided from both
Marinette and Sturgeon Bay. So like on either
side. But I found the island on privateislandsonline
.com for sale. Priced by request only. So it
appears that this promise from 2011 has fallen
through completely. So no work has been done
on this island at all. No, no. Empty promises.
90 million to zero is a jump. Yeah. Is the company
still around? Did you look them up at all? Yeah,
I think now it's called Rowan's Salvage Company.
I'm not really sure. I don't know. But it was
pretty sad. I bet there's some backstory there.
Yeah, it says 2011 they made this big announcement.
And then I'm looking around and I'm like, oh,
nothing ever happened. So then through searching
I was able to find that the island is for sale.
So if anybody wants to buy this island and do
something else with it. The notes are kind of
interesting to read. I put the link to the private
island listing in our show notes. If you guys
want to go check it out. There's a bunch of information
about the island itself. Tiny little blurb about
how the lighthouse is in ruins and not worth
anything. I was like, no. They're like, there
is an old lighthouse on the island which provides
no, like, no anything. It doesn't provide anything.
I don't know if this is a fair line to draw.
This is a real question. mackinaw island yeah
oh that's so funny it said it's it would be green
bay's mackinaw island yeah which is like i'm
still learning about it but it's famously it's
got several places to stay it's got no vehicles
everything is like walking or horse drawn or
bicycle yeah and it's a in the u .s tourist destination
probably i would guess mostly for u .s folks
yeah but i wonder if there's not an opportunity
there Yeah, it could be something. I don't think
Mackinac Island is cheap. No, it's not. I've
heard it's like very expensive. So I would suppose
that that expense is profitable to whoever's
owning those things. Yeah, and that's what they
were pushing a lot on this private island website.
It's just like this could be like a big, they
were talking about how many people move through
this area and how much revenue it generates and
stuff like that. Oh, no. What remains of the
lighthouse. It's very sad. There's not much there.
It's considered ruins now at this point and has
been removed from the doomsday list because it's
considered unsalvageable. Very sad. Oh, I cut
it off in the picture, but in the front of this
second photo, you can see the skeletal, the bottom
of the skeletal tower, which is still lit. And
it mentions it in the private island website
too, like this is government property, but the
rest of it's... going to be what you purchase
yeah so sad shame i know but that's another one
on our green island series yeah yay i promise
the next one i cover is still is not on the doomsday
list well i did two sad ones we're gonna have
a good one next green island another one we learned
that there's a ton of a snake island there's
several yes we covered two i think yeah yeah
but i think there was a ton of snake island it's
just hard to And it's one of our biggest hits
on YouTube still. Oh, nice. So interesting that
that would blow up. I have an idea. If anyone
wants to develop this land, they can use my idea
for free. Oh, wow. Our company where we work
has a headquarters that was built on the property
that previously housed a religious center of
some type. I think it was a synagogue. I'm unsure
exactly. But the countertops. When you and I
were on the phone the other day, I was off in
a conference room, and I noticed every conference
room has this little plaque. The countertops
in the conference rooms, which are nice white
stone, were salvaged from the building material
of that synagogue. No way. So it's like there's
a plaque acknowledging these are... This is what
it's from. Something like to honor the building
that stood on this property before and that gave
a short history of it. Interesting. So there's
enough stone here left. You can use it for something.
Build it something and say this is the old lighthouse,
inter -rural house and tower. Now making up the
bar top at Hurricanes. Jimmy Buffett. Bar top
at Hurricanes? Margaritaville. Margaritaville,
Wisconsin. That's hilarious. I'm just putting
it out there. Sad. Free to use that idea. I'm
sure that would upset someone. And someone else
would be like, yeah. It would be me. Somebody
else would be like, yeah. But don't put your
drinks down on these bricks. So that's Green
Island of Wisconsin. And we'll continue on with
our series in our next episode. So get ready.
I would like to say thank you for coming back.
It's good to have you back. What do you mean?
Like I was going to stay away? Well, I don't
know. Things are tough. This is my podcast. Things
are challenging right now. We got. Like 10 hours
of sleep last night, which was deeply restorative.
Glorious. But there's not been a lot of extra
sleep going on. And anyway, so our listeners
who are sticking through us through this time,
thank you all. And Emily, of course, thank you
for coming back. If you do get a chance to listen
to the Edmund Fitzgerald coverage of the last
episode. Not the last. Remember? Well, the last
one that I recorded. Oh, yeah. Chronologically
in real life. That one. For me, it was pretty
tough. And you're going to hear lots of, lots
of times when I would rely on you and it's just
me. Oh, what do you mean rely on me? Like for
commentary? Like I made a comment at the beginning.
You're going to hear me drink coffee or if I
have to sneeze or I have to read something. Yeah,
because I didn't edit. I didn't really edit all
that much. No cutting on that one. There was
one part where I had to splice together where
you stopped talking for a little bit. Yes. So
that was basically it. I went away to try to
fix a door. It was chaos. It was my bridal shower.
The door hinge exploded, screws everywhere, and
it was crazy. So anyways, if you guys are interested,
that's out there. YouTube is behind right now.
Hopefully I'll catch it up. Okay. I'm trying
really hard not to get behind on our episodes,
but with our wedding coming up in December, there
is a chance of there being some delays. Yeah.
We've never once been late. So I'm trying so
hard to keep that true. Yeah. Our listeners are,
they'll stick with us. Yeah. So thank you guys.
That's all I had to say. I appreciate you. Excellent.
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No doubt. Oh yeah, it's the weekend. It's the
weekend. It's the weekend. It's the weekend.