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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Sperry Light, CT, 1899-1933

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This is an early 1900s postcard of the Outer Breakwall Light in New Haven, Connecticut, better known as Sperry Light.  It was built in 1...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Antique lighthouse postcards

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I've been collecting antique postcards, especially of lighthouses, for nearly 30 years. Most are from the 1900-1910 period, but some a...
Monday, March 3, 2014

Fort Point Fog Bell

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Fort Point Light in Stockton Springs, Maine, is one of the very few New England lighthouses that still have old fog bell towers. Fort Poin...

"Highland Light: This Book Tells You All About It"

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Highland Light in the late 1800s Isaac M. Small, whose grandfather was the first keeper of Cape Cod's Highland Light and owned the l...
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Saturday, March 1, 2014

Ida Lewis documentary premiere on May 30

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Friday, February 28, 2014

The Bakers at Butler Flats Light, New Bedford

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Amos Baker, Jr. From its first lighting in 1898 until 1942, when the Coast Guard took over from the Lighthouse Service, Butler Flats Lig...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Keeper Fairfield Moore at the Nubble Light

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Fairfield Moore, previously at Rockland Breakwater Light, was keeper of the Cape Neddick "Nubble" Light in York, Maine, from 192...
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