tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25544503465733879142024-03-03T19:25:42.755-05:00Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers AssociationGLLKA is a registered 501(C)(3) not for profit organization dedicated to preserving our lighthouses and the stories of those who kept them through education and fostering a new generation of preservationists.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2554450346573387914.post-78903639646047595432016-06-12T23:21:00.000-04:002016-06-16T23:26:01.827-04:00Day 2 of the 2016 Opening weekend at St. Helena<div style="text-align: center;">
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Siegman arrives at the dock to check out the solar power system he
helped to design. It was a good thing we managed to get the dock
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year we take a sample from the well to ensure that the water is
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the water department back in St. Ignace on our return to the mainland.
Thankfully,we receive word from the water department on Monday afternoon
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shattering the frame. It mist have happened while there was a great deal
of snow was on the ground because the pane of glass was lying on the
rocks below in one piece! </span></span></span></span></div>
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of weeds growing everywhere this year. The Boy Scouts will doubtless
take care of these during Scout Week 2016 which starts this coming
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2554450346573387914.post-83873678363059441232016-06-01T15:30:00.000-04:002016-06-01T15:30:13.088-04:00Learn about lighthouses in the Straits of Mackinac on July 18Join our Executive Director Terry Pepper at 6:30 PM on July 18 at the
Otsego County Library in Gaylord where he will give a presentation on
the awesome lighthouses which guide mariners through the Straits of
Mackinac. No charge for admission.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2554450346573387914.post-67565870555812686932016-06-01T15:27:00.000-04:002016-06-01T15:27:34.271-04:00More from Cheboygan<div style="text-align: justify;">
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the Cheboyan River Front Range Light through the coming weekend. Have
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was planted by keeper John Duffy a hundred years ago. While twisted and
gnarled, and definitely showing signs of its advanced age, it still provides some wonderful
shade and produces hundreds of tasty apples every fall.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2554450346573387914.post-77764575924477429492016-05-30T15:21:00.000-04:002016-06-01T15:26:55.530-04:00Welcome to our first volunteer keepers for 2016<div style="text-align: justify;">
Judy and Marcia are serving as our volunteer keepers at the Cheboygan
River Front Range Light over Memorial Day Weekend. They are having a
great time and are enjoying taking folks through the lighthouse, sharing
its history and showing the huge amount of work we still have to
undertake to return the station to its original glory. </div>
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This sunrise photo
over the Cheboygan River was taken by Marcia from the gallery this
morning. They will be back next weekend - stop by and say "hi" if you
are in the area.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2554450346573387914.post-90760837139517292015-08-03T23:37:00.002-04:002015-08-04T23:52:29.093-04:00August 2015<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 1 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The 650 foot FEDERAL YUKON entering the Round Island Passage as seen during tonight's Shepler's Eastbound Sunset Lighthouse Cruise.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 1 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Sunset off the east side of Bois Blanc Island </span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">as seen during tonight's Shepler's Eastbound Sunset Lighthouse Cruise.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 1 - The light was on at Fourteen Foot Shoal Lighthouse <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> during tonight's Shepler's Eastbound Sunset Lighthouse Cruise.</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 1 - The Cheboygan Crib Light as we passed by during tonight's Shepler's Eastbound Sunset Lighthouse Cruise.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 2 - It has been a stormy day in the Straits of Mackinac. We had 65 mile per
hour winds which knocked over a couple of trailers on the Mackinac
Bridge. Fortunately, everything is in great shape at St. Helena Island,
where our volunteers and participants in the Fiddlers Workshop have been
boathouse for an all day jam session. Our volunteers at the Cheboygan
River Front Range Light report that the power has been out there since
10:00 AM, and they saw a couple of large trees flowing past the
lighthouse a short time after the worst of the storm went through.
Hopefully the weather will moderate, as National Restoration will be
arriving tomorrow morning to begin our long awaited foundation
restoration at the lighthouse.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The crew with National Restoration arrived in Cheboygan last night, and
at 8:30 this morning were already busy excavating the southwest side of foundation at our Cheboygan River
Front Range Light. Two thirds of the cost of this much
needed work is being undertaken through a grant from the Michigan
Lighthouse Assistance Program, which is wholly funded through the sale
of Michigan lighthouse license plates.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 3 - Excavating to expose the foundation wall on the southwest side of the lighthouse this morning.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 3 - The brick foundation of the addition to the rear of the dwelling was
found to be in excellent shape, and after wire brushing was immediately
covered with waterproofing material without any restoration necessary.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 3 - However, this was not the case with the older random stone foundation
which is requiring some stone replacement to fill holes and a lot of
tuck pointing as seen in this photo taken at 3:30 PM .... and it gets worse on the other sides of the
structure! Once the entire foundation has been cleaned, restored, tuck-pointed and sealed, a perimeter drain will be bedded in pea gravel around the entire foundation to carry water away from the foundation.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 4 - Today, a group of us headed out to St. Helena Island to pull the
roll-out dock, drop off our final group of volunteers for the summer and
bring the participants of the Fiddler's Workshop back to the mainland. Here some of our our outbound crew can be seen on the aft deck of UGLY ANNE off McGulpin Point. Our constant companion, the Mackinac Bridge can be seen in the distance.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 4 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">After
dropping of the crew and their gear and loading the gear from the
Fiddlers, UGLY ANNE backed away from the roll-out dock to tie up to one
of our moorings.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 4 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The weather cleared around 11:30 and it was beautiful as we winched the dock sections up onto shore.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 4 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">With
the dock safely secured on shore, we jumped into our two Zodiacs
AMARANTH and MARIGOLD and headed out to UGLY ANNE for the run back to
Mackinaw City.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 4 -Boarding <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">UGLY ANNE at our mooring. She has a slide in door in her side which makes climbing aboard from the Zodiacs a breeze.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 4 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">St. Helena Island in the rear view mirror.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 4 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Passing beneath the Bridge on the way back to Mackinaw City is always a pleasure.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 4 - National Restoration continued foundation restoration at our Cheboygan River Front Range Light today. They have excavated the entire southeast side of the building, and have already installed the perimeter drain and pea gravel and back-filled in the first area they completed yesterday. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 4 - Cleaning the face of the rubble stone foundation in preparation for tuck-pointing and sealing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 4 - Excavation has begun on the front of the building, and restoration and tuck-pointing is underway on the first side.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 1 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Mark Vandervelde was busy cooking brats for his fellow volunteers at our St. Helena Island light station earlier this evening.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 2 - It's another beautiful, crisp morning at our St. Helena Island Light
Station. <br />
You could wake up to this view as one of our volunteer keepers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 2 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Early morning chores at our St. Helena Island Light Station - pumping water for hand washing stations.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 2 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">We
had some visitors pull up to our dock at St. Helena Island bright and
early this morning. Here volunteer Mark Vandevelde (l) gives them a tour
of the Assistant keepers dwelling. We love it when folks come to visit
the island!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 2 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Pizza and salad for lunch at our St. Helena Light Station today. Anybody hungry?</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 2 - In
preparation for their celebration of Independence Day, St. Helena
volunteer keepers Lori and Michelle decided to replace
the white gull flags on our dock with something a little more
appropriate!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 2 - Moonrise over the Mackinac Bridge as seen from St. Helena Island this evening.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 3 - Michelle and Lori are making more preparations to mark "The Fourth" at our St. Helena Island Light Station.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 3 - An array of Showy Lady Slippers on St. Helena Island</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 4 - Lori makes good use of our new solar power to prepare some whipped cream to top the group's dinner dessert.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 4 - Joan takes some time to organize and clean the library in the keepers office.</span></span></span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><br /></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 4 - Ann cleaning windows to clarify the situation.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 4 - Mark and Hogan work on rebuilding the deteriorating entrance steps to the rear of the assistant keepers dwelling.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 4 - Michelle
busy scraping. Since the lantern is an exact cast iron replica of the
original, at least we know there is no lead in the paint and they do not
have to wear masks!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 4 - Lori
working on paint removal in the steamy lantern. Once the pint is all
removed, the cast iron will be wire brushed, primed, and painted.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 4 - Mark and Hogan have completed their rebuild of the south rear entry into the assistant keepers dwelling</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 4 - the cream whipped earlier in the day ended up on this beautiful red, white and blue patriotic dessert.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 5 - Hogan putting the final touches on the construction of a new bench for St. Helena.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 5 - A whispy line of fog in the clearing to the north of the lighthouse at St. Helena Island this morning.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 5 - Volunteer keeper Joan prepping one of the basement window frames for
paint this morning at our St. Helena Island light station. Lighthouse
preservation is a never ending commitment that is only possible through
the dedication of our wonderful volunteers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 5 -<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Cleaning lunchtime dishes - lighthouse style.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 5 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Lori provides the finishing touch for the new bench at St. Helena with some freehand routing.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 5 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Three boats at the dock this afternoon - twelve visitors touring the light station.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 6 - Post July Fourth sunrise as seen on our "big screen TV" - the boathouse door.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 6 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Hogan, Mark and Lori have modified the swim ladder on the new dock to accommodate the deeper<br />water levels this year.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 6 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">A beautiful wood lily found near the lighthouse this morning.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 6 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Lori
and Michelle finished scraping the lantern astragals and applied
primer, and are now adding the finish coat of white Rustoleum.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 6 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Hogan,
MaryAnn and Mark have finished building and installing a new sturdy
railing on the back steps to the assistant keepers dwelling.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 6 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Work on the new bench for St. Helena is finished, and it takes it place of honor right in front of the boat house.</span></span><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"> </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 7 - Today was one of our busiest days at St. Helena Island. We started the
day at 7:00 AM when we took 19 people out to spend a "lunch at the
lighthouse" day on the island, and at 5:00 PM we delivered 8 new
volunteer keepers, retrieved six more and returned the 19 lunch guests
to the mainland.Here we see the buffet style lunch spread laid out for our visitors.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 7 - Our "Lunch at St. Helena" visitors making their way through the lunch line. Positive comments from everyone on account of MaryAnn's wonderful meal planning.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 8 - Our new crew of volunteers who arrived yesterday are busy cleaning
the east end of the assistant keepers dwelling preparatory to
repainting. If you have been following us this year, you will remember
that Boy Scout Jack Debacker rebuilt this end of the building earlier as
his Eagle Scout service project</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 8 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Food preparation in the summer kitchen is a constant process in the summer kitchen when you have ten hungry mouths to feed.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 8 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Whacking weeds into submission along the path from the assistant keepers dwelling to the main island.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 8 - Mudding drywall on the newly constructed east wall of the assistant keepers dwelling.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 8 - Cleaning
and reorganizing supplies in the station cellar. A much easier task
thanks to the solar powered electric lights Boy Scout Eli Levine
installed in pursuit of his Eagle Scout service award earlier this year.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 8 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Volunteers
Greg and Debbie applying the first finish paint coat on the east end of
the assistant keepers dwelling at St. Helena this afternoon</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 8 - What better way to end out the day on a remote island in Lake Michigan
than a beach bonfire with your fellow volunteers! You can bet these
folks will sleep well tonight!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 8 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Another beautiful and productive day at St. Helena comes to an end. Sleep tight everyone.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 9 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Volunteers
Debbie and Greg were busy this morning applying a second coat of paint
to the refurbished east wall of the assistant keepers dwelling at our
St. Helena Island Light Station.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 9 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Volunteers
Cilla and Sandy were hiking around the wsetern end of St. Helena Island
this morning when they saw three fox kits. This is the first time we
have seen foxes on the island. Their parents must have come across the
ice over the winter. Unfortunately, neither Cilla nor Sandy had cameras
with them, so this photo from the National Wildlife Federation website
will have to suffice until someone manages to snap them.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 10 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Our
crew of St. Helena volunteers on the deck of a Shepler's Ferry boat at
7:30 this morning as they departed from St. Helena Island. Thanks for your wonderful
work!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 10 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The new crew sits down to enjoy an Al Fresco lunch at the picnic table at the foot of the tower.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 10 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The island is a great place to learn to handle a kayak on a perfect Lake Michigan afternoon. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 10 - Sittin' on the dock of the bay - wastin' time!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 11 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">A beautiful morning in the Straits of Mackinac as visitors at our mooring on St. Helena Island raised their sail and departed.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 11 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Geocaching in the woods</span></span> on St. Helena Island.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 11 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Pumping water - a seemingly never-ending island occupation</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 12 - It looked like the folks with the Round Island Lighthouse Preservation
Society were having a successful open house as we passed by on this
afternoon's Eastbound Shepler's Lighthouse Cruise</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 12 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Larry
Stowits served as a Coast Guard keeper at White Shoal Light Station in
northern Lake Michigan in 1959. Today, we were honored to be able to
arrange for him to take his first trip back to the station in 56 years.
Sadly, we were unable to accompany him as there was no room left on the
vessel. We would loved to have been able to record his memories as he
made his way through the station.</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 12 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Our
volunteers on St. Helena Island took the day off and kayaked around the
island to the site of the old village on the north side of the island.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 12 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Photo of the St. Helena Island Light Station taken from one of the station kayaks this afternoon.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 12 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">While
the flapping "flags" help discourage seagulls from the roll-out dock at
our St. Helena Island Light Station, they are by no means 100%
effective, and the dock requires frequent washing.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 13 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Another
keeper swap day at our St. Helena Island station. Always a bittersweet
day as one crew leaves and another arrives. Here the departing crew
washes their final batch of lunch dishes before heading back to the
mainland.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 13 - First-time keeper <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Dan
and his yellow lab Moxie arrived at St. Helena Island Light Station
earlier today, and are spending a quiet evening at the picnic table by
the tower.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 13 - Moxie guards the <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">supply-filled Rubbermaid tubs in the kitchen as Principal keeper
MaryAnn explains the layout of the land to new volunteer keepers Jill
and Reason.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 13 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Moxie checks-out today's rapidly rising water level at our roll-out dock.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 14 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Jill
is busy in the lighthouse cellar cleaning and organizing the
innumerable containers of nails, screws and miscellaneous hardware
required in order to be prepared to effect any kind of repair which may
rear its head.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 14 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Reason
uses a flashlight to get a good view as he applies a final touch-up of
plaster in preparation for priming the inner east wall of the assistant
keepers dwelling.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 14 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The
mother and daughter team of Phyllis and Robin are busy in the station
boathouse creating new signs for each of our four bedrooms on the second
floor of the dwelling at our St. Helena Island light station.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 14 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Boy
Scout Eli Levine's Eagle Scout project to install solar power in the
dwelling at our St. Helena Island Light Station came in handy today,
allowing us to use a crock pot to cook tonight's chili for our hungry
volunteers on the island.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 14 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Good evening world from the lantern at the St. Helena Island Light Station.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 15 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">21st
century ingenuity - St. Helena Island Light Station volunteer Robin
makes good use of a 5-gallon bucket, hot water from the on-demand
propane showers and a brand new toilet plunger as a washing machine to
wash some of her clothes.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 15 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Sometimes you just need to find an isolated place to clear your head - even on an isolated island.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 16 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">A
sailboat tied up to one of our offshore moorings at St. Helena Island
this morning and Reason headed out with one of our Zodiacs to bring them
to shore for a tour of the light station.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 16 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">We
were honored to have MaryAnn Moore, Principal Keeper at our St. Helena
Island Light Station, board the boat during today's Westbound Shepler's
Lighthouse Cruise. She took the mic and regaled people with a
description how our volunteers on the island get to live the keepers
life.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 16 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The view of St. Helena Island Light Station as seen while MaryAnn was at the mic this afternoon.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 17 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">John
and Helen Blythe are serving as our volunteer keepers at the Cheboygan
River Front Range Light for the next two weekends. They will be happy to
give you a tour of both the Front Range and the Cheboygan Crib Lights
if you are in the area - and don't forget to ask them to stamp you
lighthouse passport!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">UGLY ANNE loaded and ready to head out to St. Helena Island with 20
wonderful guests on our one day Lunch At St. Helena excursion.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 22 - UGLY ANNE beneath the Mackinac Bridge headed for St,. Helena Island Light Station.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 22 - Volunteers Pan and Susie in the summer kitchen at St. Helena <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">as
they prepare lunch for our guests while Corey Adkins of TV9&10
records the days activities for a future news closeup. (Moxie stands
guard in the event some of the foods makes its way to the floor!.)</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 22 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Our lunch guests were split up into smaller groups and given a tour of
the light station. Here long-time GLLKA volunteer Michelle (in the white
shirt) provides an overview of the history of the light station to her
group.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 22 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">A
group of lunch guests make their way through he lunch line in the
lighthouse summer kitchen. <br />We always eat well at St. Helena Island!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 22 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">What
better way to enjoy a wonderful lunch on a gorgeous northern Michigan
day than on the picnic benches at the foot of the lighthouse tower.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 22 - TV 9&10 Videographer
Corey Adkins interviews St. Helena Lighthouse Principal Keeper MaryAnn
Moore with the Mackinac Bridge visible seven miles to the east.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 22 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">After
lunch, our guests were given free time to explore the light station and
east end of the island on their own. Here, a small group of people look
for that "perfect shooting location" on the end of our crib dock.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 22 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Meanwhile, our volunteers cleaned the lunch dished behind the lighthouse in front of the assistant keepers dwelling.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 22 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">UGLY
ANNE Captain Chris West and one of our guests relax in the shade of the
boathouse and enjoy the unique view of the Straits of Mackinac.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 22 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Their
visit over, UGLY ANNE pulls away from the dock as some of our guests
lean over the side to get a "last minute shot" of the light station
before turning to head back to Mackinaw City.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 22 - With
the crowd gone, and just three volunteers remaining at the light
station, the wildlife with whom we share the island started to come out
of hiding. This young snowshoe hare stepped out onto the concrete
sidewalk to watch MaryAnn as she made her way around the station.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 22 - The
long day over, the setting sun cats its final rays on the upper part of
the lighthouse tower as our volunteers prepare to turn in for the
night. A big THANK YOU to all our volunteers who helped make our lunch
guests feel welcome, and a part of the story of this beautiful island.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 23 - A two-masted sailing vessel passed to the east of our St. Helena Island Light Station during lunch today.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhdEtW2aKx8TLuNS5wxrHgLVYnucaexXtJYvcvlC6s66MsOZkjbIoqnJKYzzpdGAKIJTIeqsZkBET2arzy2eHPYfsgOnJj3YevylTpPa07hCo55uc_JRIKX43hLYOshtncWHjHiMMqBCcy/s1600/002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhdEtW2aKx8TLuNS5wxrHgLVYnucaexXtJYvcvlC6s66MsOZkjbIoqnJKYzzpdGAKIJTIeqsZkBET2arzy2eHPYfsgOnJj3YevylTpPa07hCo55uc_JRIKX43hLYOshtncWHjHiMMqBCcy/s640/002.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 23 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Principal keeper MaryAnn suited up for combat with the poison ivy at our St. Helena Light Station this afternoon.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 23 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Goodnight world - we'll keep the light on for you!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 24 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The promise of a great new day on a peaceful island in northern Michigan.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 24 - Today, our St. Helena Island Light Station volunteers are repairing some
cracks in the wall in one of the bedrooms in the main dwelling.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 24 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Yet another beautiful sunset tonight from the gallery at our St. Helena Island Light Station. Sleep well everyone.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUp5TcIw4xp-MwVqiU7m46IZmwqiLvyh3Dsd8PM_AyZ1kS1oIIhkbxfLV4OqBGeGJsXVTcsPIMYQaGUgh6xtuo_QId3z4st3O9Qd6-In10EWvjwd_wKrlYMJhHAICQYi0lem_ME7bDAyc1/s1600/009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUp5TcIw4xp-MwVqiU7m46IZmwqiLvyh3Dsd8PM_AyZ1kS1oIIhkbxfLV4OqBGeGJsXVTcsPIMYQaGUgh6xtuo_QId3z4st3O9Qd6-In10EWvjwd_wKrlYMJhHAICQYi0lem_ME7bDAyc1/s640/009.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 25 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">St.
Helena Island Light Station Principal Keeper MaryAnn Moore is busy
patching some peeling plaster in one of the lighthouse bedrooms.
Maintenance is a never ending task in an unheated brick building on an
isolated island.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 25 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Today,
a 41-foot Tartan sailboat moored at St. Helena with a Student
Ministries Director, Captain and four teenage boys from the Youth Group
at Petoskey Presbyterian Church. They will be staying with us for a
couple of days and the boys will be doing some volunteer work. Here, we
see Jake, the Director and the four boys enjoying the old pump organ in
the lighthouse parlor.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 25 - The Petoskey Youth Group boat on the mooring in front of the light station.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 25 - The leader and boys from Petoskey jumped right in helping out in any way they could.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 26 - Today, Director Jake and the four young men with the Petoskey Youth
Group are busy moving stone to build up sinking areas around the
pathways at our St. Helena Island light station.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 26 - The boys work at filling-in with stone to the north of the boat house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 26 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The 335-foot PEARL MIST dwarfed the Mackinac Island dock yesterday during the eastbound Shepler's Lighthouse Cruise.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 26 - It was almost 90 degrees this afternoon, and Moxie took the opportunity to languish in the breeze on the St. Helena Island Light Station crib dock.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 26 - The Petoskey boys decided to take to the water to cool off. This group works and plays hard!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 26 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">MaryAnn took advantage of the cooler setting sun to repaint the license numbers on our Zodiac MARIGOLD.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 26 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The boys discovered a new use for our baggage wagons.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 26 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">You've got to hand it to these young men - they know how to work and play hard!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 27 - White Shoal Light Station as seen during tonight's Shepler's Westbound Sunset Cruise. <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The lake was so calm tonight that an 18-foot open runabout had made it out to the lighthouse!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 27 - Grays Reef Light Station as seen during tonight's Shepler's Westbound Sunset Cruise. You have to love northern Lake Michigan.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 28 - We have a group of quilters enjoying the the peace and quiet that only
an isolated island light station like St. Helena can afford.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 28 - With only limited solar-powered electricity on the island, hand sewing is the order of the day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 28 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Another beautiful sunset at our St. Helena Island Light Station. Surely, It doesn't get any better than this!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 29 - We received word that the <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">school sailing vessel INLAND SEAS from Suttons Bay is headed for St. Helena Island and should arrive in time for dinner.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 29 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">INLAND
SEAS arrived and is secured to one of our two moorings in
front of the light station. The crew and students will likely stay
overnight and head back south tomorrow evening. It's great to have Captain Ben
Hale back at St. Helena.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 29 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">10 high school and college students from the INLAND SEAS explore the lighthouse and meet our volunteers.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 29 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">INLAND SEAS Captain Ben Hale brought his fiddle to the dining room and filled the lighthouse with music.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">July 29 - As
music and happy voices filled the dwelling, the light blinked on to faithfully served
mariners as it has every night since September 20, 1873. Good night
from St. Helena Island.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 30 - The seemingly never ending task of filling in gravel at the inner end of
the roll-out dock continued today, as the crew of the INLAND SEAS
stepped up to help load gravel in preparation for pulling the dock from
the lake next month. THANKS for your help!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 30 - In the heat of the afternoon, some of the crew of INLAND SEA took the opportunity to cool of in the shade around the picnic tables at the east end of the lighthouse.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 30 - The INLAND SEAS will be casting-off after dinner this evening and making
her way back to Suttons Bay. Captain Ben used our large picnic table to spread out this charts to plot a course for their journey home.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">July 30 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">We
had high winds all day, and were unable to get the Fiddlers Workshop
participants out to St. Helena on schedule. By 7:00 PM, the winds abated
somewhat and we decided to send these fine folks out to the island
by Zodiac from the north shore. This photo shows our two Zodiacs
arriving on shore to pick up the Fiddlers Workshop participants to transport them to St. Helena Island, two miles off in the background. As you can see, it was a somewhat rough, but safe
trip.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Thursday June 11, we
launched our Zodiacs and sent a crew of four volunteers to prepare our
St. Helena Island Light Station for the arrival of a large group of
boys, leaders, parents and mentors with Ann Arbor Boy Scout Troop 4 this
Saturday. Principal keeper MaryAnn Moore sent us this photo she took at
the island this evening.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Friday evening, our Executive Director Terry Pepper narrated a Shepler's Westbound Lighthouse Cruise, and after stopping by St. Helena Island to wave goodnight to our volunteers, snapped this photo of the sun setting behind White Shoal Light Station.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saturday June 13 - UGLY ANNE pulled into the St. Helena Island Light Station dock and delivered the first group of <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">boy scouts, parents, mentors and leaders of Ann Arbor Boy Scout Troop 4 for their 26th year of service at the station.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saturday June 13 - The wonderful folks with
Ann Arbor Boy Scout Troop 4 installed the first of four solar panels on
the pole they installed during last year's Scout Week on the island.
What a wonderful group of people.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Saturday June 13 - For
his Eagle Scout Service Project at St. Helena Island this year, Boy
Scout Jack DeBacker is restoring the east wall of the Assistant keepers
dwelling, which has experienced some deterioration since the building
was reconstructed as an earlier Eagle Scout project in 1996 by Steve
Wise. Also, a recently discovered historic image of the building show
that the window was located in the center of the wall between the door
and corner, so Jack will he will be incorporating this change into his
project.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Saturday June 13 - For
his Eagle Scout project at St. Helena Island this year, Boy Scout Dave
DeBacker is restoring the privy roof. Originally restored as an Eagle
Scout project by Chris Morrison in 1990. After 25 years of exposure to
the worst that Lake Michigan could throw at it, the roof and vent stack
both need replacing. Thankfully, we had a sufficient quantity of thicker
shingles and cedar breather left over from the re-roofing of the
dwelling last year, that Dave will be able to use these materials in his
project. Here Dave and one of his Scout team mates can be seen
stripping the 25 year old shingles from the structure.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">When
Boy Scout Steve Wise reconstructed the dwelling for his Eagle Scout
service award in 1996, the only photo we had of the building was this
one, taken when it was in its original location. However, concrete steps
on the foundation of the building in its new location indicated that it
was erected as a mirror image of the original structure. As such, we
assumed that the window was installed tight against the door frame, as
seen here in the historic photo, and when Steve recreated he building we
designed the structure accordingly....</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">However,
we recently discovered this second historic photograph of the relocated
dwelling in the collection of the Coast Guard Historian's office in
Washington DC. Showing the boat house on the left and the relocated
assistat keepers dwelling on the right, it clearly shows that the window
was actually installed midway between the door and the corner of the
wall. As such, Jack DeBacker will be incorporating that change in his
reconstruction of the east end of the building over the coming week.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Saturday June 13 - When
we made our first trip of the 2015 season to our St. Helena Island
Light Station in late May, we found that we were unable to open the door
on the smaller of the two reconstructed assistant keepers dwelling at
the station. While the key turned and the bolt sounded as though it was
retracting, we were unable to budge it, even by placing a board against
the door and "persuading" it with a large<span class="text_exposed_show">
hammer. Since reconstruction of the building was completed by Troop 4
last year, we did not want to take the chance of damaging the door or
frame, and decided it best to leave it for the Troop to evaluate this
week. In order to ascertain whether the door was truly unlocking, or
not, one of the Troop adults helped one of the Scouts to enter the
building through the side window to check things out. Thankfully, it was
discovered that the lock mechanism is fie and the door had simply
swelled. It will be removed, planed and refitted over the coming week.
Great job folks!</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunday June 14 - It's a beautiful sunny day in the Straits of Mackinac today, and Boy
Scout Jack DeBacker is busy working on his Eagle Scout service award
restoration of the east wall of the assistant keepers dwelling at our
St. Helena Island Light Station.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wednesday June 17 - a second group of Scouts went out to St. Helena Island, and some of those where were o the island since Saturday, came off. Here they are loading supplies on the dock in Mackinaw City.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Wednesday June 17 - UGLY ANNE is loaded, and we will be heading out as soon as everyone dons their life jackets.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Wednesday June 17 - Captain Chris keeps an eye out for vessels as we make our approach to St. Helena Island.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Wednesday June 17 - The minute we pulled up to the new dock on St. Helena Island, the Scouts began transporting all their supplies down the dock and up to the lighthouse.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Wednesday June 17 - The
area immediately behind the summer kitchen is serving double duty as
lumber yard for the week's projects and as a dropping off point for
arriving group's supplies.</span></span></td></tr>
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Scout has his own dedicated sack containing plates, cups and
silverware, which they hang to dry on lines behind the lighthouse after
every meal's wash up.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Wednesday June 17 - The
solar array erected earlier by Boy Scout Eli Levine and his team now
has a brand new equipment building under construction. These structures
were carefully located behind these trees so that it is not visible when
moving around the light station proper. The building will be painted a
flat greenish-brown so that it will be virtually invisible to those
photographing from the south beach or from the lake.</span></span></td></tr>
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close view of the solar array and equipment building. This structure
will house the solar controller, inverter and batteries. Great work Eli
and team!</span></span></td></tr>
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Scout Dave DeBacker has completely stripped the old roof and was
installing new rafters. Next will come underlayment, cedar breather and
5/8" saw-cut shingles. It will look beautiful again! Great work Dave.</span></span></td></tr>
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Jack Debacker was not actively working on his Eagle Scout project to
restore the eastern end of the assistant keepers dwelling during the
short time we were on the island, so he had covered his work with a tarp
in case of rain.</span></span></td></tr>
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on shore in Mackinaw City, the departing group of Boy Scouts and family
members paused for a group shot before heading home to Ann Arbor. Great
Job folks - thank you so much for your service at St. Helena Island.</span></span><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"> </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Thursday June 18 - A
group of boys begin what is becoming a never ending task of building up
the approach to the dock as the lake level continues to rise.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Thursday June 18 - Laying out the location of one of an electrical outlet in the keepers office.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Thursday June 18 - A
new electrical outlet in the lighthouse living room. Being able to use a
vacuum cleaner will be of invaluable assistance in keeping the building
spic and span.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Thursday June 18 - Eli
Levine (yellow shirt) and one of his team members pulling wire through
the conduit leading from the solar array to the charge controller in the
new power center building,</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Thursday June 18 - Work
is underway on one of the roof sections for the power control building.
The elevated section in the center will have translucent panels
installed to allow light into the building.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Thursday June 18 - </span></span>This
answers the question "how many people does it take to rip a 2"x10"
for use on Boy Scout Dave Debacker's restoration of the privy roof </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Thursday June 18 - Licensed Electrician Bob Joslin (right) works with scout Eli Levine. The
Electrical permit was issued in Bob's name, and he has donated a full
week of his time on the island ensuring that every single step of the
electrification project is undertaken properly so that it will all pass
final inspection.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thursday June 18 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">New
soffit and fascia has been installed on Dave Debacker's restoration of
the privy roof, and his team is busy installing the underlayment in
preparation for the installation of cedar shingles.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Installation of underlayment continues on the north side of the privy roof.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thursday June 18 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Almost ready for ice and water shield, cedar breather and shingles.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thursday June 18 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Jack
Debacker (green shirt) takes a measurement for the window opening on
his project to restore the east wall of the assistant keepers dwelling.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Thursday June 18 - rain
late in the morning brought out the taps so work could continue as
plywood is installed on the wall of the assistant keepers dwelling.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Thursday June 18 - The plywood is installed, and we are ready for ice and water shield.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thursday June 18 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Jack
Debacker poses in the relocated window in the assistant keepers
dwelling. Next comes the installation of the window, trim and
clapboards.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunday June 21 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Eli
Levine's team installed the pole for the solar array and buried the
cable to the lighthouse in 2014. This year, his team erected the solar
array and this building, which houses the charge controller and the rank
of 8 batteries.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunday June 21 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Another
view of the electrical building next to the solar array. After the wood
has dried for a month, the building will be stained a flat
greenish-brown so the building is as unobtrusive as possible.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Sunday June 21 - Jack
Debacker's completed Eagle Scout restoration of the east wall of the
Assistant Keepers dwelling. We ran out of white primer and used a
cream color for the remainder of the new clapboards. Repainting the
entire building will make a great project for our summer volunteer
keepers.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunday June 21 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Another
view of the restored assistant keepers dwelling. The window looks great
in its correct historic location centered between the north wall and
the door.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunday June 21 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Boy
Scout Dave Debacker tackled the restoration of the privy roof for his
Eagle Scout service project. Once he stripped the roof, it was found
that all of the soffit and fascia and most of the rafters on the north
side were rotten, so the rebuild was more exhaustive than anticipated.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunday June 21 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">A closer view of the privy roof and its elegant tapered ridge cap and ornate vent stack.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Sunday June 21 - Back
in Mackinaw City, everyone pitched in to unload the boat and transport
everything down the dock to the parking lot, which was quickly filled
with cars waiting to head back to Ann Arbor.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunday June 21 - <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The retired icebreaker MACKINAW serves as an elegant backdrop as everything is wheeled down the dock.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Sunday June 21 - on Wednesday when we took out a new
group of scouts to the island, we brought a group back, along with all the trash generated on the island at that time. So, if you ever wonder how much
trash a troop of Scouts can generate in four days of living on a remote
Lake Michigan island, the answer is "this much!"</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A Huge and Hearty <b>THANK YOU</b> to all the boys, leaders, parents and mentors associated with Ann Arbor Boy Scout Troop 4. Your annual accomplishments at St. Helena Island are truly miraculous. We can't wait to do it again next year - your 27th amazing year in a row at the island. <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Dorothy
Smith and her son Charlie and daughter-in-law Leigh stopped by the
Cheboygan River Front Range Light yesterday. Dorothy's grandfather was
John Duffy, keeper of the Cheboygan Range Lights from 1899 to 1931.
Here, she paused during her tour to make an entry in the station
journal.</span></span></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2554450346573387914.post-3426491978702372962015-05-31T21:00:00.000-04:002015-06-22T21:41:18.834-04:002015 Opening Weekend - Day Two<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">A beautiful sunny Sunday at our St. Helena Island light station last weekend.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The
combination of improved weather and the poison ivy barely poking its
head through the ground created an irresistible opportunity for most of
our crew to set out across the the island to explore the site of the old
fishing village which existed on the north shore in the mid 1800's.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">This tree clearly took root many years after the fence was erected around the grave site of the young man who was buried here.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Ric Mixter proudly shows off his new friend "Wittle Fishy" whom he found on the
shore near the old village site. Knowing Ric, we would not be surprised
to see this fish showing up on his Facebook page at some tim. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><br />A
carefully placed foot gives dimension to this large pile of scat that
was lying out in the open trail. We can only wonder who might be
responsible - coyote, wolf, bobcat! The complete lack of evidence of any
of the once abundant snowshoe hares on the island bears witness to the
fact that there have been some larger predators on the island of late.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The
crew made numerous stops along the way to pause and pick up trash and
tale a close up look at wild flowers. Something really seems to have
everyone's attention here ....</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Walking
the shore in the bay around which the village was located 175 years
ago. Imagine the tales these beach stones could tell if only we could
understand them.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Ric
Mixter and Bob Brunais de-barking some cedars that Bob cut last year.
It is our plan to split them and use them in building a fence.</span></span></td></tr>
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of the final tasks was for Rc Mixter to don his dry suit and SCUBA gear
and dive on the two moorings we maintain offshore. Here we see Ric in
the water, MaryAnn Moore at the helm and Terry Pepper connecting the
buoy to the chain mooring. Note the whitecaps out in the water between
the island and the north shore.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Mike Finn and Jim Koch sift soil to remove any artifacts and to prepare it for use in the garden.</span></span></td></tr>
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the day wound down and we managed to cross just about all of our tasks
from "the list," most of the guys ended up helping out with garden
p[reparation.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The
marine weather forecast predicted that the water would begin
flattening-out after 6:00 PM on Sunday, and they were spot on. Here we
see our crew loading both of the Zodiacs ready for the trip back to the
mainland. For safety reasons, we made two round trips in each of the
boats.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">AMARANTH, the first of out two Zodiacs departs the dock headed for the mainland.</span></span></td></tr>
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we got out of the lee of the island, the waves picked up a little, and
everyone got a free shower before we made it to the mainland. The buoy
in the background marks the mooring we hooked up earlier that day.</span></span></td></tr>
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on te mainland, AMARANTH and MARIGOLD are loaded back on the trailer,
and ready to be put back in storage for a week. A HUGE Thank You to the
entire crew for helping out on this somewhat challenging weekend! Our
volunteers are AWESOME!</span></span></td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2554450346573387914.post-30582278418420298922015-05-30T22:00:00.000-04:002015-06-22T21:28:06.192-04:002015 Opening Weekend - Day One<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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boats and gear are all on the beach, and we are getting ready to head
out. St. Helena Island can be seen two miles offshore to the right.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Preparing to launch AMARANTH, one of our two fourteen-foot Zodiacs.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">AMARANTH in the water. Time to get the motor.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Getting ready to lower the motor and fire it up.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Because of all the gear we brought to the island for opening, we had to make a total of five round trips.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">AMARANTH makes her second trip to the island with a couple of freighters and the Mackinac Bridge in the background.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Both AMARANTH and MARIGOLD are tied up to the dock and we are bringing up the final load of supplies. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">After unloading all our gear, some time at the fire pit was called for to remove the chill from our bones.</span></span></td></tr>
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roll-out dock, which we pulled from the water at the end of the 2014
season, called us mockingly - reminding us that we would likely need to
get wet once again as we returned it to its summer position in the lake.</span></span></td></tr>
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before we tackled the dock, some lunch was in order. Clearly, Marie
Koch and Mary Pepper found something to brighten their day while
preparing pulled pork sandwiches and salad for the crew!</span></span></td></tr>
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two three PUSH. The dock makes a begrudging return to the lake.As the
only one with a dry suit, Ric Mixter volunteered to push the outer end.</span></span></td></tr>
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dock is in and leveled, and the crew pauses to give tribute to the
V-Dock Company which manufactured the roll-out dock system. Left to
Right - Ric Mixter, Bob Brunais, Steve Sheridan, Mike Finn, Jim Koch and
Terry Pepper.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Some of the crew returned to the fire pit to warm up before turning in at the end of a productive day.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Friday August 1 - The day started out foggy at St. Helena Island.. A perfect morning to burn the limbs and brush removed from the woods over the past few days.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Friday August 1 - As the skies cleared and the moisture dissipated at St. Helena Island, Carrie began painting the summer kitchen sofit and fascia she scraped and sanded yesterday. Looks great Carrie!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Saturday August 2 - Expecting a group of CITO (Cache in - Trash Out" geocachers to arrive on the island today, our volunteers laid out the guest book, some flowers and a batch of St. Helena mints to welcome them to the island.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Saturday August 2 - The geocachers arrived at the new dock, pulled their kayaks out of the water and began unpacking - ready for the hunt.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Saturday August 2 - One of the geocachers in the group at St. Helena Island hailed from Quebec, and kindly grabbed the broom and took on dock cleaning chores for the day .</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Saturday August 2 -With all the caches located, today's group of ten geocachers pause in front of the St. Helena Island assistant keepers dwelling for a photo opportunity before heading for their boats for the trip back to their departure point on Little Traverse Nature Conservancy property on the north shore.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Saturday August 2 - The geocachers prepare to leave St. Helena Island for the two mile trip back to the north shore with their bags filled with beach trash picked up while searching for island caches. Thanks for stopping by and for your help in keeping our island beautiful.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Sunday August 3 - As always, principal keeper MaryAnn is up to something today at our St. Helena Island light station. This hole plays an </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">integral</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> part in her latest project. Do you have any idea what she may be up to?</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sunday August 3 - Our shave hook makes a great place to remove the mark from the cedar post - and doubles as a workbench.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Monday August 4 - Today was an absolutely perfect day for an eastbound Shepler's lighthouse cruise, as shown as we passed the Cheboygan Crib on our way back into Lake Huron. Thursday evening at 8:00 PM our Executive Director Terry Pepper will be narrating a special evening eastbound cruise during which we will enter the Cheboygan River as darkness falls, using the range lights to find our way. Come up and join us!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tuesday August 5 - Another picture perfect day in the Straits of Mackinac for a Westbound Shepler's lighthouse cruise. Even our Executive Director Terry Pepper grabbed his camera to grab a quick snap of the Brig Niagara passing beneath the Mackinac Bridge.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tuesday August 5 - As part of this afternoon's westbound Shepler's Lighthouse Cruise, we dropped of seven people who will be participating in our Fiddler's Workshop on St. Helena Island for the next four days. It didn't take long for the folks to grab their instruments and begin seasoning the clean island air with music. Here Deb and Shawn lay down some tunes at the picnic table by the lighthouse tower.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Wednesday August 6 - While making a round through county waters in the Straits today, the Sheriff and undersheriff of Mackinac County pulled their boat into our dock at St. Helena Island to pay us a visit. After touring the light station and chatting with our volunteers, they cast off their lines and continued on their patrol. It is comforting to know that our new dock provides easy access to the island for such emergency help when needed.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sunday August 10 - Towards the end of last year's season at the St. Helena Island light station , we sunk a cedar post to a depth of six feet inland from the dock to serve as an anchor point from which to pull the rolling dock from the water.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sunday August 8 - This 3,000 lb. capacity "Superwinch" was attached to the cedar post using a nylon "tree saver" strap, and connected to the inner end of the dock by way of a number of nylon tow straps.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sunday August 8 - Connected to a 12 volt deep cycle marine battery, the small winch's extremely low gear ration had no problem breaking the dock's wheels free of the bottom, and easing it up on shore.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sunday August 10 - Here the dock is almost free of the water, and needs to be pulled around 20 feet further to come up against the post. With an extremely low gear ratio, the progress was slow, but the winch never faltered.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sunday August 10 - In order to pull the dock up against the post, we had to relocate the winch higher up the post and attach it to a pair of inner legs.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sunday August 10 - After pulling the dock all the way up onto land, we secured it to the post with a heavy duty ratchet strap. Four 2-foot long screw anchors were then augured into the rocky ground on each side of the dock and firmly secured to cleats on the uprights. The dock made it through last winter secured in this fashion, and we hope it will be waiting for us next season!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Wednesday August 13 - Although we are approaching closure of the St. Helena Island light station, volunteers Dick, Eli, Zoey and Taylor were still hard at work this morning picking up damage from the July, 2103 wind storm which ravaged the island, felling many trees. Great job folks!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tuesday July 1 - Spanning the centuries - 8 year old Cassidy Burns uses a 21st century battery powered tool to sharpen a writing utensil invented in 1795 at our 1873 St. Helena Island light station.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thursday July 3 - Materials have started arriving at our campus in Mackinaw City for the complete replacement of the roof at our St. Helena Island light station. Here we see this morning's delivery of 5/8" saw-cut cedar shingles, breathable membrane and ice and water shield.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thursday July 3 - Materials continue to arrive for the St. Helena Island light station roof replacement. Shown here are five 10 foot by 36 inch sheets of copper which will be cut on site to be used for flashing. Historically accurate lighthouse preservation is a costly undertaking.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thursday July 3 - We had visitors from the Grand Rapids at the St. Helena Island light station this afternoon. They were able to motor directly in and tie up at our new dock - something they never could have done at the old dock, even with the elevated water levels.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thursday July 3 - Long-time volunteer Mark Vandervelde assembles a gas grill at our St. Helena Island light station this afternoon. Great eats are in the offing for The Fourth!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thursday July 3 - Earlier this evening, Mark worked behind the boathouse building a bench to go on the end of the newly extended dock at our St. Helena Island light station.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Friday July 4 - With the Mackinac Bridge seven miles behind them, volunteers Michelle Vandervelde and Lori Jenks toil this morning to clear the area in which the roll-out dock will be stored for the winter season at our St. Helena Island light station. Thank you for your hard work - rest assured that it will be greatly appreciated by the dock removal crew later this season.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday July 4 - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">MaryAnn runs the pieces of the project through the sewing machine for her next step in making today's mystery item at the St. Helena Island light station. </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday July 4 - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Sewing weights into the hems of this afternoon's mystery project at the St. Helena Island light station. MaryAnn has been sewing since the age of four. She learned this skill on a treadle machine that belonged to her grandmother</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday July 4 - The mystery is revealed! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Being that it's July 4th, our volunteer keepers at the St. Helena Island light station have a great view of both the Mackinaw City and St. Ignace fireworks displays from the open door of the boathouse. The only problem is that it is a particularly buggy year, and Principal Keeper MaryAnn spent the afternoon sewing screens to go in the boathouse door opening so the gang can watch the display in comfort!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday July 4 - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">We had some evening visitors pull up at our new dock at the St. Helena Island light station this evening.. As is the case with all visitors, our volunteers gave them a full tour. Here, we see them in the lantern, bathed in the glow of the sinking</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"> sun. We are happy that word is spreading that we now have easy access for visitors with their own boats! We are proud of the work we have done and hope to share it with as many people as possible.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Friday July 4 - While our volunteers at the St. Helena Island light station get a great view of both the Mackinaw City and St. Ignace fireworks at either end of "The Bridge," they brought along their own island-safe "fireworks" in the form of colored glow sticks.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Saturday July 5 - Good morning from the St. Helena Island light station - Heaven on Earth!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday July 5 - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">GLLKA Executive Director Terry Pepper narrated an eastbound Shepler's Lighthouse Cruise this afternoon. Judging from the smiling faces of the folks on the upper deck as we rounded Bois Blanc Island headed for Poe Reef, a great time was had </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">by all. If you have not yet taken one of Shepler's Lighthouse Cruises, you are missing out on a great afternoon of blue skies, lighthouses, endless horizons and fun. And you just might learn something about lighthouses you did not know!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday July 5 - </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">St. Helana </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">Island</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> light station volunteers Michelle and Mark Vandervelde get "up close and personal" with the island's flora. Wonder what they could be shooting!</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Saturday July 5 - Their quarry - <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">the elusive Cypripedium reginae - the Showy Lady Slipper. This patch has reappeared for the past few years, but is particularly abundant and beautiful this summer.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Saturday July 5 - St. Helena Island light station volunteer keeper Lori has an amazing ability with a hand-held router, which she elegantly displays here while routing the back of a bench the keepers have been making to grace the end of our new dock. This is the second such bench the crew have made, the first one being blown from the dock in an 85 mph wind storm on July 18 of last year. This one will be bolted in place!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday July 5 - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Hogan works on a ladder which will be installed on the new dock at the St. Helena Island light station. Because the dock is in clear, deep water, everyone looks forward to swimming from it, and a ladder with which to climb back onto the dock will make the experience that much more enjoyable.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday July 5 - </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keepers Mark (in the water) and Hogan (on the dock) install cleats on the surface of the new dock at the St. Helena Island light station to which the new ladder will be attached. Look at that crystal clear water - we can't wait to dive from the dock when we head out with the roofing crew next week</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday July 6 - </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keepers Mark (in the water) and Hogan (on the dock) install cleats on the surface of the new dock at the St. Helena Island light station to which the new ladder will be attached. Look at that crystal clear water - we can't wait to dive from the dock when we head out with the roofing crew next week</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday July 6 - </span><span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; outline: none; text-align: left; width: auto;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">With the shelf completed in the niche at the base of the tower at the St. Helena Island light station by Mark and Hogan earlier this morning, Principal Keeper MaryAnn set about moving critical safety supplies that are kept at the base of the tower onto the new shelves from their various prior locations.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday July 6 - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Tomorrow is the big day when we move around.10,000 lbs. of material and equipment out to the St. Helena Island light station for the contractors to replacing the cedar shingle roof on the lighthouse dwelling. With a walk of almost 500 feet along the dock in Mackinaw City to the UNGLY ANNE which we have chartered to carry the material to the island in two trips over the day, we needed some way to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">tr</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">ansport everything along the dock to the boat. Thanks to the continuing generosity of our members and supporters, today we were able to purchase and assemble this pair of 54” X 28” carts. With removable sides and a capacity of 1,000 lbs. each, they will save a lot of backs tomorrow, and will become a welcome addition at St. Helena Island where they will fit the 30” wide concrete walkways and be used for transporting luggage, water, propane and the innumerable Rubbermaid tubs we transport every season</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday July 7 - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">A shot out the stern of the loaded boat as we made our way west into lake Michigan for the 8 mile trip to St. Helena island.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday July 7 - </span><span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; outline: none; text-align: left; width: auto;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">After tying-up to one of our permanent moorings off the island, MaryAnn and Hogan came out to meet us in our two Zodiacs, and the process of moving everything to shore was underway. Here we see a nice load of shingles making its way to shore.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday July 7 - With the Mackinac Bridge as a backdrop, </span><span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; outline: none; text-align: left; width: auto;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">MaryAnn and roofer Billy carefully handling a combination load of ladders, shingles, ice and water shield to the island dock.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday July 7 - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Over the remainder of the evening, the island volunteers transported everything 300 feet up the walkway to the lighthouse. Much of this heavy stuff had to be handled 7 times to get it out to the island - Loading onto the trailer at our office; loading onto carts for the trip out the dock, unloading from the carts onto the dock, passing from the dock to the UGLY ANNE, passing from UGLY ANNE to the </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Zodiacs, passing from the Zodiacs onto the island dock, and finally by cart from the island dock to lighthouse. A big THANK you to our wonderful volunteers MaryAnn, Lori, Hogan, Mark, Michelle and Mike and to Captain Chris and crew member Amber for their landmark work in moving all this material. AMAZING WORK EVERYONE </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday July 8 - </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, the other two members of the roofing team at the St. Helena Island light station set about removing the existing 1/2" cedar shingles from the summer kitchen roof. Happily, it appears that the rafters and decking are in good condition in this area, and installation of new heavy duty ice and water shield, a breathable mesh underlayment and 5/8" shingles will be able to start soon.</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday July 8 - </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, the other two members of the roofing team at the St. Helena Island light station set about removing the existing 1/2" cedar shingles from the summer kitchen roof. Happily, it appears that the rafters and decking are in good condition in this area, and installation of new heavy duty ice and water shield, a breathable mesh underlayment and 5/8" shingles will be able to start soon.</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday July 8 - </span><span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" style="color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 18px; outline: none; text-align: left; width: auto;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Today, Lori finished her hand routing of the new bench for the dock at the St. Helena Island light station by painting her wonderful handiwork. This bench will make a wonderful place to sit and enjoy the rising sun. The "#2" at the upper right indicates that this is the second such bench she has crafted, the first having been washed away during the major storm of July 18, 2014.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday July 8 - </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">This morning was the final morning a week of volunteering on St. Helena Island the incredible team of Mark, Michelle, Lori and Hogan, who have been coming to the island for many years. Here, Hogan sits on the dock waiting the arrival of the Shepler's motor vessel HOPE, which was heading to the island to pick up the foursome and return them to the hubub of the 21st century. Saying goodbye to the island is always a bittersweet moment for our volunteers.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday July 8 - </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">The Shepler's motor vessel HOPE pulled into the bay in front of the St. Helena Island light station as part of a westbound lighthouse cruise at 2:30 this afternoon, and the station Zodiacs with MaryAnn and Pan at the helms pulled up alongside one after the other. Here, Lori and Michelle have already climbed the ladder, and Hogan and Mark are about to follow, with all their gear passed up behind them.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Wednesday July 9 - What does the roofing crew at the St. Helena Island lighthouse do to unwind after a hard day's work? They brought their own boat at the end of the day Monday, and with tonight being the first beautiful evening since their arrival, they are heading out to try to catch some smallmouth bass. Hopefully they will be successful and everyone can enjoy fresh fish for lunch tomorrow.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thursday July 10 - We had three groups of visitors stop by the St. Helena Island light station today. The folks in this boat hailed from Nebraska, and put their boat in at St. Ignace and made the ten mile run out to see the island.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thursday July 10 - When we left the island at 5:00 PM, the roofing crew at the St. Helena Island light station were starting to install the new 5/8" shingles on top of cedar breather on the north side of the dwelling roof. They expect to have the job complete next Wednesday and we plan on removing all of their gear by boat on Thursday. Stay tuned.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Friday July 11 - The Mihm Construction crew continues shingling the north side of the dwelling roof at our St. Helena Island light station today.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Saturday July 12 - The roofing crew finished shingling the north roof of the dwelling at our St. Helena Island light station late Friday evening and then left for some R&R. We expect them back on site Sunday or Monday.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sunday July 13- MayAnn Moore, principal keeper at our St. Helena Island light station was busy this morning making some adjustments to the anchors which secure our roll-out dock to the lake bottom.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sunday July 13 - With the work crew back on the job today, work is underway on installing cedar breather and 5/8" cedar shingles on the south roof of the dwelling at the St. Helena Island light station. A beautiful day in The Straits of Mackinac.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sunday July 13 - As the shadows grew at the St. Helena Island light station this evening, the roofing crew were rapidly approaching the ridge on the south side of the dwelling. Tomorrow, they should reach the apex and install the ridge cap. Then they will likely move on to the roof of the summer kitchen.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sunday July 13 - When the roofing crew returned to St. Helena Island light station Saturday evening after a day away from roofing, it was clear what Billy and Mike had been up to, as they brought a couple of nice smallmouth bass with them (see inset). Here we see these beauties dancing on the stove - giving their all to a great supper for a hungry crew</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Monday July 14 - The roofing crew at St. Helena Island light station reached the ridge line of the south side of the roof this morning. Check out that beautiful copper step flashing against the chimney. It wont stay that way long!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Monday July 14 - Back in 2012, 12 year old Taylor Anderson heard we needed money to re-roof our St. Helena Island light station. In early 2013, Taylor held bake sales in his yard and raised $200, which he presented to us when he and his Mom came to volunteer on the island late last summer. Here roofer Billy Mihm holds a special shingle which he was about to install on the kitchen roof today. THANK YOU Taylor. You are an awesome young man.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Monday July 14 - The wonders of modern technology - even at our isolated St. Helena Island light station ... At 6:00 this evening our Executive Director Terry Pepper)received an email with this photo attached from principal keeper MaryAnn, informing him that the roofers needed five more tubes of this caulk. A 20 mile drive to Petoskey after supper, and the tubes are in-hand. MaryAnn will make the two mile run to the north shore in one of our Zodiacs tomorrow morning where I will be waiting to hand them off to her so the work can continue uninterrupted. Life is good.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tuesday July 15 - From tour leader Fran Jehrio, here is a photo of the participants in our overnight excursion to see the lighthouses of Isle Royale last week. They group is standing in front of the SEA HUNTER III, which we chartered to take them to and from the island from Grand Portage, Minnesota.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 18px; outline: none; text-align: left; width: auto;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Wednesday July 16 - As shown in this photo taken by MaryAnn this evening, installation of the new roof at our St. Helena Island light station is complete. Tomorrow at 8:00 am, we head out to the island to remove the crew and all their equipment. The new roof looks beautiful, and will hopefully last us another 30 years. A big thank you to everyone who helped us put this important preservation project together.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Wednesday July 16 - Another view of the finished roof at the St. Helena Island light station from. A beautiful Wednesday evening in northern Lake Michigan</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thursday July 17 - The weather this morning in The Straits of Mackinac was perfect for our trip out to our St. Helena Island light station to bring the roofing crew and all their equipment back to the mainland. We took the opportunity of a very calm morning to make a test run of bringing the UGLY ANNE up to our new roll out dock. Next year we hope to offer day trips out to the island using this dock, and today's flawless test proved the potential.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thursday July 17 - Volunteers Karen, Lee, Judy and Gary arrived at our St. Helena Island light station on Tuesday via Shepler's Westbound Lighthouse cruise. Here the foursome take a break in the shade by the lighthouse tower after working the afternoon loading and pushing wheelbarrow loads of beach gravel to improve the path down to the new dock.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thursday July 17 - Here is where all the stone ended up that Karen, Lee, Judy and Gary loaded into wheelbarrows and carried down to the beach. This improvement will dramatically improve access to the dock for the remainder of the season. Thanks for your hard work - we would be nothing without our wonderful volunteers. Give it a try - volunteer at your favorite lighthouse!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Friday July 18 - It appears that it is not only boats that appreciate our new dock at the ST. Helena Island light station. This morning, a North American River otter decided the dock would make a great place to catch a a little sun.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tuesday July 22 - A beautiful red sunrise this morning serves as a harbinger for changing weather as the barometer drops through the rest of the day. The weather for Wednesday looks better, which is a good thing, since we plan on taking out the participants in four day our Silver Clay workshop on a westbound Shepler's lighthouse cruise.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 18px; outline: none; text-align: left; width: auto;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tuesday July 22 - Larry Cunningham and Greg Lubin cutting brush.in the area where the new St. Helena Island dock is stored for the winter.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Wednesday July 23 - At the start of today's westbound Shepler's lighthouse cruise, we dropped of six people who will be participating in a workshop at St. Helena Island during which they will learn how to make Silver Clay jewelry. Here, jewelry maker Rosemary Gould leads the first workshop session in the station boathouse. We look forward to seeing what these folks end up creating over the coming days.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Saturday July 26 - Attendees of our silver clay jewelry workshop gather for a group photo behind their creations in the kitchen of the St. Helena Island light station yesterday. Jewelry maker Rosemary Gould, who lead the workshop can be seen at the center. From what we hear, everyone enjoyed the workshop so much that a follow-up is being discussed for next summer.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Wednesday July 30 - a year ago on July 18, 2013, a major storm in the Straits of Mackinac. With winds in excess of 85 miles an hour, it toppled a large number of trees at our St. Helena Island light station and blew a northbound semi on its side as it crossed the Mackina</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">c Bridge. A little over a year later, we are still recovering from the storm on the island. This afternoon, Principal keeper MaryAnn Moore moved yet another in a seemingly endless stream of wheelbarrow loads of downed timber to the beach for burning.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Thursday July 31 - At 1:00 o'clock this afternoon, GLLKA Executive Director Terry Pepper drew the winning ticket for our raffle to climb to the top of the Mackinac Bridge. </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">A big THANK YOU to everyone who purchased tickets. The money will be used in supporting our lighthouse restoration, preservation and education initiatives.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Friday June 27 - Steve Sheridan, Terry Pepper, Mike Crawford and Mary Pepper arrived on St. Helena island to begin assembly of the final two section of our dock to take it out to the five foot depth at its outer end. Here Steve Sheridan and Mike Crawford assemble the main support components in the boat house.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Saturday June 28 - </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Early in the afternoon at the St. Helena Island light station the extended dock was run out and assembled, and while Steve Sheridan installed the shore ramps in the foreground, Taylor Anderson and Terry Pepper prepared to begin leveling each section.</span></span></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2554450346573387914.post-68424343057358011122014-06-20T23:16:00.000-04:002014-07-03T23:59:28.289-04:00Scout Week 2014 at St. Helena Island<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Monday June 16 - The incredible boys, parents and advisers associated with Ann Arbor Boy Scout Troop 4 have been back on St. Helena Island working their annual week of miracles since Saturday. Here Scout Troy Morgan works on his Eagle Scout project to complete the interior finishing of the original assistant keepers dwelling. The building itself was erected by his brother over the past two years in order to earn his Eagle Scout award.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; outline: none; text-align: left; width: auto;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Monday June 16 - For his Eagle Scout project, Boy Scot Eli Levine is installing a solar-powered electrical system to the lighthouse. Here, a Sono tube has been placed in a four-foot deep excavated hole 300 feet to the west of the lighthouse into which the main support post for the solar array will be placed and filled with concrete.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; outline: none; text-align: left; width: auto;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Monday June 16 - In order to get electricity from the solar array to the lighthouse for his Eagle Scout project, Eli Levine and his fellow Scouts are hand excavating a 300 foot long trench between a grove of trees. The white building to the right is the replicated original assistant keepers dwelling built as two Eagle Scout projects by brothers Spencer and Troy Morgan. Great work Troop 4.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">... Secured the pole to the railing with sturdy stainless steel U-bolts .....</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">.... and Old Glory was once again proudly flying over the St. Helena Island light station</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>JULY 1 </b>- St.
Helena Island is not only a beautiful place by virtue of our
lighthouse which is <br />located on the small islet at its southeastern
corner. The remainder of the island is<br />part of the Little Traverse
Nature Conservancy which celebrates and preserves the<br />pristine natural
beauty of the main island. The natural beauty which abounds on the<br />island is exemplified by this splendid stand of Showy Lady Slippers
(Cypripedium <br />reginae) only 1/8 of the expanse of which is visible in
this photograph. If you are <br />interested in more information about this rare plant, Click <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypripedium_reginae" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b> </a>to go to the<br />Wikipedia page on this beautiful wild flower.</span><br /> </span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JULY 2</b> - Clearly,
some of the fauna on St. Helena Island have a very different
understanding of the purpose of toilet paper than the humans living on
the island!</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>July 4 </b>- Volunteer
Mark VanderVelde spent this morning building a bench to be placed on
our new dock at the St. Helena Island light station.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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Mark finished building the new bench for our new dock, Lori Jenks
picked up the router and hand-routed "HEAVEN ON EARTH" on the seating
surface of the new bench. Free-hand lettering with a router requires a
steady hand, and Lori is a master at the art.</span></span></span><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"><span class="fbPhotoTagListTag tagItem"><a class="textTagHovercardLink taggee" data-hovercard-instant="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=10151595347529682&type=mediatag&media_info=6.10151595302124682" data-tag="10151595347529682" href="http://www.blogger.com/null"> </a></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JULY 5 -</b> Volunteers
Michele VanderVelde, Joe Lane and Lori Jenks washing the lantern<br />windows at the St. Helena Island light station this morning. On hot
summer days<br />such as this, works starts early so as to avoid the heat of
the midday sun.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JULY 5 -</b></span></span></span>We
make maximum use of the oil storage building at our St. Helena Island
light<br />station, using it to store all our flammable liquids. However,
with only one shelf, things<br />quickly got disorganized. After we
transported a second set of steel shelves to the island<br />during the
Shepler's Westbound Lighthouse Cruise last Wednesday, head keeper
<br />MaryAnn Moore removed everything from the building, installed the new
shelves, and<br />returned everything to the building in an organized manner.
THANK YOU for taking care<br />of this much needed improvement MaryAnn!</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JULY 5 -</b></span></span></span>A
busy day at our St. Helena Island light station. Volunteers Michelle<br />VanderVelde and Lori Jenks are painting the shutters on the dwelling
the correct<br />green coloration after many years of being painted the
incorrect brown color seen here.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JULY 5 -</b></span></span></span>MaryAnn
Moore, volunteer principal keeper at our St. Helena Island light spent<br />part of today pruning branches which are intruding into the path which
leads to the pit<br />toilets at the St. Helena Island light station.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" style="font-size: small;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JULY 5 -</b></span></span></span>We
are elated to see that Michelle and Lori finished painting all three
sets of shutters on the south side of the lighthouse today. Thank you
both for your hard work - it looks GREAT!</span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="userContent"><b>JULY 6</b> - Here are the fruits of Mark and Lori's labor -
the new bench they built and routed for our new dock. Great work! Our
volunteers are great - we couldn't do it without their selfless
assistance.</span></span></td></tr>
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he designed and built. This<br />wash stand will get some heavy use, as it is
to be placed outside the summer kitchen<br /> at our St. Helena Island light
station. Super work Mike - thanks for your help.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="userContent"><b>JULY 6</b> - Painting the shutters on the second floor
windows on the east end of the<br />lighthouse is certainly not as easy as
painting those on the first floor. Here, painter<br />Michelle VenderVelde
and "spotter" Lori Jenks tackle the task with the aid of a long<br />roller
handle. Great going ladies - LOVE those green shutters. I can't wait to
see<br />them on the Shepler's Westbound Lighthouse Cruise on Tuesday!</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JULY 11</b> - The
early morning sun bathes the light station to welcomes everyone to a
new day of service and discovery at our St. Helena Island light station
this morning.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" style="font-size: small;" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>JULY 11 </b>- Volunteer
keeper Carrie Burkett sanding and repainting clapboards on the
boathouse at our St. Helena Island light station this morning.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JULY 11 </b>- Volunteer
keepers Deb Fork and Susie Safford busy in the summer kitchen at out
St. Helena Island light station preparing a big garden salad to go with
tonight's supper at the St. Helena Island light station. If you are
interested in volunteering at either of our lighthouses, go to our
website at <a href="http://www.gllka.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">www.gllka.com</a> and click on the "Volunteer at Cheboygan" or "Volunteer at St. Helena " links for more information.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>JULY 12</b> - The view from the outside dining area at the St. Helena Island light station this morning. In just a few days, this vista will be filled with sail boats heading for the bridge and Mackinac Island beyond as they rush to the finish of the annual Chicago to Mackinac race.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">JULY 14 - <b><span style="font-weight: normal;">We seldom know the skills and preferences our new volunteers have<br /> when
they arrive to help us at our lighthouses. Soon after volunteer<br />Carrie
Burkett arrived at our St. Helena Island light station on Wednesday<br />July
10 it became clear that she was an excellent painter who thankfully<br />loved to
paint. Eager to help out, Carrie has sent most of the past for days<br />sanding and painting the exterior of the boathouse, which is looking great as a result. <br />A
big THANK you to Carrie and all our wonderful volunteers who give so
willingly of their time and energy in helping keep the St. Helena dream
alive.</span></b></span></span></span></h5>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="userContent"><b>JULY 15</b> - Volunteers Claudia Douglas and Carrie Burkett
take time to relax and enjoy the bench at the end of our new dock at St.
Helena Island light station this afternoon. You can make some great new
friends at an island lighthouse, free from the stresses of modern day
life.</span></span></td></tr>
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clouded over quickly and it rained early this evening, providing some
relief from the elevated temperatures. However, the rain did not last
long, and our volunteers at the St. Helena Island light station were
treated to a beautiful evening.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="userContent"><b>JULY 19</b> - We had a short but violent pop-up storm blast
through the Straits of Mackinac<br />at around 9:30 last night. While our
volunteers at the light station all fared well, secure<br />within the
dwelling, "Old Glory" and its normally vertical pole on the gallery
railing<br />did not fare so well.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="userContent"><b>JULY 19 </b>- This trunk of a triple-trunked cedar tree at
the northeast corner of the<br /> lighthouse was another casualty of last
night's storm which blew through<br />the St. Helena Island light station. Fortunately, the trunk narrowly missed the<br />information display built by
Boy Scout Karl Koto, for which he earned his<br />Eagle Scout service award
twenty years ago this year.</span></span></td></tr>
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light station which toppled during last night's storm. We used to call
this the "stadium seating" because it's low hanging curved branch served
as a great place to sit and watch the many birds which frequented this
group of trees.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="userContent"><b>JULY 19 </b>- The final fallen tree photo from last night's
squall at the St. Helena Island light station - this one on the south
side of the lighthouse. We were very fortunate that none of the trees
caused any damage to the station infrastructure, and even more fortunate
that our stalwart volunteers were able to weather the blow within the
safe confines of the main and assistant keepers dwellings.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><b>JULY 19</b> - Our St. Helena Island light station was not the only location in the Straits of<br />Mackinac to suffer during last night's storm, as can be seen in this photograph courtesy<br />of 9&10 News which shows a semi which was blown over by the high winds as it was<br />headed towards the Upper Peninsula across the Mackinac Bridge.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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Chuck and Carol Lambert rehang the<br />repainted screen door at the summer
kitchen at the St. Helena light<br />station this afternoon. Thanks for the
wonderful help folks!</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JULY 24 </b>- We
have a beautiful old barrel which has been sitting outside<br />the door at
the rear of the St. Helena Island light station, and while we are<br />not
sure exactly how it came to be there or what purpose it serves, it<br />has
been slowly deteriorating over the years. Volunteer Chuck Lambert<br />felt
pity for the barrel, and put some energy and time into restoring it this
week.<br />Part of the process involved hand-crafting these special nails to
hold<br />one of the loosening hoops in place.</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JULY 24</b> - While
we are still in the dark as to the specific purpose of<br />the barrel, it
sure looks great since Chuck devoted his time and energy<br />to its
rejuvenation! Thanks Chuck!</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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Chuck Lambert and Susie Safford take time to pose with their progress
in cutting up one of the trees which was toppled by the wind storm which
hit the St. Helena Island light station a week ago. The devastation of
the storm is necessarily being taken care of slowly in order to ensure
the safety of our wonderful volunteers. Thank you so much for your
dedication.</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><b>JULY 26</b> - This afternoon's steady rains gave way to a beautiful evening
replete with a rainbow to wave farewell to another great day at the St.
Helena Island light station.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><b>JULY 27 </b>- Although they had already spent a week on the
island in late June, Bob and Sue Brunais kindly volunteered to return to
the island today for a couple of days. Bob is a master with a chain saw and his
expertise is welcomed in helping remove some of the remaining trees
which fell during the July 18 storm.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><b>JULY 27</b> - Thanks to the chainsaw skills of Bob Brunais,
the cedar trunk which was hung up between two adjacent trunks at the St.
Helena Island light station was safely removed, again opening the
sidewalk to foot traffic.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JULY 27 </b>- Volunteers Jamie Anderson and Sally Bingham busy washing lunch dishes at the St. Helena Island light station earlier today.</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JULY 27</b> - Our
wonderful volunteers enjoy a restful "al fresco" dinner this evening
after a hard day of work at the St. Helena Island light station. If this
looks like something you might like to do, click the following link to
learn more.<br /> <a href="http://www.gllka.com/preservation/lights/sthelena/volunteer/st_helena_volunteer.htm" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.gllka.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>preservation/lights/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>sthelena/volunteer/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>st_helena_volunteer.htm</a></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JULY 27</b> - Lest
we give the impression that it's "all work and no play" for our
volunteers at the St. Helena Island light station, here we see Eric and
Jamie Anderson and their son Taylor and Pan Godchaux returning from a
kayak trip around the island earlier today</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JULY 28</b> - An
early start for the day as volunteers Bob and Sue Brunais clean up
broken limbs on an apple tree to the south of the St. Helena Island
light station.</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JULY 28</b> - After
we removed the cedar that was hung up between two sister trunks at the
northeast corner of the St. Helena Island lighthouse, we found that its
sisters were in very bad condition, showing major cracks and insect
damage.</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JULY 28 -</b> Since
the two remaining trunks could do considerable damage to the dwelling
and the information kiosk, we felt we had no alternative but to remove
them.</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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it will take some getting used to the visual change, the removal of the
trees which were formerly located directly in front of the tower at the
St. Helena Island light station brings the light station closer to its
appearance 100 years ago.</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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Scout Boy Scout Troop 4 pause from their reconstruction of the original
assistant keepers dwelling at the St. Helena Island light station for a
group portrait this morning. This year marks the <span class="text_exposed_show">24th
year that the folks with this wonderful troop have come to St. Helena
Island to work their miracles. A rousing <b><span style="color: red;">THANK YOU</span></b> to all involved, and
we eagerly anticipate to celebrating our 25th year of collaboration in
2014.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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Arbor Boy Scout Troop 4 continued their work on the reconstructed
original assistant keepers dwelling today, installing clapboard on the
south wall. We will continue to post on their progress throughout the
week as they bring this two-year project to completion.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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kitchen at the St. Helena Island light station is a busy place during
Scout Week, as it takes a kitchen full of cooks and their helpers to
feed the 50 Scouts, leaders and family members living and working on the
island - and boy, do they eat well!</span></span></span></td></tr>
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boys of Ann Arbor Scout Troop 4 continue their reconstruction of the
original assistant keepers dwelling at our St. Helena Island light
station this morning. Note that clapboards are being installed on the
north wall.</span></span></span><br />
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member Mike Finn spent the morning assembling and inflating the first of our two new fourteen-foot Zodiac Bombard C4' inflatable boats. This black one has been christened AMARANTH, and if all goes well we plan on taking her for a break-in run to St. Helena Island tomorrow morning.</span></span><br />
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lantern gallery view of the boys, leaders and family members of Ann
Arbor Boy Scout Troop 4 enjoying lunch at the foot of the tower at our
St. Helena Island light station today. You can't beat it when the
weather cooperates and allows "al fresco" dining </span></span></span></td></tr>
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year during Scout Week at our St. Helena Island light station, the boys
of Ann Arbor Troop 4 help cut the dead-falls and bushes and trees which
grow around the light station since the last season. A long standing
tradition is that every Tuesday of Scout Week, the boys take all the
brush they have cut and build a huge bonfire on the beach in front of
the lighthouse. This year is no exception, as witnessed by this year's
growing pile.</span></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption"></td><td class="tr-caption"></td><td class="tr-caption"></td><td class="tr-caption"></td><td class="tr-caption"></td></tr>
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let yourself be lulled into thinking that owning a Great Lakes
lighthouse is all fun and games. Our lighthouses were erected in wide
open areas and subjected to the worst that the Lakes can throw at them.
During our first trip to St. Helena Island light station this year, we
found that one of the tower windows had somehow become unlatched over
the winter, and buffeting winds had broken it apart as they smashed it
open and closed in its frame.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr align="justify"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JUNE 19</b> - While on the island, Terry Pepper and Mike Finn observed the progress on the reconstructed original assistant keepers dwelling. This incredible
reconstruction is being undertaken as an Eagle Scout project by Boy
Scout Spencer Morgan. As witness to the long-standing dedication of the
wonderful folk with Ann Arbor Boy Scout Troop 4, Chris Morrison attained
the rank of Eagle Scout through his restoration oi the the privy to the
right in the photograph back in 1990 - 23 years ago! <b><span style="color: red;">GREAT WORK</span></b> <b>Spencer!</b></span></span></span></td></tr>
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Morgan has completed the installation of all the clapboard siding on
his recreation of the original assistant keepers dwelling, and here we
see he and his fellow Scouts of Ann Arbor Troop 4 painting. When he and
the troop leave the Island Saturday, the exterior of the building will
be complete. Spencer's brother plans on attaining his Eagle Scout badge
next year through recreation of the building's interior.</span></span></span><br />
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boy scouts and leaders with Ann Arbor Troop 4 line up for dinner at the
St. Helena Island light station this evening. It takes a lot of food to
feed a total of 60 people. Every bit of it has to be brought 8 miles
from the mainland, and all the resulting trash has to be taken back to
shore. A lesson in logistics!</span></span></span></td></tr>
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vent atop our oil storage building at St. Helena was in pretty bad
shape, having been riddled with shot by rabbit hunters over the years.
However, it still served useful in that it served as a pattern for the
folks with the Harbor Point Association in their recreation of the oil
house which used to be located at the Little Traverse light station.
When they contracted with a local fabricator to<span class="text_exposed_show">
make their vent, the wonderful Harbor Point folks had a second vent
fabricated and gave it to us for our oil house as a "thank you" for
providing the information needed. As seen here, yesterday afternoon two
Ann Arbor Troop 4 Boy Scout fathers installed the replica vent,
returning the oil house to its original appearance. A rousing <b><span style="color: red;">THANK YOU</span></b>
to everyone involved in this project.</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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loaded up all the components of the new dock in some heavy rain this
morning and headed out to St. Helena Island. As we made our way west,
the weather began to clear. It was a welcome sight to see our two new
Zodiacs awaiting our arrival to transport the components and crew to
shore. Here we see most of the components sitting on the old dock
waiting to be carried to the assembly area. Note the lower ends of the
boat car track standing clear of the water, showing how shallow the
water is, and the dire need for the new dock in deeper water. A big <span style="color: red;"><b>THANK YOU</b></span> to the crew of Steve Sheridan, Mike Crawford, Jack Sheridan and Mike Finn who came out to assemble and install the dock in record time </span></span></span></td></tr>
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had already located the best location for the new dock. A big <b><span style="color: red;">THANK YOU</span></b> to Bob Brunais whe lead a group of volunteers in clearing and laying many wheelbarrow loads of beach
stone to create this new trail leading from the dock site to the
lighthouse,</span></span></span></td></tr>
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we see the first of eight all-aluminum dock frame sections being
assembled in the St. Helena Island boat house. We decided to do the
primary assembly in the boat house because of the flat work surface it
provided, and also because we would be able to continue working
uninterrupted in the event of rain.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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we managed to avoid rain after the early drenching, as shown in this
photo of one of the eight completed main frame sections being removed
from the boat house for carrying to the new dock location. The dock
decking is manufactured of fiber-reinforced plastic, and can me seen
stacked in the rear of the photograph.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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are happy to report that our first keeper swap as part of a Sheplers
Westbound Lighthouse cruise was a rousing success! Six new volunteer
keepers were delivered to St. Helena Island and four taken off along with
all their gear, in just fifteen minutes. The guests on the cruise
appeared to enjoy observing the process and having the opportunity to
talk with folks who had been volunteering at the light station. We are
also pleased to report that there was also a lot of interest in
volunteering voiced by the guests on board. We will repeat the process
on Saturday June 29 during Shepler's Extended Westbound Lighthouse Cruise.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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sections of the new St Helena light station dock assembled in the boat
house and waiting to be moved to the beach for final assembly.</span></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption"></td><td class="tr-caption"></td><td class="tr-caption"></td><td class="tr-caption"></td></tr>
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<tr align="justify"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JUNE 28 -</b> 12
year-old Alyssa Koetje, who is volunteering for three days at our St.
Helena Island light station with her grandparents Roger and Deb
Hoeksema, is seen here this morning in the summer kitchen at the
lighthouse making soda bread, which will likely be included as part of
today's lunch menu. We love it whenever we have motivated young people
volunteering at our lighthouses. As "Keepers of Tomorrow," the future of
our beloved Great Lakes lighthouses truly rest in their hands.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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their arrival at the St. Helena Island light station on Wednesday,
volunteers John Johnson and Tom Fagerlin have been busy doing some
maintenance work in one of the bedrooms in the Assistant Keepers
dwelling. Yesterday, they scraped, spackled and sanded the walls. Here
they are they are applying a coat of Kilz primer, and by the time they
leave the island tomorrow, the walls will have been repainted and the
room will again be ready for habitation. We are truly blessed to have
such wonderful volunteers and thank all who help for their selfless
dedication.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr align="justify"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JUNE 28</b> - MaryAnn
Moore, our cherished Principal Keeper at the St. Helena Island light
station just sent us this photo, stating that she "Had just finished her
light housekeeping!"</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr align="justify"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>JUNE 29 </b>- Our second successful keeper swap at St. Helena Island as part of today's Extended Westbound Lighthouse Cruise. Six people were taken off the island and one new volunteer keeper safely delivered. Some of the volunteers took the microphone as we left the island and headed for White Shoal and talked about their wonderful experience as volunteer keepers. Many of the people on the cruise asked for information on our volunteer keeper program as a result of the experience. A real win/win/win situation for Shepler's, GLLKA and Shepler's guests..</span> </span></td></tr>
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<tr align="justify"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>JUNE 30</b> - We
purchased and installed the new dock at our St. Helena Island light
station not only because falling water levels have created such shallow
conditions at the historic dock that future access is threatened, but
also to improve access to the island by people with private boats. We
are elated to report that our first visitor tied up to the dock today,
and our volunteers happily provided them with a tour of the lighthouse
and grounds.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>For additional information about our <b>volunteer keeper programs</b> at both the St. Helena Island or Cheboygan River Front Range light stations, go to the home page of our website at <a href="http://www.gllka.com/">www.gllka.com</a> and click on "Volunteer at St. Helena" or "Volunteer at Cheboygan" on the right side of the page.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">The City of Chicago's originally pulled its
water from the Chicago River, but with rapid growth around the river
combined with the river serving as a convenient dumping place for the
city’s waste, it was not long before the river became a virtual open
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order to obtain fresh water, the city of Chicago began pumping water
from the harbor. However, the waters near shore soon became too polluted
to use, and in 1865 the City established a large timber crib out in
Lake Michigan where water was collected and pulled through a hand-dug
tunnel beneath the lake to a pumping station on shore. The structure was
known as the Two Mile Intake Crib by virtue of its location two miles
offshore. As can be seen in this contemporary lithograph, by virtue of
its location in the lake, the structure was outfitted with a lantern and
served as an aid to navigation both warning of its presence and guiding
mariners into the harbor.</span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">As
the great city of Chicago grew over the ensuing years, a number of
additional water intake cribs and their connecting tunnels to shore were
built off the harbor. One of these structures was known as the Wilson
Avenue intake crib as a result of its tulle system connecting to a new
pumping station at the foot of Wilson Avenue. Work on crib began in 1915
with the sinking of a steel caisson having <span class="text_exposed_show">a
diameter of ninety feet. Built using square-hewn granite blocks, the
superstructure served to protect a forty-foot diameter inner well
chamber and as housing for the city employees who staffed the plant and
tended the light that would be erected at the center of its roof. The photograph below shows work progressing on erecting the granite walls of the structure.</span></span></span></span></div>
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told, the Wilson Avenue Intake Crib supplied eight miles of water
tunnels, which were hand-dug through the bedrock beneath Lake Michigan -
a tremendous feat of engineering and back-breaking labor. This 1916
photograph shows the interior of one of these tunnels after completion.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">When
they were approximately half way through the construction of the Wilson
Avenue intake crib in Chicago, the Engineers found that the caisson had
settled, causing the superstructure to be sitting a few degrees from
horizontal. Holes were bored beneath the low side of the caisson and
hydraulic cement was pumped into them, lifting the structure back to the
correct orientation. This photograph taken in 1916 shows one of the
engineers on a platform which was erected in the center of the
superstructure, using a theodolite to ensure the top surface of the
granite walls had been brought back to horizontal.</span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">This
photograph from a 1926 edition of Popular Science magazine was taken
from a Water Department supply tug approaching the Wilson Avenue intake
crib in winter.</span></span> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Wilson Avenue Intake Crib in wither</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Winter
was a particularly difficult time for the crews stationed on Chicago's
intake cribs, as they had to toil with picks and poles to prevent ice
from building to the point that it clogged the main intake at the center
of the well room within the structure, as seen in this 1926 photograph.
When the temperature plummeted to sub zero levels, and ice formed thick
and fast, small dynamite charges were used to break the ice to keep the
water flowing. A dangerous, but necessary remedy in such a confined
location.</span></span></span></div>
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at Chicago's intake cribs not only had to contend with their water
department duties, but they also had to maintain the aid to navigation
atop the center of the crib. Here we see one of the crew members
cleaning the lantern glass atop the Wilson Avenue intake crib.</span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">cleaning the lantern glass atop the Wilson Avenue intake crib.</span></i></span></span></span></td></tr>
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a manner similar to that adopted at offshore lighthouses, Chicago's water intake cribs
were staffed by four to five man crews with one man on a week's shore
leave every fourth or fifth week. Supplies and crews were transported to
and from the cribs by Water Department tugs, as seen in this 1950
photograph from one of the tugs approaching the Wilson Avenue Crib.</span></span></span></div>
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working Chicago's water intake cribs could at times be a back-breaking
job, the living conditions were good with fairly expansive quarters and
all conveniences of the day. This photograph taken at the 68th Street
Intake Crib shows the crew gathering for Thanksgiving dinner. From the
manner of their dress, we can discern that their quarters were well
heated, and their girth hints that they certainly were not short of
food! Crews continued to man the intake cribs until the 1990's, when the
decision was made to maintain them from shore.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This
photograph of the Wilson Avenue water intake crib was taken in 2010
during our Southern Lake Michigan Excursion, and shows the wonderful
vista city that would have tantalized the crib tenders when they were
still assigned there. Since "9/11" the cribs intake are considered to be
a target for terrorism, and there are sophisticated surveillance
systems installed all around them along with numer</span><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ous
"Keep Off" signs posted. The good folks of Chicago see this cribs out
in the lake, but precious little is known of them. In 2007, the Chicago
Tribune approached the Water Department seeking permission to visit the
cribs as part of their "Unauthorized" series in which they visit places
around in the Metro area which are normally closed to public access.
However, the cribs are considered so sensitive that their request was
flatly denied. </span></span></span></span></div>
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can be seen in the photograph below from 2010. the glass has been removed
from the lantern atop Chicago's Wilson Avenue water intake crib, and as
is the case with most historic maritime structures, the structure now
serves as a roost for a huge flock of cormorants and gulls. The
structure still serves as an active aid to navigation and in 2010 was
lighted by a Tideland Signal 300mm optic powered by city electricity
supplied by a submarine cable.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The lantern atop Chicago's Wilson Avenue Intake Crib</i></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2554450346573387914.post-73369909714183215942013-04-17T23:20:00.002-04:002013-04-17T23:21:22.955-04:00The lights of Cleveland Harbor<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">This section of a 1917 chart below shows the lights
on the piers and breakwaters at the entrance to Cleveland Harbor. Over
the next couple of days, we will take a look at the lights which guided
mariners into this important harbor over the years.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">In
1830, a contract was awarded to Cleveland businessman Levi Woodbury to
build the harbor's first lighthouse. Known as the Cleveland light, it
was erected on high ground at the foot of Water Street on the east bank
of the Cuyahoga River. Of relatively rough construction, it was typical
of the type of lighthouse structure built on the lakes at that time, as
seen in this 1858 photograph.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/150421_10151451465769682_525826853_n.jpg" style="height: 520px; width: 436px;" /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">On
November 25th 1831, a year after the establishment of the main light on
shore, a pierhead beacon known simply as "The Cleveland Beacon" was
erected on the outer end of the short east pier at the entrance to the
Cuyahoga river. The structure exhibited 4 lamps equipped with 14" reflectors and the lantern was reported to be so so narrow that it made maintenance of the lamps very
difficult for the keeper. Shown below is the known photograph of this original Cleveland Beacon.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">With
the elongation of the east pier at the entrance to the Cuyahoga river
and the deteriorating condition of the 20 year old beacon, the decision
was made to replace the structure with one of more modern design. To
this end the unique 40-foot tall iron beacon shown in the accompanying
photograph was erected on the outer end of the east pier in 1851.
Originally outfitted with the Argand lamps and reflectors from the old
beacon, they were replaced with a more effective fixed Fourth Order
Fresnel lens in 1854.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/5261_10151451948529682_600190621_n.jpg" style="height: 520px; width: 390px;" /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">As
the 1870's dawned, the forty year old Cleveland Main light was in
horrendous condition. The Army Corps of Engineers was planning a
complete rebuilding and extension of the two piers guarding the Cuyahoga
and with the completion of this project the Lighthouse Board would be
required to light the ends of both piers. As such, the Board was facing
the need to hire additional keepers to man three di<span class="text_exposed_show">screte
lights and the inevitable irritation of providing living quarters for
the keepers and their families. To accommodate this change, the decision
was made not to request any funds to repair the old main lighthouse,
but instead to completely raze the old station, incorporating a taller
tower and a large dwelling with separate apartments for up to four men
and their families as shown in these original plans for the station.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span></span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/534378_10151452192954682_761568517_n.jpg" /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Over
1872, a large crew of workmen toiled to build the structure shown in
the accompanying photograph. On completion of construction in January
1873, the new Cleveland Main light was arguably one of the most
impressive and elegant light stations built by the Lighthouse Board in
the fifty-plus years it would be responsible for the nation’s aids to
navigation. With its glistening new Third-and-a-half Order Fresnel lens
standing 84 feet above the dressed limestone foundation, the city gas
illuminated light stood 154 feet above the water, and was visible for a
distance of 10 ½ miles in clear weather conditions.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/555137_10151452217699682_206367047_n.jpg" style="height: 520px; width: 428px;" /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">With
construction of the new Cleveland Main light complete, Tenth Lighthouse
District Engineer Lieutenant Colonel C E Blunt turned his attention to
the deteriorating twenty year old iron beacon on the east pier. With the
future elongation of the pier on which it was to be located and the
need to relocate the structure in the near future inevitable, Blunt
submitted this plan for a free-standing timber frame beacon which could
be easily relocated as the need arose to his superiors with the
Lighthouse Board in Washington for their approval.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/543761_10151453505109682_496362804_n.jpg" style="height: 520px; width: 390px;" /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The
Lighthouse Board approved District Engineer Blunt's plan for the new
Cleveland East Pier light, and the structure shown here was erected at
the outer end of the east pier over 1875, with its light first exhibited
to guide mariners into the Cuyahoga River on the night of September 1.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/555034_10151453515804682_426048823_n.jpg" /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">With
the Army Corps of Engineers busy extending the west pier at the entry
into the Cuyahoga river, the east pier was not the only area within
Cleveland Harbor to receive Engineer Blunts' attention in 1874.
Simultaneous to his submission of the plan for the new East Pier light,
Blunt also included this plan for a new light to be established on the
outer end of the West pier.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/544314_10151453585734682_1051808106_n.jpg" style="height: 520px; width: 390px;" /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Again,
the Lighthouse Board approved Blunts' plans, and the structure shown
here was erected at the outer end of Cleveland's west pier on the
opening of the 1875 season of navigation. The frame building attached to
the beacon housed a large bell of three feet in diameter which was
operated during thick weather by a clockwork bell striking mechanism.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="300" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/560099_10151453596794682_1725108214_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">In
1876, one year after the Lighthouse Board established the Cleveland
West Pier light, the Lifesaving Service established a lifesaving station
on the west pier between the shore and the pierhead light. Originally a
smaller "1875 style" structure, the station was so busy that it was
soon rebuilt to handle additional surf boats and an expanded crew, as
shown in this 1910 postcard</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/73317_10151455552944682_152379755_n.jpg" /> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">With
the dawn of the 1880’s the Cleveland harbor was becoming an
increasingly hectic place. With the piers protruding out into the lake,
entry between them was difficult during foul weather, and with huge
numbers of vessels entering and departing, many masters were forced to
wait for long periods out in the open lake until dockage was available
within the harbor. To help assuage the problem, the Army Corps of
Engineers embarked on the major project of constructing a pair of
breakwaters running parallel to the shore in order to create a large
stilling basin and harbor of refuge.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/306023_10151455597499682_1938672242_n.jpg" style="height: 380px; width: 480px;" /> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">By
the summer of 1884, work on construction of the first phase of the
breakwaters at Cleveland was nearing completion, and Tenth Lighthouse
District Engineer C E L B Davis turned his attention to lighting the
main entry between the two breakwaters. Since they were already on site
building the breakwaters under contract to the Army Corps of Engineers,
it is hardly surprising that contractors J A & <span class="text_exposed_show">LP
Smith were low bidders on Davis’ advertisement for the construction of a
forty foot square timber crib standing 26 feet high to be towed out to
the easterly end of the west breakwater and sunk in place with stone to
serve as a foundation for the new light. In accordance with the terms of
the contract, the Smiths completed the crib in the summer of 1884, but
it was allowed to settle a full year before work was scheduled to begin
on the lighthouse itself.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/537451_10151455665049682_1263094211_n.jpg" style="height: 520px; width: 400px;" /> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Tenth
Lighthouse District Engineer C E L B Davis arrived in Cleveland on the
tender WARRINGTON on July 28, 1885 and inspected the crib foundation
placed on east end of the west breakwater the prior year. Finding it to
be well seated and plumb, work began in erection of the lighthouse
itself, which took the form of an octagonal cast iron structure standing
27 feet in height and capped with an octag<span class="text_exposed_show">onal
lantern housing a fixed fourth order Fresnel lens at a focal plane of
36 feet. A fog bell was suspended from an iron bracket attached to the
outer wall of the structure and operated by a clockwork striking
mechanism within the tower. Lighted for the first time on the night of
October 20, there are unfortunately, no photographs of the Cleveland
West Breakwater East End lighthouse in its original condition are known
to exist, but it would have appeared virtually identical to this
structure which once stood at Oswego on Lake Ontario.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/535016_10151455675029682_175080678_n.jpg" style="height: 520px; width: 398px;" /> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Between
fog and ever thickening smoke from the stacks of industries around the
harbor, the bell on the West Breakwater East End was working double time
and was practically insufficient for its purpose. At the request of the
Lighthouse Board, Congress appropriated the funds required to upgrade
the bell to a single steam-powered fog signal on March 2, 1889. A
contract for a 30-horsepower vertical bo<span class="text_exposed_show">iler,
10-inch whistle and the necessary ancillary equipment along with the
construction of a fog signal building, boat house and work room out on
the breakwater was awarded in July 1890. Construction on the improved
West Breakwater East End light station was completed on October 30 of
that year, with the modified structures appearing as shown in the
accompanying photograph.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/602145_10151456416439682_15397285_n.jpg" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">While
the fog signal on the Cleveland West Breakwater East End light station
proved to be a real boon to mariners during thick weather, its
reception by the citizenry of Cleveland was less than than ecstatic,
with numerous letters of complaint concerning its moaning at all hours
of the day and night being received by the Tenth Lighthouse District
office and the Cleveland newspapers. Not immune to<span class="text_exposed_show">
the sensitivity of the public, the fog-signal building was modified in
1896 to include a circular concave sound reflector, with the whistle in
the center, to lessen the volume of the sound in the direction of the
shore, as shown in the accompanying photograph taken immediately after
the modification was completed.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/44869_10151456441464682_1881401090_n.jpg" style="height: 480px; width: 480px;" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">While
we have thus far focused on the light on the east end of the Cleveland
west breakwater, there was a light on the west end of the east
breakwater since the initial phase of breakwater construction was
completed in 1885. However, in comparison to its mate on the other side
of the main gap in the breakwater, it was fairly insignificant,
consisting of a lens lantern hoisted to the top of a 20 foot pole. This
diminutive structure was changed to something a little more appropriate
for one of the busiest harbors on the lakes in 1892 when this 30-foot
tall skeletal structure was erected to improve visibility of the west
end of the east breakwater.</span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/62601_10151456528279682_425426457_n.jpg" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Its
timber construction growing long in the tooth, the Army Corps of
Engineers set about resurfacing both the east and west piers at the
river mouth with concrete in the late 90’s. With this reconstruction,
the Lighthouse Board faced the need to either relocate the 25 year old
west pierhead light or build a new structure to replace it. With a focal
plane of only 40 feet, the old structures’ small <span class="text_exposed_show">sixth
order light was easily lost to mariners among the increasing number of
lights within and around the harbor. So Tenth District lighthouse
engineer Major T W Symons proposed the erection of a unique 60-foot tall
circular timber pierhead light sheathed with metal shingles to replace
the aging structure. Estimating the cost of the structure to be no more
than $5,000, Congress responded with the necessary appropriation, and
the new West Pier Light shown here was erected over the summer of 1900
and its light exhibited for the first time on the night of November 1 of
that year.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/525336_10151457069309682_21066086_n.jpg" style="height: 520px; width: 390px;" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">By
1902, the crib on which the Cleveland West Breakwater East End light
was situated was found to be in severely deteriorated condition, and
plans were being formulated to rebuild the crib, which would necessitate
the temporary removal of the lighthouse structure and fog signal
building. Now serving as the primary leading light into the harbor, the
decision was made to take advantage of the opport<span class="text_exposed_show">unity
to elevate the height of the lighthouse tower in order to increase its
range of visibility. This work was undertaken over the summer of 1903,
with the accompanying photograph showing the construction crew posing on
site immediately after it had been places atop its new twenty foot high
octagonal timber base. The light was re-exhibited from this new
elevation for the first time on the night of August 24, 1903</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/522060_10151457073949682_590256899_n.jpg" style="height: 520px; width: 332px;" /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">A
nice color postcard view of the renovated Cleveland West Breakwater
East End lighthouse from 1909 light showing the elevated tower.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" class="spotlight" height="409" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/554643_10151457603144682_1357146058_n.jpg" width="640" /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">A
circa 1909 color postcard looking out along the West Pier at the
entrance Cuyahoga River. This is a particularly interesting image
because in addition to showing the Lifesaving station in the foreground,
it places most of the Cleveland harbor lights in perspective to each
other. At the outer end of the pier beyond the Lifesaving station the
cream and brown painted West Pier light is clearly visi<span class="text_exposed_show">ble.
In the distance, just to the left of this tower, you can readily make
out the West Breakwater East End light station, while to the right of
the West Pier tower you can see the skeleton tower of the East
Breakwater West End light. The steamer heading into the opening between
the breakwaters makes it plain why all of these lights were so vital to
maritime safety.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/545935_10151457614744682_1883357255_n.jpg" style="height: 341px; width: 615px;" /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"></span></span></span></div>
<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_516f6185a0e499b10548122">
In
1907 the Army Corps of Engineers began construction of a pair of angled
pierheads protruding from the east and west breakwaters designed to
provide additional stilling of the waters at the main harbor entrance
between the breakwaters. Since federal law required that the Lighthouse
Board light all piers, Tenth District Lighthouse Engineer Colonel Henry M
Adams set about preparing plans and speci<span class="text_exposed_show">fications
for lights for both pierheads on completion. Since these lights would
serve as the primary leading lights into the harbor, Adams plans called
for substantial cast iron structures on both pierheads. This enlargement
of a 1917 chart of Cleveland Harbor shows the location of these two
angled pierheads and the lights that would eventually be established
upon them.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/529269_10151458381409682_1430066567_n.jpg" style="height: 480px; width: 480px;" /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><br /></span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With
construction of the new pierheads nearing completion in 1909, temporary
pole lights were established on the east and west pierheads on March 25
of that year. Immediately thereafter, a contract for furnishing the
metalwork and equipment and erecting the structures themselves was
issued to masonry contractors Henahan and King after their bid of
$40,000 for the work was found to be the lowest received. The tower on
the west pierhead was erected before its adjoining fog signal structure,
as shown in this photograph taken during construction.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/541777_10151458391799682_156084587_n.jpg" style="height: 520px; width: 392px;" /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The
iron tower on the east pierhead consisted of the smaller structure
shown here. Since the larger structure on the West Pierhead had keepers
permanently assigned to tend it, it exhibited a fourth order lens at a
focal plane of 63 feet with a characteristic alternating red and white
flash every five seconds. However, since this smaller light on the East
Pierhead was automated through the incorporation of an acetylene system
with sun valve, it exhibited a group of 3 fast flashes every six seconds
from a lower focal plane of 39 feet. Both West and East Pierhead lights
were placed into commission for the first time on the night of March
25, 1911.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/533623_10151460523919682_2095011040_n.jpg" style="height: 480px; width: 427px;" /> </span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">With
the leading lights into the harbor at Cleveland now located on the
outer ends of the new pierheads beyond the breakwater, the old fog
signal on the east end of the west breakwater was now a considerable
distance within the harbor and was no longer providing adequate
protection for vessels entering in this weather. Thus, the decision was
made to erect a new fog attached to the tower on the Wes<span class="text_exposed_show">t
Pierhead, and Commissioner of Lighthouse George Putnam appeared before
the Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce on June 15, 1913 to
plead the case for an appropriation of $17,600 for its construction.
Evidently Putnam made a compelling case, as the appropriation was
approved on October 22, and the fog signal building shown in this
photograph was erected and its diaphone officially reported as being in
commission on August 18, 1916</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/541412_10151458415324682_1486409090_n.jpg" /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">With
the commissioning of the new fog signal on the Cleveland West Pierhead
in 1916, the crew from the West Breakwater East End light was reassigned
to the new station and the light in the old station automated through
the installation of an acetylene system. No longer needed, the old fog
signal building and boathouse associated with the station were removed
from the breakwater, leaving only the elevated cast iron tower marking
the outer end of the breakwater as seen in this photograph.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/644576_10151458426129682_939998791_n.jpg" style="height: 480px; width: 480px;" /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">By
the late 1930’s, the old timber frame lights on both east and west
piers at the Cuyahoga River and the elevated iron tower on the West
Breakwater East End had been replaced with standard skeletal iron towers
with integrated acetylene sheds. This photograph of the light erected
on the end of the East Pier being typical of the type.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/547523_10151458474489682_1040263274_n.jpg" /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The
skeletal iron acetylene tower on the outer end of the Cleveland West
Pier light as it appeared in 1925. Note the trees that had grown up
around the old Lifesaving station further down the pier in an area which
was known to local residents as "Whiskey Island."</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/19228_10151458498314682_539259012_n.jpg" style="height: 520px; width: 390px;" /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">As
an austerity move in 1915, President Woodrow Wilson signed an act which
merged the Revenue Cutter Service and the Lifesaving Service to create a
new entity known as the Coast Guard, with this new service using the
old Cleveland lifesaving station on the West Pier as its area base of
operations since that date. In a similar austerity move in 1939, the
Bureau of Lighthouses was abolished and resp<span class="text_exposed_show">onsibility
for the nation’s aids to navigation transferred to the Coast Guard.
Thus assuming a greater role in the harbor, the Coast Guard found it
needed a facility which provided greater capability and presence than
that represented by the aging lifesaving station as shown here in a 1936
aerial photograph. (Note the skeletal acetylene light tower on the
pierhead.)</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/733957_10151458877184682_1449484937_n.jpg" /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Responsibility
for design of the new Cleveland Coast Guard station was awarded to
renowned Cleveland architect J. Milton Dyer, who had made his mark
through design of a number of prominent Cleveland buildings including
the City Hall in 1916. Built on the West Pier in 1940, Dyer’s design
took the form of a modernistic group of buildings with a tip of the hat
to the Coast Guard’s new lighthouse responsibility represented by the
tall watch tower at the center of the complex, as seen here in this
aerial photograph taken in 1951.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/537063_10151458877894682_277291126_n.jpg" style="height: 332px; width: 615px;" /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The
Coast Guard operated the station on “Whiskey Island” until 1976, when
they built new a new facility near North Coast Harbor. The property was
later sold to a development company that operated part of the buildings
as a night club. While we have read that the City purchased the property
in 2003 and had plans for improvements, they were not forthcoming when
these photos of the sadly deteriorating structure were taken in 2009.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/564401_10151458880899682_1982572272_n.jpg" /> </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The
two pierhead lights still shine from the original 1911 lanterns, though
the structures are deteriorating badly. The light on the East Pierhead
is now officially listed as the “Cleveland Harbor Main Entrance Light 1”
and the breakwater around the light has been refaced with sheet piling,
somewhat obscuring a good view of the diminutive structure as shown
here in this photograph taken during our 2011 Lake Erie excursion. The
light is now provided by a small solar-powered LED emitting an isophase
characteristic green flash of six seconds duration.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="480" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/537051_10151459591799682_1867313427_n.jpg" width="640" /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The
West Pierhead light is now officially listed as the Cleveland Harbor
Main Entrance Light. As can be seen in this photograph taken during our
2011 Lake Erie Excursion, while the tower appears to be in relatively
good condition, the concrete of the breakwater was deteriorating and the
fog signal building was in sadly deteriorating condition. As is the
case with the light on the east pierhead, the light has been replaced by
a three-tiered solar-powered LED array, which exhibits a characteristic
red flash every six seconds.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/535748_10151459592184682_893525748_n.jpg" /> </span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">In
August 2012, contractors were seen removing sections of deteriorated
concrete from the pier beneath the Cleveland Harbor Main Entrance light.
While we assume that they were preparing to reface the sides of the
pier with sheet piling and fill-in with concrete as had previously been
done, as of this point we have not had the opportunity to return to
Cleveland to see what the end result might have been.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/551440_10151459592744682_14895007_n.jpg" /> </span></span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2554450346573387914.post-91450490126542717642013-03-03T12:49:00.000-05:002013-03-04T12:50:07.968-05:00The Chicago connection at Twin River Point<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The first lighthouse in
Chicago was built in 1831. It was located on the south bank of the
Chicago River just to the west of fort Dearborn. Built entirely of
stone, the tower was poorly constructed, falling to the ground as
construction was nearing completion. The illustration below is from from Harpers
Magazine and shows the lighthouse as it appeared soon after completion.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="235" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/11491_10151382962284682_1721906305_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">As
the city of Chicago and the number of vessels entering and departing
the river grew through 1850’s, protective piers were established at the
mouth of the river, effectively relocating the river entry considerably
farther to the north of the lighthouse. Now located considerably inland
from the new entry point, and frequently enshrouded with smoke from the
numerous factories in the area, it is no surprise that old lighthouse
was no longer serving as an effective leading light into the river. The 1856 photograph below is the only known photograph of the old Chicago River
light, and gives a sense of the growing industrialization around it.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="300" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/559738_10151382979594682_2028759103_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">In
1847, a temporary beacon was erected on the North pier to assist
mariners locating the harbor entrance. Finally, in September 1851,
District Engineer J. D Webster supervised the driving of a network of
piles and the sinking of a 47-foot square crib foundation atop them at
the end of the pier to serve as a base for a new, improved lighthouse.
Work quickly ground to a halt as a result of a lack of funding, and the
lighthouse structure itself was not completed until 1858. The location
of the lighthouse and detached dwelling are readily visible in the wonderful 1868 “birds eye” illustration of the Chicago harbor below.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="300" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/313378_10151383773889682_337862145_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The
tower of the new Chicago lighthouse consisted of an iron central stair
cylinder supported by eight iron legs with a network of intermediate
cast iron bracing and turnbuckles. Standing seventy two five feet above
the surface of the crib the Third Order lens in the lantern stood at a
focal plane of 83 feet, and was visible for a distance of fifteen miles.
A detached dwelling stood shoreward of the tower, and was connected to
the bottom of the central stair cylinder by an elevated covered way,
which is ready visible in the following single side of a stereo view photograph
of the structure.</span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/72617_10151383778619682_328632196_n.jpg" style="height: 520px; width: 520px;" /></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The
Federal government continued to extend the piers which protected the
Chicago River, and by 1870 the 83’ tall skeletal iron tower was located
1,200 feet from the end of the north pier. With increasing
industrialization, the smoke which shrouded the city on a daily basis
had worsened, and with no respite in sight, Eleventh District Lighthouse
Engineer Orlando Metcalfe Poe recommended that the le<span class="text_exposed_show">ading
light for Chicago be relocated to Grosse Point, in Evanston some 13
miles to the north. The State of Illinois consented to the transfer of
land to the federal government in 1871 and the new lighthouse shown below under construction was built on Grosse Point in 1873 and lighted for
the first time on the night of March 1, 1874.</span></span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="300" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/46910_10151384006779682_493730291_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">With
the Grosse Point lighthouse serving as the primary leading light
guiding mariners toward the Chicago River after 1874, and a pair of
small beacon lights marking the outer ends of the two piers, the 1870
skeletal iron tower now served only as a minor marker for vessels
entering the river. As can be seen in the following 1885 photograph, the dwelling
had been removed and a long stairway added to provide<span class="text_exposed_show">
access to the tower from the pier surface. Work was also underway on
the construction of a 4,000 foot long breakwater to better protect the
river entry and create a 455 acre contained harbor, and with plans to
place a major light at the opening in this new breakwater on its
completion, the days of the old skeletal iron Chicago River tower on the
north pier were numbered.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" height="400" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/563439_10151384021309682_1592698921_n.jpg" width="300" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">160
miles north of Chicago, 11th District Lighthouse Engineer Orlando
Metcalfe Poe oversaw the construction of a new light station on Twin
River Point in 1873. The lighthouse was built to the same plan as
lighthouses at Little Point Au Sable on Lake Michigan and Au Sable Point
and Outer Island on Lake Superior. The new lighthouse took the form of a
“hundred foot” tower of Cream City Brick with a h<span class="text_exposed_show">ip-roofed
dwelling of the same material attached to the tower by a covered way.
Work at Twin River Point progressed through 1874, with the station’s
Third Order lens exhibited for the first time on the night of November
18, 1874. The 1884 photograph below, courtesy of the Woodward Collection, is
the only known photo of this original Twin River Point lighthouse.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="300" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/537474_10151385719209682_145678902_n.jpg" width="400" /> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Contracts
for lighthouse construction under the administration of the Lighthouse
Board were issued under the “lowest bid” system. As such, any sub
contracts issued by contractors for materials were also obtained as
cheaply as possible, and it appears that in order to save cost, the
Cream City Brick used by the contractor in the Twin River Point tower
lighthouse was of terrible quality, containing <span class="text_exposed_show">a
high percentage of inclusions and poorly fired during its manufacture.
Moisture entering the bricks degraded the masonry as a result of the
annual freeze/thaw cycle to the point that by 1890 consideration was
being given to razing and rebuilding the entire tower of a more
substantial masonry material. By way of example, this photograph of a
section of the exterior of the Old Mackinac Point lighthouse shows how
such inferior bricks degrade in this manner.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="300" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/481828_10151385734914682_277208954_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Meanwhile, b</span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">ack
in Chicago, with work on the new breakwater nearing completion in 1890,
work was underway on the construction of a major new light to mark the
entrance to the harbor at the split in the breakwater. Known as the
Chicago Harbor Light, the new structure is shown in this 1914
photograph. The structure took the form of free-standing crib with a 59
½-foot conical cast iron tower located at its center and flanked by a
pair of corrugated iron fog signal buildings. Simultaneous with the
first exhibition of its light on the night of November 10, 1893, the
light in the old skeletal iron Chicago River light was permanently
extinguished. However, the life of the old 1858 lighthouse was far from
over….</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/150486_10151385764309682_1145654598_n.jpg" style="height: 480px; width: 480px;" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">With
the old Chicago River light no longer serving as an active aid to
navigation, and a new tower needed at Twin River Point, District
Lighthouse Engineer Milton B. Adams drew up a plan to modify the old
Chicago tower for use at Twin River Point. A portion of Adams’ plan for
this modification appears below. The statement “Project for enlarging
the present Chicago River Tower, making 100 feet to focal plane” can
clearly be seen at the upper left.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="400" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/75552_10151386048799682_377929752_n.jpg" width="300" /> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">In
the winter of 1893/1894, District Engineer Milton B Adams awarded a
contract to the Vulcan Iron Works in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to cast
the new iron components required to increase the height of the old
Chicago River lighthouse from seventy-two feet in height to 100 feet.
Work in disassembling the lighthouse commenced on June 7, 1894, and by
the end of the month, the entire lighthouse had b<span class="text_exposed_show">een
reduced to its individual components, which were boxed and bundled for
shipment to Twin River Point. The lighthouse tender AMARANTH arrived in
Chicago in late August with the new components from Vulcan Iron Works on
board and the packaged components from the old lighthouse were loaded
on her decks and she steamed north to deliver them to Twin River Point.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/426498_10151390352764682_33193697_n.jpg" style="height: 450px; width: 480px;" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">On
a site approximately fifty feet to the west of the Twin River Point dwelling, a construction
crew had completed excavations was pouring concrete foundations for the
eight columns of the old Chicago River tower. By the end of September
1894 the refurbished metal work of the first section had been erected.
Over October, 166,000 pounds of iron had been erected, reaching the
upper part of the fourth story, completing the structure to the main
gallery deck. In November the service room, watch room and lantern were
erected, and the illuminating apparatus transferred from the old brick
tower into the lantern. Erection of the refurbished skeleton iron tower
at Twin River Point was completed on December 1, 1894.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="400" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/482501_10151390410869682_1644529187_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Since
duplicate 10” fog signals had been established at Twin River Point in
1890, three keepers were now crammed into a dwelling originally designed
to accommodate a single keeper and his family. In January 1895,
District Engineer Adams oversaw the preparation of plans,
specifications, and estimates for modifying the keepers dwelling and the
removal of the old brick tower at Twin River Point, and <span class="text_exposed_show">submitted
them to the Lighthouse Board in Washington for approval. As seen in
the north elevation of his plans below, Adams' design called for an extensive
modification and enlargement of the dwelling to incorporate the lower
portion of the shortened tower, using the space within the tower as
additional accommodations. After receiving Board approval to proceed
with the project, the lighthouse tender AMARANTH again returned to Twin
River Point, landing a construction crew and all necessary materials at
the point on April 10, 1895.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span class="text_exposed_show"><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/482436_10151390469919682_416996690_n.jpg" style="height: 480px; width: 480px;" /> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">As
can be seen in the following “before and after” photographs to the left and
right, Engineer Adam's modification and enlargement of the dwelling at
Twin River Point was extensive. However as seen in the center image, the
heritage of the original 1874 dwelling are still visible if you know
the attributes to look for.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="136" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/529919_10151390474014682_299675517_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The following photograph of the Twin River light station was taken in 1895,
immediately after the dwelling modifications were completed. Re-erected
and elevated to its new height on Twin River Point, the old Chicago
River lighthouse tower now stood at a height of 111 feet from its
foundation to the lantern vent, making the Twin River Point lighthouse
the tallest shore light on the Great Lakes, an honor it continues to
hold to this day.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/72483_10151390482699682_919505055_n.jpg" style="height: 480px; width: 480px;" /> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">In
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the world's premiere
manufacturers came together every few years to show off their newest
technology at huge international exhibitions. In 1851, one of the
earliest of these, known as "The Great Exposition" was held at the
Crystal Palace in London. This contemporary illustration shows the great
hall at the exhibition with one of Chance Brothers Magnificent Fresnel
lenses prominently displayed.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="300" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/549789_10151374802894682_1212130331_n.jpg" width="400" /> </span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><br />Chance Brothers Fresnel
lenses</span></span></span> on display at the 1851 Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London</span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">While
the Lighthouse Board was specifically formed in 1852 to improve the
administration and technology in US lighthouses, it took almost two
decades for them to come close to catching up with the European
lighthouse establishments. At the 1862 International Exhibition (again
held in London) the Brits proudly showed off this
electrically-illuminated Fresnel lens powered by "Holme's
Magneto-Electric" lighting system.<br /></span></span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="300" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/312411_10151374836429682_757780874_n.jpg" width="400" /> </span></span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><br />Holme's
Magneto-Electric" lighting system and Fresnel <span style="font-size: x-small;">lens at the 1862 exhibition in London</span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">With the International Exposition of 1876
being held in its own back yard in Philadelphia, The US Lighthouse Board
seized on the opportunity to show the world the great strides it had
taken. In addition to the impressive First Order lens pr<span class="text_exposed_show">ominently
visible to the left, the display also featured a detailed model of the
construction crib and tower of the recently completed lighthouse on
Spectacle Reef in Lake Huron, which would long be heralded as one of the
world's most important monolithic stone engineering achievements.</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="300" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/563547_10151374839769682_260016146_n.jpg" width="400" /> </span></span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> <span style="color: #666666;"><br />The Lighthouse Board exhibit at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia</span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">In a little over a half century, Chicago
soared from a site of a minor frontier military outpost to challenge New
York's role as the country's premier city. To herald its "arrival" on
the world stage, the city laid plans to host the World's<span class="text_exposed_show">
Fair to end all World's Fairs on the 500th anniversary of Christopher
Columbus' setting foot in the New World. The site selected for the
Exhibition consisted of 600 acres of swampy land along the Lake Michigan
shoreline to the south of the city, requiring a massive effort in the
dumping of innumerable loads of fill dirt and the driving of untold
thousands of timber pilings to create the necessary land and lagoons.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="262" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/156409_10151376199379682_799891634_n.jpg" width="400" /> <span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />A poster advertising the 1893 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago </span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent">While the site for the Columbian Exhibition
was dedicated on October 21, 1892, the fairgrounds were not actually
opened to the public until May 1, 1893. The fair immediately became
known as the "White City" as a result of the white classica<span class="text_exposed_show">l
exteriors of its many buildings. The "Manufacturers Building" was not
only the largest building on the fair grounds, but at 1,687 feet by 787
feet was the largest building in the world at the time. Housing an
exhibit space of 44 acres, its central hall spanned 370 feet and soared
211 feet above the ground, providing intrepid visitors this expansive
view of the fair grounds and Lake Michigan from an observation platform
atop the roof. the appearance of massive permanence of the fair
buildings was a total deception, as although built over heavy steel
skeletons, their exterior surfaces were constructed of a mixture of
plaster of Paris, cement and jute known as "staff," and were only
designed to last for the year of the exhibition, to be torn down soon
after the fair was closed on October 9.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" height="300" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/563379_10151376256259682_1199390094_n.jpg" width="400" /><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br />The view from the observation platform on the roof of the Manufacturers Building</span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent">The Government Building at the Columbian
Exhibition housed displays from the various federal agencies, showing
the wonderful things they were accomplishing with citizen's tax dollars.
The Lighthouse Board originally planned on exhibiting in<span class="text_exposed_show">
two spaces associated with this building - a 100 foot by 50 foot area
within the building itself, and 150 foot square area outside the
building adjacent to one of the canals. Unfortunately, finding itself
short of the necessary $15,000 cost, the Board had to make do with a
significantly reduced space of 50 feet by 24 feet within the building
itself and 150 feet by 50 feet outside by the canal at a total projected
cost of $5,686.95.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="300" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/524824_10151376353204682_1398860786_n.jpg" width="400" /></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br />The Government Building at the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exhibition </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">While only being able to afford a 50 foot by
24 foot display area within the Manufacturing building at the 1893
Columbian Exhibition, the Lighthouse Board managed to shoehorn in a
fairly significant number of interesting items to show how f<span class="text_exposed_show">ar
they had advanced, as shown in the photograph below of the display. Included
were lenses of the hyper radiant, First, Second, Fourth and Fifth
orders along with a number lamps, models, plans and photographs.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="300" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/295498_10151376705559682_1305743290_n.jpg" width="400" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The interior portion of the Lighthouse Board exhibit at the 1893 Columbian Exhibition</span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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feat that the model of the crib and tower originally displayed at the
1876 World's fair in Philadelphia was dusted off and proudly redisplayed
to the fair's visitors. The paintings on the rear wall featured the
illustrious gentlemen who had served as Chairmen of the Board since its
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1893 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago consisted of a 50 foot by 100 foot
area located on one of the lagoons. As can be seen in this photograph,
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exhibit, which took the form of a fully functioning lifesaving station
complete with boathouse, boats and tramway. In addition to a number of
different designs of buoys, the Lighthouse Board exhibit included a
skeletal iron lighthouse tower erected for the duration of the fair.</span></span></span></div>
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display at the 1893 Columbian Exhibition dominated the area. The tower
had been ordered by the Lighthouse Board to serve as a new rear
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and its erection at Waackaack was postponed so it could be shipped
directly to the Chicago Fair. Designed like a giant erector set, with
each of its components identified numerically, it was a relatively
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happened to the lighthouse tower exhibited by the Lighthouse Board after
the 1893 Columbian Exhibition closed. However, there is plenty of
primary source material which proves that it was disassemb<span class="text_exposed_show">led
after the show and shipped to Keansburgh, new Jersey where it was
re-erected to serve as a rear tower for the Waackaack range lights, as
was the Board's original intention use for the structure. This circa
1910 postcard of the Waackaack rear range tower clearly shows numerous
clues which graphically speak to the heritage of the structure.</span></span></span></div>
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1893 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. Here we see an overall photograph
of the exhibit of French lens manufacturer Barbier, which displayed its
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for use in lighthouse illumination, even the Standard Oil Company
featured a Fresnel lens as part of its display in the Machinery Hall at
the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exhibition.</span></span></div>
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Lawrence River out of Lake Ontario were forced to pass through the
narrows to the south of Wellesley Island. A number of small, rocky
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difficult in clear weather and virtually impossible at night or during
overcast weather conditions. In order to mark the southerly limit of
this channel, a lighthouse was established on Rock Island in 1847. This
first Rock Island lighthouse exhibited a fixed light shown from a
birdcage lantern centered on the apex of a small stone dwelling. While
no photographs of the original lighthouse were ever taken, this old
illustration matches the official description of the structure and
provides a good idea of how it would have appeared.</span></span></span><br />
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condition, and the Lighthouse Board issued a request to Congress for an
appropriation of $14,000 to completely rebuild the station. Congress
turned a deaf ear to repeated annual requests for funds, and it would
not be until 1882 that this prefabricated iron tower was erected in the
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in 1884, two years after the new tower was erected at Rock Island,
sufficient funding was available to allow the much needed rebuilding of
the decrepit forty year old dwelling. Using as much of the original
foundation and materials as was practical to keep costs as low as
possible, a beautiful Queen Anne style dwelling was erected on the
island for the stations keeper. This undated photograph of the dwelling
from the Coast Guard Historian's office was clearly taken from the
gallery of the tower, which stood approximately from its veranda.</span></span></span></div>
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in 1884, a small depot was established on the northeast end of Rock
Island for the storage and repair of the many buoys used to mark the
channel in that section of the river. With the addition of its large
large timber dock, storage shed, crane, buoy car and tracks, much of the
tiny island was now covered with buildings.</span></span></span></div>
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1902, the Rock Island boathouse was relocated onto this substantial
timber and stone foundation. In order to provide sufficient depth for
the keepers launch, the rock had to be blasted with dynamite before the
foundation could be built. Also at this time, the concrete walkways were
renewed connecting all the station buildings.</span></span></span></div>
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part of our GLLKA lighthouse excursion in the Thousand Islands in
September of 2012, a group of forty lighthouse aficionados boarded a
large pontoon boat and took an early morning ride out to Rock Island to
tour the light station. As you can see from this photo taken as we made
our way toward the lighthouse dock, we were graced with a perfect
Thousand Islands morning.</span></span></span></div>
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the buildings at the Rock Island light station were undergoing
restoration during our visit, as evident by this claw-foot bathtub
sitting upside down on the floor of the station kitchen. The interior of
the dwelling is beautiful, and has details reminiscent of the "Arts and
Crafts" style.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The kitchen of the Rock Island light station as it appeared under restoration in 2012</span></span></i></span></div>
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visiting the Rock Island light station our group was able to enter the
tower, but a problem with some custom fabricated replacement stair
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of the previously mentioned stair problems in the tower at Rock Island,
we had to satisfy ourselves with this view up into the tower from the
entrance level.</span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The view up the stairs in the Rock Island light station tower </span></span></span></i></div>
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its dynamited slip and crib based walls, the boat house at the Rock
Island light station is a wonderful example of early twentieth century
field engineering and its excellent condition a real tribute to the
workmanship of the 1902 construction crew..</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> The Rock Island light station boat house in 2012</span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">I
could have spent the whole day in the Rock Island light station
boathouse. With its exposed timber frames, the details are incredible,
and I would love to have had the opportunity to climb those stairs to
the second floor to explore further.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="250" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/5498_10151299069444682_96084856_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The interior of the Rock Island boat house</span></span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">I
fell in love with these fifteen light uppers sashes in the windows at
the Rock Island dwelling. The white building visible just outside is a
square cast iron oil storage building which was erected at the upper end
of the path to the tower in 1905. Its exterior restoration was
complete, and it looked as good as the day it was erected.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/484809_10151299072874682_1535157199_n.jpg" style="height: 520px; width: 325px;" /> </span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The Arts and Crafts style windows in the Rock Island dwelling</span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">With
Rock Island being such a tiny and rocky location, we were quite
surprised to see this relatively large area of grasses and greenery
between the dwelling and the boathouse. What a great place this would be
to sit and watch the world pass by.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><img alt="" class="spotlight" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/734804_10151299078654682_1158731479_n.jpg" style="height: 520px; width: 345px;" /> </span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">There was a surprisingly large amount of open area at the center of the island</span></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><br /></span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For
our last post on the Rock Island light station, here is a photograph
taken in the late evening on a prior GLLKA trip to the Thousand Islands
area in October of 2010.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="250" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/485922_10151299080679682_515511011_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Sunset over Rock Island light station</span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2554450346573387914.post-66876523219865553412013-01-13T13:35:00.000-05:002013-03-03T13:39:01.011-05:00Rescuing the Sand Point lighthouse in Escanaba<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">With
the completion of the Peninsula Railroad in 1864, which linked Escanaba
to the iron mines of Negaunee, and the subsequent construction of ore
docks in the harbor, it was clear that Escanaba was destined to become
Lake Michigan's premier ore shipping port.</span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" height="225" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/58243_10151267372724682_957073976_n.jpg" width="400" /> </div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whalbacks tied up at the Escanaba ore docks</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">With
the boom on at Escanaba, the Lighthouse Board began recommending a
Congressional appropriation to establish a light on a peninsula to the
south of the growing harbor in 1856. Appropriately known as Sand Point,
it was clear that a light at this point would serve double duty - both
helping mariners locate the entry into Little Bay De Noc and back out
into the open waters of Lake Michigan.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"></span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" height="400" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/543425_10151267405439682_1304419082_n.jpg" width="300" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Chart of the west coast of Little Bay De Noquette <span style="font-size: x-small;">showing Sand Point</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Congress
finally made an appropriation of $1,000 to secure a tract of land on
Sand Point in 1864, and then followed-up with a second appropriation of
$9,000 to build the the lighthouse in 1867. Construction of the
oft-repeated "schoolhouse style" lighthouse was completed late that
year, and its light officially exhibited at the opening of the
navigation season on May 13, 1868.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="400" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/14811_10151267488379682_375614770_n.jpg" width="351" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sand Point lighthouse as it appeared circa 1890</span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">In
order to assist mariners in locating Sand Point in thick weather, the
Lighthouse Board requested an appropriation of $1,000 to install an
automated fog bell at the station in 1890. While the request was
repeated every year for the next nine years, no funds were forthcoming,
so to meet the needs of mariners, the District Engineer shipped an old
bell tower from Tail Point to Escanaba, and outfitted with a bell and
striking mechanism which had been rendered obsolete by the installation
of a steam fog signal at Muskegon, this fog bell was finally placed into
service at Sand Point on May 1, 1900.</span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" height="285" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/63786_10151267547834682_191303526_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The fog bell at Sand Point. Note the lighthouse in the background</span></span></i></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" height="253" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/538450_10151267559629682_92948661_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sand Point lighthouse in a hand-colored postcard from 1911</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On
the night of June 5, 1940 this unimpressive structure known simply as
the Escanaba Light was established in the water off Sand Point. Powered
by a submarine electrical cable from the nearby shore, its 375mm lens
stood 45 feet above water and was visible for a distance of 14 miles in
clear weather. The image to the left shows the Escanaba light as it
appeared soon after construction and the image to the right shows the
way it appears today.</span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" height="300" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/63615_10151268831634682_631070027_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Escanaba crib light as it appeared soon after construction (left) and in 2012 (right)</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">With
the construction of the new offshore Escanaba light, the old Sand Point
light station no longer served any purpose as an aid to navigation. The
Coast Guard removed the lantern and most of the tower and increased the
square footage of the second floor by raising the roof to convert the
building for use as a Coast Guard station, as shown in this circa 1960
postcard.</span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" height="321" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/263316_10151272477314682_1277496857_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The lighthouse as it appeared after its conversion to serve as a Coast Guard station</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">With
an electrically operated diaphragm horn operating in the new Escanaba
light, the Fresnel lens at the Sand Point light was not the only
artifact from the past to be removed. In 1941, the bell was removed from
the grounds of Sand Point light station, and the old timber-frame bell
tower was burned to the ground. While the event was reported in a number
of newspapers, there were unfortunately no photographs of the burn
published, so we will include another photo of the old lighthouse as it
appeared subsequent to the Coast Guard remodeling.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> </span></span></span><img alt="Photo: With an electrically operated diaphragm horn operating in the new Escanaba light, the Fresnel lens at the Sand Point light was not the only artifact from the past to be removed. In 1941, the bell was removed from the grounds of Sand Point light station, and the old timber-frame bell tower was burned to the ground. While the event was reported in a number of newspapers, there were unfortunately no photographs of the burn published, so we will include another photo of the old lighthouse as it appeared subsequent to the Coast Guard remodeling." class="scaledImageFitWidth img" height="403" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/c81.0.403.403/p403x403/74324_10151272494714682_844014628_n.jpg" width="403" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> The lighthouse after removal of the upper tower and lantern </span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">No
longer needed to support its mission in the area, the Coast Guard made
the decision to excess the aging Sand Point light station. Thankfully,
the Delta County Historical Society stepped-up to take on its
restoration. This photo from 1988 shows the lighthouse with its original
roof line and historic window openings restored and the missing upper
portion of the tower reconstructed, awaiting the eventual installation
of a lantern.</span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" height="271" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/74122_10151275868979682_587101869_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The lighthouse with its original
roof line and historic window openings restored</span></span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">In
1989. the Delta County Historical Society received a replacement
lantern which had reportedly served at the Poverty Island light station.
After cleaning, restoration and painting, the lantern was hoisted to
the top of the rebuilt tower and bolted in place. Due to the Society's
diligence and hard work, the lighthouse was almost whole again.</span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" height="400" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/59930_10151275979354682_2125702503_n.jpg" width="277" /></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Installing the restored lantern from Poverty Island</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">The photograph below was taken in 1990. The
lantern was back on the tower, a Fourth Order Fresnel lens which was
located in Menominee has been installed on its pedestal and the only
exterior restoration remaining was a fresh coat of paint.</span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="" class="spotlight" height="400" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/428141_10151276464014682_1866288403_n.jpg" width="287" /> </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The new lantern and wall restoration underway </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Here
is the view from the lantern of the San Point lighthouse, looking out
into Little Bay de Noc towards Peninsula Point. To the left of the
restored Fourth Order fixed Fresnel lens you can see the green and white
Escanaba light which in 1940 rendered the Sand Point light station
obsolete.</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="238" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/580555_10151277114374682_489125242_n.jpg" width="400" /> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i>The view from the Sand Point lantern</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Today,
the Sand Point light station is completely restored as shown in this
offshore photograph take in 2011. Included in the restoration is the
boat house shown to the right, which was brought across the ice from the
Squaw Point light station in 1914 for the use of the Sand Point keeper.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="265" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/554322_10151281463299682_1498166534_n.jpg" width="400" /> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Sand Point lighthouse from offshore during a GLLKA excursion in 2011</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">As
our final shot of this series on the Sand Point light station, we
present this photograph of the interior of the beautifully restored boat
house and the lapstrake hulled double-ender sitting proudly on the boat
car.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="300" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/64282_10151281470539682_809286755_n.jpg" width="400" /> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The interior of the Sand Point boat house</span></span></i></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2554450346573387914.post-73782627162148333512012-12-23T14:31:00.000-05:002013-03-03T14:32:14.841-05:00The Daboll trumpet at Pilot Island<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">In 1862, a Daboll patent trumpet fog signal
was installed at the Port du Mort light station on Pilot Island off the
northern tip of Wisconsin's Door Peninsula shown here.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">The trumpet at Port du Morts received its
supply of compressed air from one of John Ericsson's unique caloric
engines, one of which is shown in the illustration below.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span class="userContent">While there were a number of Daboll trumpets
installed at lighthouses throughout the USA, perhaps the most unique
installation was this single horsepower engine installed at the
Beavertail light station in Narragansett Bay. Built in 1851, it was
fueled by a combination of hay, oats and water.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="userContent">Daboll's unique "oats and water" powered air compressor. </span></span></i></span> </span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2554450346573387914.post-39821064869807556862012-11-10T15:06:00.000-05:002013-08-30T23:48:53.609-04:00Mamajuda lighthouse<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">The island that would eventually become known
as Mamajuda appeared in this 1796 French map of the Detroit River, where
it was listed as “Jones” Island. The title “island” is actually
somewhat aggrandizing, as throughout modern history virtually all of its
25 acres have been located beneath the surface of the river with only
varying amounts of low-lying wetlands protruding visibly above the
surface.</span></span></div>
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<img alt="Photo: The island that would eventually become known as Mamajuda appeared in this 1796 French map of the Detroit River, where it was listed as “Jones” Island. The title “island” is actually somewhat aggrandizing, as throughout modern history virtually all of its 25 acres have been located beneath the surface of the river with only varying amounts of low-lying wetlands protruding visibly above the surface." class="scaledImageFitWidth img" height="400" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/68431_10151210916404682_1582885939_n.jpg" width="400" /> </div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1876 map showing the location of Jones Island</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">The island eventually became known as Mammy
Judy after an Indian woman by the same name who regularly camped on
the island during the fishing season prior to 1807. Because the shallow
island was located smack in the middle of the main shi<span class="text_exposed_show">pping
channel between Grosse Isle and Fighting Island, the Mammy Judy
lighthouse was established on the southeast side of the island in 1849.
Erected atop a grid-work of vertical piles driven into the river bed,
the station was outfitted with 4 Lewis patent lamps with 14” diameter
reflectors in a birdcage style lantern 35 feet above the water. This
photograph shows the Mammy Judy lighthouse as it appeared circa 1852.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><img alt="Photo: The island eventually became known as Mammy Judy after an Indian woman by the same name who regularly camped on the island during the fishing season prior to 1807. Because the shallow island was located smack in the middle of the main shipping channel between Grosse Isle and Fighting Island, the Mammy Judy lighthouse was established on the southeast side of the island in 1849. Erected atop a grid-work of vertical piles driven into the river bed, the station was outfitted with 4 Lewis patent lamps with 14” diameter reflectors in a birdcage style lantern 35 feet above the water. This photograph shows the Mammy Judy lighthouse as it appeared circa 1852." class="scaledImageFitWidth img" height="400" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/18828_10151210954974682_812223860_n.jpg" width="400" /> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The original 1849 Mamajuda lighthouse </span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">The cropped section of an 1876 chart of the
Detroit River below shows the location of the Mammy Judy light station and
graphically shows the danger largely submerged island would have
represented to mariners making their way along the river, and the reason
it was considered necessary to establish a lighthouse to mark the
island's position in 1849.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"> </span></span><img alt="Photo: This cropped section of an 1876 chart of the Detroit River shows the location of the Mammy Judy light station and graphically shows the danger largely submerged island would have represented to mariners making their way along the river, and the reason it was considered necessary to establish a lighthouse to mark the island's position in 1849." class="scaledImageFitWidth img" height="400" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/28008_10151210960139682_1563526021_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1876 chart of the Detroit River showing the location of the Mamajuda lighthouse</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">With the exception of upgrading the Lewis
lamps to a Sixth Order Fresnel lens in 1855, little maintenance appears
to heave been undertaken at Mamajuda, and after only fifteen years it
was evident that the pilings on which the lighthouse was<span class="text_exposed_show">
erected were rotting badly and the lighthouse itself had deteriorated
to the point that it was considered barely inhabitable. As such, the old
lighthouse and foundation were demolished in 1866 and the new structure
shown here erected to replace it.</span></span></span></div>
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<img alt="Photo: With the exception of upgrading the Lewis lamps to a Sixth Order Fresnel lens in 1855, little maintenance appears to heave been undertaken at Mamajuda, and after only fifteen years it was evident that the pilings on which the lighthouse was erected were rotting badly and the lighthouse itself had deteriorated to the point that it was considered barely inhabitable. As such, the old lighthouse and foundation were demolished in 1866 and the new structure shown here erected to replace it." class="scaledImageFitWidth img" height="400" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/480369_10151211031944682_2143633934_n.jpg" width="400" /></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The 1866 Mamajuda lighthouse</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">If the 1866 Mamajuda lighthouse appears
familiar, it could well be because it was built as a twin to the Mission
Point lighthouse which was established at the north end of the Mission
Peninsula north of Traverse City four years later. This photo shows the
Mission Point lighthouse as it appeared circa 1880.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><img alt="Photo: If the 1866 Mamajuda lighthouse appears familiar, it could well be because it was built as a twin to the Mission Point lighthouse which was established at the north end of the Mission Peninsula north of Traverse City four years later. This photo shows the Mission Point lighthouse as it appeared circa 1880" class="scaledImageFitWidth img" height="400" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/c67.0.403.403/p403x403/1605_10151211078659682_797049803_n.jpg" width="400" /> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Mission Point light station was built to the same plan as Mamajuda</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">In order to better mark the down-bound channel
from Grassy Island to Mamajuda, in 1892 the Lighthouse Board requested a
Congressional appropriation of $1,500 to erect a front range light
upstream of the island to range with the existing Mam<span class="text_exposed_show">ajuda
lighthouse. Congress approved the expenditure the following year, and
the new timber structure in the river was completed and ready for
lighting on July 16, 1894. This 1902 photo shows this structure and the
elevated walkway which provided access for the keeper from his dwelling
beneath the rear light.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><img alt="Photo: In order to better mark the down-bound channel from Grassy Island to Mamajuda, in 1892 the Lighthouse Board requested a Congressional appropriation of $1,500 to erect a front range light upstream of the island to range with the existing Mamajuda lighthouse. Congress approved the expenditure the following year, and the new timber structure in the river was completed and ready for lighting on July 16, 1894. This 1902 photo shows this structure and the elevated walkway which provided access for the keeper from his dwelling beneath the rear light." class="scaledImageFitWidth img" height="400" src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/c0.26.403.403/p403x403/155985_10151211613869682_769616143_n.jpg" width="400" /> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Mamajuda Front Range Light established in 1894</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent">As a result of constant erosion from the wake
of passing vessels, between 1900 and 1904 a number of changes were
undertaken to improve the conditions on Mamajuda. Thousands of tons of
rip-rap stone were transported to the island to elevate <span class="text_exposed_show">it
further above the water. The old rear range lighthouse was transported
across the river to serve as a dwelling for the keeper of the Grosse
Isle light and a new rear range structure with a circular tower was
erected on the improved ground on Mamajuda. This postcard from 1909
shows the structure as it was rebuilt in 1904 and gives a good sense of
the improved living conditions which resulted.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><img alt="Photo: As a result of constant erosion from the wake of passing vessels, between 1900 and 1904 a number of changes were undertaken to improve the conditions on Mamajuda. Thousands of tons of rip-rap stone were transported to the island to elevate it further above the water. The old rear range lighthouse was transported across the river to serve as a dwelling for the keeper of the Grosse Isle light and a new rear range structure with a circular tower was erected on the improved ground on Mamajuda. This postcard from 1909 shows the structure as it was rebuilt in 1904 and gives a good sense of the improved living conditions which resulted." class="scaledImageFitWidth img" height="400" src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/c17.0.403.403/p403x403/532618_10151211631114682_1301337462_n.jpg" width="400" /> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Mamajuda lighthouse as rebuilt in 1904</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Over the years, the Detroit River was continually dredged to make a safe channel for increasingly larger vessels, and Mamajuda island became washed away, largely as a result of erosion by the bow waves of these huge vessels. Today, Mamajuda Island is largely covered by water, with only small portions of the island appearing above the water's surface during periods of lower water, and the resulting shoal area is now marked by the Mamajuda Shoal buoy.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">This crop from Google Earth shows that Mamajuda Island is now virtually submerged.<br />However, the pilings which supported the old lighthouse can readily be seen beneath the water.</span></span></i></td></tr>
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