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  • Update on Web Cams

    I think, I think, that all but one of the cameras are online. The Inside the Tower camera remains down for reasons unknown. All the rest should be up and… Read more

  • An Adjustment

    The cameras are temporarily down as I am getting a new modem and I have to make a match between those links and the new device. I am working on… Read more

  • Wrapping up a Busy Year

    To say the year has been full would be to understate the story like a mumble in a hurricane. There has been a ton going on and most of it… Read more

  • A Month Later

    Today’s project, (really the last two glorious, warm November days) was the boardwalk. It is in the yard and stacked for the winter. I rolled it up in record time… Read more

  • Thursday Morning in a Hurry

    Here is the promised timelapse video of the project as it unfolded on Thursday morning. All the hard work is obvious. Read more

  • Taking off the Top

    This is an easy one to write. The pictures tell most of the story. On Thursday October 6, 2022 the lantern room placed at the top of Scituate Light in… Read more

  • Dry and Windy Bro

    We begin with fireworks The dominant story of the summer is the continuing drought. The gardens struggled this summer as different phases of a water ban made it untenable to… Read more

  • Remaking the Connections

    The web cams are back on line. I think I backed into success this time but access to the cameras has been restored. We had a brief power outage in… Read more

  • Get things Growing

    May into June means gardens. I have written about wanting to memorialize Ruth and George Downton with a garden. That is now in place. Signage will follow that describes their… Read more

  • Working on things

    Odds and ends are on the list for this vacation week. The first step to restoring the Light to full health was taken this week when the townspeople of Scituate… Read more

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For the past fifteen years there have been regular posts from one of the oldest lighthouses in the United States. Managed for the Town of Scituate by the Scituate Historical Society since for more than 50 years now, Scituate Light is the pride of this nearly 400 year old New England town.

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