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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 the middle of the process caused by March type winds but perseverance is the key to life. While I had this screen up I thought […]
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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 contributions (only John Cushman spent more time here) with notes on the the building of Lighthouse Park and the October 1991 storm that undid so […]
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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 voted at Town Meeting to support a Community Preservation Project advanced by the Trustees to rebuild the Lantern Room. I have written before of the […]
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Another Anniversary
Sixty six years ago Scituate found itself with a crisis on Cedar Point. A huge ship had grounded and would bring scores of stories to every neighborhood. Traffic. Oil. An angry cook. A worried captain. Generosity. Selling gallons of coffee and potato chips from a school bus. Dynamite and sea anchors. All of these references […]
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277
Today marks my 13th complete year as the Lightkeeper. The 277 refers to the number of posts in this blog to date. There should probably be more of them but for different times I got waylaid by work, or by sensing that I was repeating myself, or by being laid up with my bout of […]
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A Bright Day After
Early start today as power was restored in the wee hours and we moved quickly off the generator and back onto the grid. This was not a difficult storm. The biggest challenge was the temperature (it is still only 14 degrees) but there were no frozen pipes, no loss of hot water, and no issues […]
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2022 has its own Blizzard
Early in January we often see skies like the one above. You get up a little early and pull over in the Yacht Club parking lot and wonder if you could possibly count the colors. This is not today’s sky however. We are at the end of January and that is blizzard weather. A historic […]
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Keeping up with the Chores
The end of November and the beginning of December bring a list of chores to the Light. There is winterizing to do with windows to dog down and furniture to put out of harm’s way. There is a wreath to hang for the holidays and when the wind blows other jobs come along with the […]
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Veterans Day
Many veterans are remembered today and our regards include our active duty son-in law Ian. Ebenezer Osborne lived in Scituate Light in the 1940’s. The Cottage and Tower were in tough shape and his reporting led to a good deal of work being done to improve the Light. The 1840 census tells us that he […]
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Making the Turn to the Fall
The storm windows are down and the first oil delivery of the season came today. I am picking up a week’s worth of news and a few images. On Wednesday, with a good amount of warning, a storm bringing extreme winds came in and pushed the Cottage around for about 10 hours. School was called […]
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