Category: The News of the Day

  • Late August is the Best

    Late August is the Best

    We have arrived once again at my favorite time of year. Cool nights and sunny days and the crowds settle down to a manageable number. It has been quiet this summer without the fireworks that marked others. Look back in the posts and you will find some reckless souls making their way down to the…

  • Summer Chores

    Summer Chores

    The Lighthouse lantern room project has been set back by concerns about the bricks that remain between the windows and the platform at the top of the long ladder. The Tower has been taken down 4.6 feet to date and another 4 feet will be broken down before a new foundation is created for the…

  • 3 Pictures

    3 Pictures

    The passage of time in 3 pictures. With thanks going out to Aldie Finney and @aerial.edmund on Instagram. There has been more taken away of the soapstone blocks seen on the left but this is the top of Scituate Light opened up like a giant thermos.

  • Step by Step

    Step by Step

    We begin today with a review of a great day; the annual planting by the Cedar Point Association. Thanks go out to all involved and to Mary Tennaro of the Scituate Beautification Committee who had the mulch delivered early this year and saved me a great deal of one on one time with a wheel…

  • Busy Weeks

    Busy Weeks

    Where to begin is always a question when I have set this site aside for a time. April began with the installation of the boardwalk. It went very well and was phased in over three days to make it manageable. The stretch that leads up to the Tower was not installed and that is a…

  • Cleaning up Wires

    Cleaning up Wires

    The contractor hired to restore Scituate Light visited last Wednesday and that prompted me to get going pulling out wires for the different cameras that remained inside the Tower. The Seawall Camera and the Inside the Light camera were the two that remained in place and I was able to pull them down and back…