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Wrapping up the Season
The last open house of the year was held last Sunday. The Tower was made available for guests and many, many young children made their way up the thirty two steps. There were the usual conversations and revelations on just how long someone had lived in town without ever visiting the Light on an Open…
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A New Feature
Among the morning chores was a trip to the top of the Light to vacuum. That happens every 6 to 8 weeks and with an open house coming up it was time. It was also a need generated by the shoring up process. While up there I took some pictures of the late fall surf…
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Keeping up
John Coscia has been by on consecutives weekends to do some siding. This is the wall outside the kitchen and bathroom. This is the side the takes the most weather and it needed tightening up. We look forward to winter mornings without a breeze after a shower. The Tower has been shored up for the…
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Just another Night in Paradise
I have been wondering if I am turning into a vampire. I never much liked garlic; I never much minded blood; I am not allowed to sleep at night. At 11:00 last night 4 or 5 cars in the parking lot emptied to a good deal of shouting. As the parking lot was just graded…
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An Anniversary
These are the remarks I was honored to offer to the Marshfield High School community in September 2011. I shared many of these same ideas with my students in the past two days. Now they are here. Today I hope to reflect on the events of ten years ago and to try to fit them…
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Getting off the Ground
I am sharing a Mat Brown original of Scituate Light in 1811 to get this new phase of blogging off to a proper start. Just as the cottage and Light evolved over time so has this project to capture life at the end of Cedar Point. This evolution has a great deal of potential –…