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RE: all different kinds of light house paintings also and tell about them if you can

7/9/2010 1:16:03 AM

n his book Cape Cod, Henry David Thoreau described passing Minot's Ledge Light in 1849:

Here was the new iron light-house, then unfinished, in the shape of an egg-shell painted red, and placed high on iron pillars, like the ovum of a sea monster floating on the waves...

When I passed it the next summer it was finished and two men lived in it, and a light-house keeper said that ina recent gale it had rocked so as to shake the plates off the table. Think of making your bed thus in the crest of a breaker!

The lighthouse was finished in late 1849. It was lighted for the first time on January 1, 1850. It was the first lighthouse in the United States to be exposed to the ocean's full fury.

Library of Congress

The first keeper—at $600 yearly—was Isaac Dunham, a Massachusetts native. There were usually two keepers on duty at a time; Dunham’s assistants included his son, Isaac A. Dunham, and Russell Higgins of Cape Cod.

Dunham didn’t believe the structure was safe. Only a week after the light went into service, he wrote in the log (original spelling retained):

Clensd the Lantern for Liting in a tremendous Gale of wind. It seames as though the Light House would go from the Rock.

In April 1850, Dunham wrote:

Isaac Dunham

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Karen 324 1410 Anoka	RE: all different kinds of light house paintings also and tell about them if you can 7/9/2010 1:40:02 AM
	A little 2 year siniging the lords prayer,all the light house need this amen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR4PQ30VkBk&feature=related
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Karen 324 1410 Anoka	RE: all different kinds of light house paintings also and tell about them if you can 7/9/2010 1:47:25 AM
	Same little girl at 2 singing. gospel. amen The light house can always use the help of the Lord. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS93Q4jQAO0&feature=channel
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Karen 324 1410 Anoka	RE: all different kinds of light house paintings also and tell about them if you can 7/9/2010 4:51:05 PM
	Beautiful Light house
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Karen 324 1410 Anoka	RE: all different kinds of light house paintings also and tell about them if you can 7/9/2010 6:05:25 PM
	Indians and the sea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__hqmsIV1Ig&feature=related
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