snapshots of history
¶ by Rob FrieselIn all of last week’s commotion, I almost missed this completely:
In October 2010, we were privileged to get a tour of Portland Head Light, 1 including a peek inside the actual lamp housing. As so many of my pictures do, these ended up on Flickr to be shared with the world. 2 And sometime in the past week or so, Flickr user “paul1481” found them and left a few comments.
The interesting part? Apparently, “paul1481” is one of Portland Head Light’s former lighthouse keepers, and he lived/worked there for a few years in the 1980s. His comments add some interesting color and history to the pictures themselves and I’m grateful that he did.
- Portland Head Light is apocryphally “the most photographed lighthouse in the world”; and regardless of the veracity of that statement, it’s definitely one of the most picturesque, and probably my all-time favorite.[↩]
- Translation: whoever happens to be bored enough to look at my photos.[↩]
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