Asylum Lighthouse Door BW

by Joan Carroll

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Asylum Lighthouse Door BW

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Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Digital Art

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On a cold winter day after a fresh snowfall, I came upon this cute little lighthouse on the central western shore of Lake Winnebago, just a few miles north of Oshkosh. It would have been a cold posting to maintain this lighthouse! However, the lighthouse, the result of a 1937 project of the Works Progress Administration, was rejected by the Department of Transportation as a navigational light for the lake and was thus never lit. In 2007, the lighthouse received a $4,000 makeover with labor provided by inmates from the Winnebago Correctional Institute. Parts of the wooden lantern room were replaced, windows were refitted, and the metal roof was rebuilt. Although refurbished, it was locked up tight for the winter. On the day that I was there, it was the day before the start of sturgeon spearing season and the Lake Winnebago was crowded with fishing huts waiting for the signal flag!

FEATURED PHOTO, Black And White Photography group, 10/7/15

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October 6th, 2015

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