Marblehead Light Metal Print

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Lighthouse Friends.com says " Folks seems to find Marblehead's brown skeleton tower either charmingly unusual or downright ugly". Edward Rowe Snow wrote in The Lighthouses of New England, " ..it is to be realized that lighthouses are for utility and not for beauty, but in this case it is especially unfortunate that beauty and utility were not combined." It is the only one of its type in New England, but there are similar ones in the mid-Atlantic and in Florida. This lighthouse is located in Chandler Hovey Park on Marblehead Neck in a lovely, albeit small, park with free parking. It's a perfect spot for watching the summer sailboat races. Marblehead's larger harbor became an important center for trade and fishing by the early 1800s, and funds were appropriated for a lighthouse in 1834. The current tower, taller at 105' than the first, was erected in 1896.

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Protected with PIXSY About Joan Carroll: I am a Fort Worth Texas-based outdoor photographer who feels at home while on the road...in Texas, in the US, around the world. Although travel and photography were dual interests from a young age, the coming of the digital camera provided undreamed of opportunities and unleashed previously untapped creativity. My photographic goal is to travel the world in a curious yet respectful way, taking the time to see and understand the unique story of each place I visit. Wherever I go I want to walk every street, hike every trail, ride the bus or metro, climb every tower, walk around and through every monument, and then do it all over again when the light changes. In every place, light, mood, color, and...