Lighthouse

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Lighthouses are among the most beloved and romanticized structures in the American landscape.

It is not difficult to find evidence of their hold on the public's imagination.

Lighthouses are emblazoned on postage stamps and license plates, while legions of artists portray them on their canvases.

Many cities and towns incorporate lighthouses into their official seals, and even more businesses and organizations use lighthouses in their logos and advertising.

Scores of books, movies, and television shows employ lighthouses as subjects, plot elements, or as dramatic settings.

Well, I think the number one reason you should care about them, without lighthouses, our country would look quite different.

We were a maritime nation hundreds of years ago, and we're still a maritime nation in the sense that 90% of all the goods we buy are brought to us by ships.

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Four of Charlie Kingston's cargo vessels have met disaster in the waters off Rocky Island, and the latest is wrecked in heavy fog after its captain follows a lighthouse beam toward the channel.

On September 10, 1947, Boston Blackie brought listeners episode 139, Lighthouse Ghost, with Richard Colmar as Blackie, Jan Miner as Mary Wesley, and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday.

Blackie joins Kingston and Mary at Rocky Island Lighthouse, while Inspector Faraday follows the wreck inquiry along the harbor approach.

Keeper Frank Harlow becomes part of a case involving an unexplained light that may be leading ships toward the reef.

The End Thank you.

¶¶ THE END Thank you.

We leave Rocky Island with Boston Blackie's Lighthouse Ghost.

Is a lighthouse a structure or a building? Oh...

Such a good question.

I would argue that it is a building because by definition, and I tried to not get too into the weeds with all of the minutiae of how the Coast Guard and everything else talks about them, but Lighthouses have a housing unit to them, and therefore I consider them buildings.

There are other things that also guide ships to the shore safely, including buoys and...

Buoys? You don't pronounce it buoys?

you know, like kind of these changes.

And then in 1910, they stick it actually under the Department of Commerce.

So create this Bureau of Lighthouses.

Well, you get a grip of

Lighthouse.

The whole point about Lighthouse is it's not next to another one.

It's an

individual, but you could say all the Lighthouse-y of Sardinia sort of thing.

But it was so calming, and it was just lovely to go, right, well, there you go.

We don't have to worry about anything else now.

A previous resident of Vale who was kidnapped during the storms three years earlier.

They kidnap Jenna and Craden and take the three of the four Elemental Stars and then depart for the Lighthouses and release our...

Sorry, they need to light the lighthouses and release alchemy on the world.

So Isaac's party is joined by two other young adepts, Ivan and Mia, that makes your party of four.

32.

Keepers of stations situated where navigation is closed by ice in winter will exhibit their lights so long as any vessel is running in that vicinity.

Lights may be extinguished when navigation is entirely suspended, but must always be shown if it is at all possible for vessels to benefit by them.

Report must be made to the inspector of the time of discontinuance and also of the time of relighting.

33.

Keepers at island stations on the northern lakes must be governed in exhibiting their lights by the action of those on the mainland.

Those who cannot reside at their stations during the winter or who are permitted to be absent by special authority must continue their lights as long as possible in the fall without endangering their lives by being caught in the ice and must return to their stations as early in the spring as the ice will permit.

End of Section 1 Section 2 of Instructions to Lightkeepers by the United States Lighthouse Board This LibriVox recording is in the public domain Care of Lights and their Appurtenances 34.