Saturday, October 14, 2006
Heat is on first time this season.
This weekend is the 7th Annual NJ Lighthouse Challenge, visiting 11 lighthouses in 2 days. I've been inside only 3 of the 11, never even seen 4 of them. Only Barnegat, Absecon & Cape May are the classic tall stone tower types one associates with the word "lighthouse." But I'm most fond of Hereford Inlet, with a tower built into a Victorian house; it was certainly a less difficult job for a keeper than climbing a 150 foot circular stairway several times each day.
From Overheard In New York:
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
This weekend is the 7th Annual NJ Lighthouse Challenge, visiting 11 lighthouses in 2 days. I've been inside only 3 of the 11, never even seen 4 of them. Only Barnegat, Absecon & Cape May are the classic tall stone tower types one associates with the word "lighthouse." But I'm most fond of Hereford Inlet, with a tower built into a Victorian house; it was certainly a less difficult job for a keeper than climbing a 150 foot circular stairway several times each day.
From Overheard In New York:
Buzz Aldrin's wife: "Every woman should control 75 to 90% of her husband's life."
--Javits Center
