Also, I went into the gift store promising I wouldn't buy things I don't need, "only a postcard" I said, and then got sucked into this.
(All the stamps were in adjacent buildings places, and the Hansville one was actually not visitable so they just give you the stamp)
I couldn't post this before because I didn't have a good way to keep my phone charged, but.. folks, we made it to Point No Point!
Point no Point is in the Kitsap peninsula in Washington State. In addition to the unusual name, it also has a lighthouse! (I love lighthouses)
Little things like this make me happy 😊
Volunteers will help restore the Peter Island lighthouse, in Digby, Nova Scotia 
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/volunteers-from-across-north-america-giving-crumbling-n-s-lighthouse-a-facelift-1.7563241
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Des bénévoles aideront à restaurer le phare de l’île Peter, à Digby, Nouvelle-Écosse
// Article en anglais //
“This is the biography of an extraordinary family, an impossible sea & an engineering miracle”
Bella Bathurst’s THE LIGHTHOUSE STEVENSONS tells the story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ancestors – 4 generations who designed & built the great lights around Scotland
4/4
https://bellabathurst.com/books/the-lighthouse-stevensons/
#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #Victorian #lighthouse #lighthouses #engineering #InternationalLighthouseWeekend
‘Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not farm from one of the works of my ancestors. The Bell Rock stands monument for my grandfather, the Skerry Vhor for my Uncle Alan, and when the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland, I am proud to think they burn […]
Say not of me that weakly I declined
The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,
The towers we founded and the lamps we lit,
To play at home with paper like a child…
—Robert Louis Stevenson’s apologia for deserting the family trade of lighthouse-building & taking up the pen, instead
3/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #Victorian #lighthouse #lighthouses #engineering #InternationalLighthouseWeekend
“The necessity for marked characteristics in coast illumination increases with the number of lights…”
—“On a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses” – one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s lesser-known works, read before the Royal Scottish Society of Arts on 27 March 1871, & awarded the Society’s Silver Medal
2/4
https://digital.nls.uk/rlstevenson/browse/archive/99383648
#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #Victorian #lighthouse #lighthouses #engineering #InternationalLighthouseWeekend
I send to you, commissioners,
A paper that may please ye, sirs
(For troth they say it might be worse
An’ I believe’t)…
—Robert Louis Stevenson, “To the Commissioners of Northern Lights”, which Stevenson sent to them along with his design for “a new form of intermittent light”
1/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #ScotsLanguage #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #Victorian #lighthouse #lighthouses #engineering #InternationalLighthouseWeekend
“I didn’t really think through what a lighthouse keeper actually did. I was attracted by the romantic notion of sitting on a rock, writing haikus & dashing off the occasional watercolour.”
—Peter Hill in the London Review of Books
16 & 17 August is the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v18/n11/peter-hill/diary
#Scottish #literature #lighthouse #lighthouses #lightship #lightships #ILLW
... and here is the light from the Point No Point lighthouse. A tiny flash on the horizon. You can see the flashes in the video at 3s, and then again around 11s, at a bit less than 1/3 of the frame from left to right.
(Pardon the potato camera quality)
Bubotomy
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Edwin G. 
Assoc for Scottish Literature