January 2, 2025
Tag: Lighthouse
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Coastal Sentinels: United States Lighthouses
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A thread of shoreline with a lighthouse has long been a focal point for artists and photographers as well as a destination for tourists and lovers. At the close of the postcard’s golden era, around the outbreak of World War I, America boasted more than 1,400 lighthouses. These captivating seascapes are the center pieces of…
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December 30, 2021 8 Comments
Those who lived during the Depression and the war years that followed are elderly today and most memories of the era have vanished. The consequence is that we must turn to the history books and the artists to understand the 1930s and ‘40s. Ray Hoyt’s history and Marshall Davis’s art combined in the book We Can Take It! is a perfect first step.