Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist
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All things lighthouse-related, with the occasional detour into maritime history, heritage preservation, and related fields, by an indifferent photographer, incorrigible bibliophile, and unlicensed pharologist. Remember -- typo's mean its real!
The Thacher & Straitsmouth Islands Association has launched a fund drive for $600,000 needed to complete funding for a $2.25 million restoration of the lantern room of the 1861 Thatcher Island South Lighthouse (on left in the photo) near Rockport, Massachusetts. thacherisland.org/keeper-of-th...
In New York City the Landmarks Preservation Commission has begun action to provide landmark protection for the 1890 Coney Island Lighthouse. The landmark designation would protect the lighthouse from alteration or removal and it might lead to public access. gothamist.com/news/coney-i...
Coney Island's small, 1890s lighthouse may be landmarked by the city
It's in the private community of Sea Gate. Family members of the lighthouse's last civilian keeper are keeping its history alive.
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76,000 lighthouses shine in interactive atlas Mapped Earth is an all-things-geospatial website from digital analyst Aaron Becker monitoring winds, rainfall, UV index, and more. It also includes a Lighthouses of the World section. www.popsci.com/technology/l...
Portland Head Light with ocean waves sounds for relaxation
Lighthouse of the day: The 1951 Khersonesskiy (Cape Chersones) Lighthouse marks the western end of Crimea and the entrance to the port of Sevastopol. Before the war it was one of the best known and most visited lighthouses of Ukraine. www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/u...
Scituate Lighthouse during sunrise in Scituate, Massachusetts, USA.
In New Jersey Cumberland County now controls the East Point Lighthouse and plans to reopen it, but the Maurice River Historical Society, which saved and restored the lighthouse and has 27 years experience managing it, has not been asked to help. This makes no sense. www.nj.com/cumberland/2...
Beloved N.J. lighthouse is finally reopening — but the people who rescued it won’t be there
The historic lighthouse will reopen under a new state agreement, sidelining a volunteer group that spent decades restoring and operating the historic landmark.
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A couple of years back, the Hookland Tourist Board did a promotion about how many haunted lighthouses the county has. Of course our lighthouses are haunted, so would you be if you'd seen the things they've seen. Not just ghost ships, but the dark mysteries the sea holds. – Ray Salter #VOH
Graves Light, #Massachusetts. (My 📸, August 2026). #BlueSkyMonday #lighthouse #Boston #BostonHarbor 🧵 1/2
Goodnight from The Lamb Hotel, where David Steed haunts the bar in hope of meeting the brass-eyed man. Goodnight from Ronnie Hart, desperately scrabbling in the glove box of his Vauxhall Chevette for anything to help him escape a place that’s not any map. Goodnight from Hookland.
Broken Water: Twenty Nordic Seas (1862–1970) 5. August Strindberg – Seascape with Rock (1894, Swedish)
Give me stone bestiaries. Give me lithic libraries of strangeness. Let me look up and see impossible animals, a telling of folklore above me. May carvings roar their stories as part of the transmission of the living lore. – #CLNolan #FolkloreSunday
Today is the last day of Banned Books Week, but we want to remind you that resources to protect the freedom to read are always available 📚 Book Resumes provide info to defend books from censorship: https://bit.ly/4mReT6L Additional resources here: https://bit.ly/4dsJeVW
Broken Water: Twenty Nordic Seas (1862–1970) 13. Peder Balke – North Cape (1845, Norwegian)
🐙 TODAY IS WORLD OCTOPUS DAY 🐙 Octopuses are intelligent, mysterious & vital to our oceans. Yet many suffer from overfishing, bycatch & cruel octopus farms. Protecting them means protecting ocean biodiversity. #FriendsNotFood #SaveTheEarth
💡Près de 110 ans après son allumage, les youtubeurs Amixem & Yvan ont passé 24 heures dans le mythique phare en mer de Kéréon en compagnie des agents des Phares & Balises, qui continuent d'entretenir ce "Palace des enfers"⬇️ youtu.be/s5ssqJLDdxA?...
ON VIT 24H DANS UN PHARE EN PLEINE MER !
YouTube video by Amixem
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Lighthouse of the day: The 1897 Geita Lighthouse at Askvoll, a town on the central west coast of Norway, looks like it just stepped out of a Norwegian folk tale. The house is leased to resident artists. www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/n...
In Belize the century-old Baron Bliss Memorial Lighthouse, threatened by a compromised foundation, will be removed and replaced by a new but identical lighthouse. www.breakingbelizenews.com/2026/10/02/h...
The 1841 Europa Point Lighthouse in Gibraltar has opened for public guided tours for the first time. This famous lighthouse, marking the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea, is operated by Trinity House, the English lighthouse agency. www.yourgibraltartv.com/daily/trinit...
Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876-1923) Linden Avenue on Lijdijkweg and Oostkapelle near Domburg, 1909. Dutch painter who specialized in semi abstract landscapes #WomensArt
Iceland is moving to end commercial whaling permanently. That would leave just Japan & Norway as the 2 nations which legally allow whaling uk.whales.org/2026/09/11/i...
Icelandic government to introduce bill to end whaling - Whale and Dolphin Conservation
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Reef squid possess a rare combination of semitransparency and the ability to change body color via chromatophores: this one shows how rapidly they can perform a body color change. [📹 fishingaroundus] Original post
The Port Burwell Historical Society in Ontario says engineers have completed their study of the deteriorated Port Burwell Lighthouse and restoration work can begin in the spring. The Society has $455,000 in hand to begin the work but will need another million. lfpress.com/news/local-n...
Historic lighthouse restoration could begin next spring
The historical society now overseeing the 1840 lighthouse has raised $455,000 but says major repairs will depend on further funding.
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The Coast Guard plans this week to repair the lens rotating mechanism at the Nobska Lighthouse in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. A dimmer backup light has been operating with the main light out of service. www.capenews.net/falmouth/new...
Lighthouse of the day: The very popular 1846 Covesea Skerries Lighthouse in Moray, Scotland. When the lighthouse was deactivated in 2012 the community purchased it and has developed it with a museum, visitor center, and keeper's cottages open for overnight stays. www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/s...
Scaffolding surrounds the Nubble Lighthouse in York, Maine, as the lighthouse is repainted. The work should be completed by the end of October. wgme.com/news/local/n...
Nubble Lighthouse gets a makeover
Workers are ferrying equipment to Nubble Island in York by tram and rowing inflatable rafts back and forth from the mainland.
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