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Nauset
Light
(Nauset Lighthouse)
Item # 26
Watercolor
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| Details |
| Location: |
Eastham,
Cape Cod, MA |
| Description: |
Sea,
sand bluffs, and an old lighthouse in the summer sunlight of
a Cape Cod day…what could be more benign? But Eastham's
48-foot tower wasn't built for tourists and painters to admire.
When mighty storms pound the cliffs along the Cape's Atlantic
wall, ships could be wrecked there if Nauset Light didn't warn
them of the danger. Identified by its alternating red and white
lights every ten seconds, and painted in those colors for daytime
recognition, the light has saved countless lives in its three
quarters of a century of service.
Originally one of two brick-lined cast iron towers at Chatham,
Nauset Light was moved here and erected in 1924.
Karen North Wells has done many paintings of lighthouses but
this one, she says, has the beauty of the Cape Cod National
Seashore surrounding it. |
| Print
Size: |
9.5"
x 13.5" (16" x 20" matted) |
| See
Also: |
Nauset
Light Mini Puzzle |
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