15 September 25
River Lighthouse
A lot of the people I send postcards to request postcards of lighthouses, and it’s easy to see why: essential features of 19th century coastal navigation, they are now quaint relics in an era of GPS and accurate weather forecasting. But today we chanced upon a singularly rare lightouse: a river lighthouse near Bath, Maine, tiny compared to coastal ones but evidently helping ships across a sandbar.
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