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Monomoy Point Light [1] is a historic light in Chatham, Massachusetts.. The station was established in 1823. The first light was a wood tower and brick lantern room on top of the keeper's house.
The Boston and Sandwich Glass Company was incorporated in 1826 to hold the glass factory built a year earlier in Sandwich, Massachusetts, by Deming Jarves. The factory was closed in 1888 amid disputes with a newly formed glassmakers' labor union. [1] The factory was one of the earliest to produce pressed glass. [2]
The original "Cape Cod style" light and keeper's house, c. 1830. Completed in 1827, the original Long Point Light was not a tower structure, but rather consisted of an octagonal lantern centered on the peak of the roof of the wooden keeper's house. Access to the lantern was by a spiral stair from the top floor of the house.
FitzRoy carefully documented his claims on how the storm glass would predict the weather: [3] [failed verification] A catalogue of storm glasses c. 1863. If the liquid in the glass is clear, the weather will be bright and clear. If the liquid is cloudy, the weather will be cloudy as well, perhaps with precipitation.
Pairpoint candlestick, 1912 Brooklyn Museum. Pairpoint is known for three kinds of glass lampshades, originally produced from the mid-1890s through the mid-1920s: reverse painted landscape shades (where the glass is hand painted on the inside surface so colors appear softly through the glass), blown out reverse painted shades, and ribbed reverse painted shades, mostly with floral designs and ...
Tourists visiting Cape Cod Bay can enjoy whale watching, stroll the beaches, and see nearby Plymouth Rock, where the Mayflower landed in 1620. Rudy Balasko // Shutterstock Michigan: Great Lakes State
Sandwich is the site of the Cape Cod Bay entrance to the Cape Cod Canal. The northern point of Sandwich, where Sagamore Hill and Scusset Beach State Reservation lie, is divided from the rest of the town by the canal. The town is also the location of the Shawme-Crowell State Forest and the Massachusetts State Game Farm. The town is home to six ...
Ichiro Suzuki wants to raise a glass with the voter who chose not to check off his name on the Hall of Fame ballot. “There’s one writer that I wasn’t able to get a vote from,” he said ...