Nauset Beach Light & 3Sisters

Nauset Beach Light
New paint job and cedar shakes (since my last visit) on this famous beauty. It's nice to see a Light being kept up this well!
There was a house for sale around the corner, next to Three Sisters, and two houses for summer rental!
I'll keep you posted, I just love this place!

That is one great picture of Nauset Light. The Cape is one great place isn't it? I just love to get out there. Thanks for sharing that one Bob.

So, Bob, you are MaryAnn are buying a place on the cape???? You realize you will have to set up a visitation schedule for everyone. . .

Lovely shot, Bob. Do you have a picture of the Three Sisters? I would love to see a picture of them. One day, I'm going to make it up to that part of the country.

Nice paint job great picture

Good picture.

You asked for it, you got it Grace!
Only the middle one has the top.

Three Sisters


Two of the Three Sisters


Bob

Great pictures Bob. Please excuse the ignorance, but I take it the Three Sisters are not active lights any longer, are they? They seem to be a bit too surrounded by trees to be useful

You right Margret, they're not active. They are in a little park that is a short walk from Nauset Light.

Here's some history:
3 Sisters

Bob

Besides having the lighthouse at that location, there is a fabulous beach right across the street. That would be a great location to rent a place for vacation. You could get up early for the sunrise and close enough to stop by for the sunset.

There are numerous great lights in that area of the Cape. Do it, Bob! We'll come visit you!

Bob

Often!

Bob, thank you so much for posting the Three Sisters. I wonder if there are plans to restore the tops on the other two. Margret, I can't find it now but I posted some info. in another thread - a background story on the three sisters for whom they think the lights are named. I believe I found the article in the index for Lighthouse Digest.

Bob's post made me do a little digging in an old album ... Here's a picture of "one" sister from September 1982 ...



To get your bearings ...
... picture getting out of your car in the paved parking lot and looking at the lighthouse ... the three sisters are to your left, a few hundred yards from the lot, behind some trees in a grassy clearing ... and yes, there are three.
... then, in 1982, the lighthouse was a few hundred yards nearer to the cliff and a little closer to the lot. I don't believe it was paved at that time. The "sister" would have been directly behind you, at the far end of what is the parking lot today ... sitting alone by itself in the condition you see ... well on the west side of the road you enter the area on ...

Very interesting picture, Barry. Thanks for sharing! You either have a darn good memory or some good notes to be able to "locate" the light as you have.

Thanks for sharing that picture. The NPS has done a nice job of restoring the three from the looks of your picture and Bob's later pictures. When I read the story of the three women who were sisters and for whom the lights may have been named, it sparked an interest and so I bought the HL version at a recent dealer closing.

Nice pictures Bob! I haven't been on the cape since the Providence, RI reunion. It would be fun to go back. Let me know when you get your house there for your friends to stay and visit you.

... it looks like a lovely place to visit... Well maybe some day ... you never know! But thanks for showing those pictures.
Grance I seem to remember reading a story about those three women a while back. Must have a look thorugh our books....

... just looked again and found the story about the three girls...
The Three Sisters by Don Sparrow

Thank you for the link Margret. A very interesting story even thought I had never heard about any connection to three girls.

Not intending to sound like an Old Codger....Back in '96, when I first looked at the Harbour Light LE Nauset Beach, it didn't immediately grab me. I eventually bought it, anyway, just for the sake of a complete collection, and it became one of my favorite pieces. That was relatively early in the HL production, when the telling little details---such as a door ajar, as in Nauset---really caught my attention. I even liked the GLOW version, with the autumn coloring. It's gratifying to see the photo [above] which includes the keepers' dwelling. So many photos focus only on the tower.

Danny

Thanks, Margret, I posted that link in another thread not ten days ago and couldn't find it, although my feeble memory recalled that I found it in the Lighthouse Digest website. At the time, Danny had mentioned that he does genealogy research, so I thought it might be of interest.

Then there is always the Charles Wysocki rendition ...

Grover you got some good ones!

Love it; it's a great one!

The Harbour Lights versions in the next post of the lighthouses...

If nothing else it show's how much better my camera's have gotten and I how much better shooting the product shots I have gotten over the years... Same clouds!!

Very sharp pictures, Paul. Can't wait to see your pictures of the new releases.

Barry, that "old" photo of yours - is that from when the lighthouse was one that was a privately owned summer place?

Sue,

I really don't know the answer ... but in the article Bob linked to his original post, it mentions that the NPS took possession of that tower in 1975 ... they had previously aquired the other two ... and it was a year after my picture was taken ... in 1983 ... that the towers were all moved to their present location and the restoration began ...

That's correct, Barry. When I first found the Lighthouse Digest article by Don Sparrow, it referred to the fact that the NPS purchased the buildings in 1975. I believe restoration was completed in 1989.

I like that painting Grover.

Thanks Eric ...

Charles Wysocki has been a favorite in our home for quite awhile ... I may have posted this link once before ... if so, I apologize, but if not, and you enoyed "The Three Sisters of Nauset" you might like this as well ...

http://wisher11.freewebspace.com/main.html

I'm glad you posted that link; frankly, even if you had posted before, some of us might have missed it. I love Wysocki's work - first became familiar with it through the puzzles! He's done some beautiful paintings.

Just Love that "Take Out Window" picture.