Today’s mystery is a memorial to fallen heroes, so the question becomes, where is it? Make this identification to win our prize of your name in print in the next issue. Send your thoughts to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
Jay Altman of Columbia, S.C. was among the many who who both identified the recent Mystery Photo and provided the recent story. She wrote: “It’s the Marshall Point Light in Port Clyde, Maine. In the Tom Hanks movie, Forrest Gump, Forrest ended his cross-country run on the walkway leading from the lightkeeper’s house to the light itself.”
Others getting it right included Kay Montgomery, Duluth; Stew Ogilvie, Lawrenceville; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex., who added that the Marshall Point Lighthouse was first established in 1832 to assist boats entering and leaving Port Clyde Harbor. The original lighthouse was a 20-foot tower lit by seven lard oil lamps with 14-inch reflectors. This tower was replaced with the present structure in 1857. Now it is a 31-foot tall white brick tower on a granite foundation. The original keeper’s house was destroyed by lightning in 1895 and replaced with the Colonial Revival style house shown in today’s mystery photo. The lighthouse was automated in 1980 and the original Fresnel lens was replaced with a modern set of 12 inch optics.”
Editor adds: “Seems like others sent answers but we can’t find them. If so, let us know.”
- SHARE A MYSTERY PHOTO: If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: elliott@brack.net and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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