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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist
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All things lighthouse-related, with the occasional detour into maritime history, heritage preservation, and related fields, by an indifferent photographer, inarticulate polyglot, and unlicensed pharologist. Typos guaranteed. #lighthouse
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · Nov 22
"The lighthouse and the lightship appeal to the interest and better instinct of [humanity] because they are symbolic of never-ceasing watchfulness, of steadfast endurance in every exposure, of widespread helpfulness."

-- George Rockwell Putnam, US Commissioner of Lighthouses, 1910-1935.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 9h
The Thirty Mile Point #Lighthouse on #LakeOntario in #NewYork will celebrate its 150th anniversary this Sunday, October 12, from 11am to 4pm. 🥂🎉🎂

(My 📸, September 2016)

#UpstateNewYork #GreatLakes

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A two-story stone house with a pitched roof and an attached square lighthouse tower with a black iron lantern.
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Russ Rowlett - Lighthouse Directory @lhdirectory.bsky.social · 19h
Under New York's George Washington Bridge the Jeffrey's Hook Lighthouse (aka The Little Red Lighthouse) is open for rare guided tours today. www.untappedcities.com/little-red-l...
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 15h
The Poolbeg Yacht and Boat Club in #Dublin, #Ireland, will host a talk entitled "Lighting the Sea: The John R. Wigham Story," on Thursday, October 16, at 8pm. The talk will tell the story of the noted #lighthouse engineer, and will be delivered by his descendant, Jonathan Wigham.

#MaritimeHistory
Shining a Light on Ireland's Lighthouses
Join the DBOGA's lecture on John Wigham's pioneering lighthouse invention, 16 October in Dublin.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 15h
The 1886 Fanad (Fánaid) Head #Lighthouse in County #Donegal, #Ireland, has had a banner year, hosting 65,704 visitors (1,330 of whom stayed overnight) and leading over 22,500 guided tours.
Fanad Lighthouse leading the way with impressive visitor numbers - Highland Radio - Latest Donegal News and Sport
Fanad Lighthouse reported robust tourism figures for the last year, welcoming 65,704 visitors, including 1,330 overnight guests and conducting over 22,500 guided tours. The site offers a diverse exper...
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 16h
A friendly pharological salute to Mario Sanz, the last keeper of the Mesa Roldán #Lighthouse in #Almeria, #Spain, who has retired after 33 years of service.

#faro #España
El último farero de Almería se jubila tras 33 años iluminando el mar: "Me cuesta mucho dejarlo"
Mario Sanz era uno de los pocos que quedaban en España, una profesión en peligro de extinción | Cadena SER
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 20h
Samuel Austin was an English painter from Liverpool who worked mostly in watercolor. He is best known for his seascapes.

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Samuel Austin (artist) - Wikipedia
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 20h
#LighthouseArt of the Day

Samuel Austin (British, 1796-1834), The Black Rock Fort and #Lighthouse, #Liverpool, n.d., oil on panel.

Courtesy Walker Art Gallery, liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker-art-gallery

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#art #artsky #BritishArt #OilPainting #MaritimeArt #seascape
A lighthouse tower stands in fromt of a fortified structure on the shore of a choppy sea. In the foreground is a small boat with five figures in it; more, larger sailing ships are in the background. Seabirds are wheeling about in the sky, which is mostly cloudy, with a patch of blue in the upper left corner.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 20h
The 1839 #Chania #Lihthouse on #Crete, #Greece, will be illuminated in purple light for World #RettSyndrome Awareness Day on Saturday, October 18.

#φάρος #Ελλάδα #Κρήτη #Χανιά
Φωταγωγείται ο Φάρος στο Ενετικό Λιμάνι Χανίων για την Παγκόσμια Ημέρα Ευαισθητοποίησης για το Σύνδρομο Rett - CRETA24
ΚΡΗΤΗ - Ο Δήμος Χανίων, σε συνεργασία με το Δημοτικό Λιμενικό Ταμείο Χανίων και τον Σύλλογο Reverse Rett Greece, συμμετέχει στην πανελλαδική εκστρατεία ενημέρωσης
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 21h
#StormAmy has caused extensive damage to the 1855 Stangholen #Lighthouse in #Norway.

#fyr #Norge
«Amy» herjet vilt med Stangholmen fyr – Norsk Fyrforening
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Russ Rowlett - Lighthouse Directory @lhdirectory.bsky.social · 3d
The Heceta Head Lighthouse in Oregon has scheduled Haunted House tours October 24 and 25, linked to legends of a ghost said to haunt its keeper's house. Heceta Head is the only Oregon lighthouse preserving its original keeper's house. www.beachconnection.net/news/cavalca...
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 1d
#LighthouseArt of the Day

Claude #Monet (French, 1840-1926), The jetty at le Havre, 1868, oil on canvas.

Private collection, via Wikimedia Commons

#art #artsky #impressionism #seascape #harborscape #OilPainting #MaritimeArt #ArtFrançais #FrenchArt
People stand along a jetty against whichbwaves are breaking. The jetty is lined with lampposts, with a white lighthouse tower with a black metal lantern at the end. A rainbow is to the right.
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Lighthouse Hunter @lighthousehunter.bsky.social · 5d
Your moment of calm at Champlain Memorial Lighthouse during sunrise

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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 1d
The Sodus Bay #Lighthouse and Historical Society in #NewYork has named Mary Challman its new director. Ms. Challman will oversee the operations of the museum at the site of the 1871 lighthouse on #LakeOntario.

#museumsky #UpstateNewYork #GreatLakes
Sodus Bay Lighthouse Museum has new director
SODUS POINT — The Sodus Bay Lighthouse & Historical Society has a new director.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 1d
The 1863 Hirtshals #Lighthouse in #Denmark will host the launch of a new book on the lighthouses of #Scandinavia, focusing on the region between the #NorthSea and the #BalticSea. English and Norwegian editions are to follow.

#fyr #MaritimeHistory #booksky #Skandinavia #LighthouseLibrary
Skandinavisk fyrbok lanseres på Hirtshals fyr – Norsk Fyrforening
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 2d
Probably this work, to be precise.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 2d
The HMS Atalante "was an 18-cannon sloop-of-war launched in 1808, and ordered in 1806, from Bermuda. However, the ship was wrecked on 10 November 1813, caused by fog off Halifax, Nova Scotia." The drawing is therefore likely copied from an earlier work.

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#MaritimeHistory
HMS Atalante (1808) - Wikipedia
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 2d
The lighthouse in the distance is presumably the Sambro Island Lighthouse, a 25m (82') tower built at the entrance to the harbor of #Halifax in 1759. The order for its construction was the first act passed by the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

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#CoastalHistory
Sambro Island Light - Wikipedia
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 2d
#LighthouseArt of the Day

W. E. Bailey (British, 19th c), HMS 'Atalante' passing Sambro (Nova Scotia) at sunset, 1851, #drawing.

Courtesy Royal Museums Greenwich, rmg.co.uk

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#art #artsky #BlueSkyMonday #MaritimeArt #lighthouse #NovaScotia #BritishArt
A three-masted sloop with billowing sails is at the center of the image,sailing from right to left. The ship is flying the British Red Ensign, a flag with a red field and the Union Jack in the upper left corner. Three smaller craft are also at sail. The sly is blue with patchy clouds. Hills rise on the shore in the background to the right, and a lighthouse stands in the distance to the left.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 3d
An interview with Therese Langer Worlfel of #GreenBay, #Wisconsin. Ms. Langer is the author of a new book about her mother, Vivian, the daughter of a #lighthouse keeper on the #GreatLakes.

#booksky #LighthouseLibrary #MaritimeHistory #WomensHistory
Light Hearted ep 327 – Therese Langer Woelfel and “Our Guiding Light”
Podcast Episode · Light Hearted · 10/05/2025 · 53m
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 3d
Carl Frederik Sørensen was a Danish artist known particularly for his maritime works.

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Carl Frederik Sørensen - Wikipedia
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 3d
#LighthouseArt of the Day

Anonymous, after Carl Frederik Sørensen (Danish, 1818-1879), #Seascape with #lighthouse, 1862-1876, #lithograph.

Courtesy Rijksmuseum, Rijksmuseum.nl

#art #artsky #MaritimeArt #lithography

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A lighthouse stands to the left of the scene on a rocky headland by a calm sea under a cloudy, moonlit sky. A two-masted shop is at sail on the sea in the lower right corner.
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Gardien2Phare @gardien2phare.bsky.social · 5d
Le vent se lève, on entre dans la saison des tempêtes... 💨

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Stefan’s Lens on the North @sts63.bsky.social · 4d
The M. Davidsen, once a proud vessel, now lies silent near the old herring factory in Djúpavík, Iceland. Docked here in 1935 to house factory workers. Now it's a red rusty beauty.

#Iceland #Shipwreck #Djupavik
#Landscape #Landscapes
#Landscapephotography
#Nikon #Photography #Vessel
#Rust
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 5d
Autumn Travel, Kyoko Imazu.
Painting a large brown rabbit sitting in a field of autumn leaves, looking up and to the left. A smaller rabbit is positioned in the foreground. Surrounding the rabbits are numerous small, dark, humanoid figures with animal-like features, some of which are floating in the air, while others are on the ground or interacting with the rabbits. A small house and a lighthouse are visible in the background.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social · 4d
Charles Alphonse Mercereau was a French designer and lithographer. Educated as an engineer, he served in the naval administration before resigning and establishing himself as a lithographer, first in his native Rochefort, then in Paris, with a focus on architectural drawings and landscapes.

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Charles Mercereau — Wikipédia
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