Digest>April 2002
Photo Caption:
The Shinnecock Lighthouse meets its violent end. Notice the tower is cracking in half about three quarters of the way toward the top with smoke and dust at the base of the tower. As the lighthouse came down, Mr. Howland, the 88-year-old man who torched the gasoline soaked embers declared, “She weathered blizzards, the hurricane, and many a howling storm, and if the gol-darned Government had left her alone, she’d a-stood for a thousand years.” Photo from the American Lighthouse Foundation Archives. Back to the edition of: April 2002
Story:
Long Island’s Pon Quogue Lighthouse Met Violent End
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