After yesterday's heat and humidity, we woke up to a cooler morning, just a wonderful day. We were off to Holland Michigan, home to significant numbers of Dutch ancestry. That means the inevitable Tulip festival which we missed this year but saw the last time we were up here. There are many old lighthouses up the east coast of Lake Michigan and each probably has its story. The lighthouse at Holland went from the traditional hand lit lamp to modernization that finally made it redundant . The US Corps of Engineers wanted to demolish it (this is what the army is good at) but the people of Holland stepped in, raised the money to keep and maintain it. There is an active group of "lighthouse keepers" that spend their summers staying and working in many of these old lighthouses.
Henry
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