Tuesday began a little blustery with winds from the south. So we decided to take advantage of some of the attractions of the area. The highlight of the day was a visit to the Graveyard of the Atlantic maritime museum on Cape Hatteras. The central display, which you see here, is the Frenzel lens assembly of the original lighthouse on the Cape. It is reconstructed here after a fascinating disassembly and journey to various parts of the country following the War of Northern Aggression. Its parts were even shipped to Stanton Island packed in the official handwritten records of the state of North Carolina. The museum was able to track most of its journey through a well-defined paper trail.
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