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Deering is a small community on the south shore of Kotzebue Sound near the mouth of the Inmachuk River. Before there was a permanent community here, the Inmachukmiut used this area seasonally. NANA's web site says that people began staying here year round after missionaries built a school on the spit. I am told tha...
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Here is another view of Deering Alaska. This time, I was standing by the road to the airport, just a little inland from from the village.
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The Native Village of Deering occupies a narrow strip of land where the Inmachuk River empties into Kotzebue Sound. Census 2010 counted 122 residents here in 44 households. You can see evidence of subsistence activities, and fish and seals provide a considerable portion of the local diet. The cliffs in the distance are...
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A long shot from the hill above town. The sun has not set on Kotzebue since June 3, and we are getting ready for summer. Most of the sea ice is gone. Some of the more adventurous boaters are braving the ice chunks that linger, well hidden, at the surface in the Sound. The tundra is starting to turn green, but we do...
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This is the West Chop Light which, with the East Chop Light, guards the entrance to Vineyard Haven on Martha’s Vineyard. This light sits on a bluff in Tilsbury, a few miles outside of Vineyard Haven. There were 2 earlier towers at West Chop. The first, a 25-foot stone and rubble tower with a stone keeper’s quar...
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An Edgartown Harbor Light has stood here guarding the entrance to Edgartown Harbor and Katama Bay since 1828. The original light was a 5 room, 2 story house with a constant white light shining from the lantern on its roof. The house stood on stone pilings and was completely surrounded by water. The lighthouse keeper ne...
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The Gay Head Light, which is also called the Aquinnah Light, has been guarding Vineyard Sound and the southern route to Boston Harbor for over 200 years. The original 47-foot octagonal wooden tower and light sat atop these cliffs from 1799 to 1856, when this 51-foot conical brick tower was built to house a new fir...
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This is the East Chop Light on Telegraph Hill near Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard. It marks the east side of the entrance to Vineyard Haven. The East Chop Light is an active aid to navigation with a 300mm optic producing a repeating three second green flash alternating with three seconds of darkness. There w...
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You see very few people enjoying the sun and sand in this panorama of Oak Bluff's Town Beach by the ferryboat landing in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. From Seaview Avenue with its pretty multicolored Victorian B&B's to the foamy waves of Nantucket Sound, there was a delightful expanse of open sand and sedges. The comm...
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The York Abbey, Saint Mary's is a grand ruin in the Museum Gardens of York, England. In its heyday this was a busy Benedictine Abbey. In addition to religious pursuits, the Abbots and the monks who lived here were active in trade, politics and other secular activities. There has been an Abbey on this site since 10...
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