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Photo by Julianne Mosher By: Julianne Mosher March 5, 2021 Comments Off on Light @ the end
Photo by Julianne MosherIt has long been a fixture, known around the world as a beacon to guide sailors back home to Long Island. It is taken for granted that it will always be there, standing sentinel at the very end of our Island.
But more than two centuries after its initial construction, the Montauk Point Lighthouse, brimming with history and enduring the elements, needs some tender loving care.
It also needs the money to do it.
“I’m just a person blessed to be here now overseeing the property,” said Joe Gaviola, keeper of the lighthouse, standing next to a display of the former keepers’ decades before him. “I could never compare myself to these guys. There’s so many individual stories in this place.”