– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Bettys Hope Details Part 2 In the last post we started to look at some of the details of the Bettys Hope windmills. (click here to learn more about life on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation). We left that post with a view of the entrance into the windmill to where the mechanism for grinding the sugar cane can be...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Bettys Hope Details Part 1 Bettys Hope, which we looked at in February last year, was the largest sugar plantation in Antigua (click here to learn more about life on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation). It is somewhere I like to try to visit each time we are on the island. My images from each visit, though, had...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Doubling Point Lighthouse Doubling Point Lighthouse is located at the west end of Arrowsic Island, Maine, in the main channel of the Kennebec River where it takes a sharp turn. Though perhaps hard to imagine today, at one time the Kennebec River was a very busy waterway as evidenced by the river traffic report...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Colorful Lobster Floats Two from the archives for today’s post. These colorful lobster floats are the markers for the pots. I had been shooting the boats in Boothbay Harbor on a foggy morning. These floats were hanging on the side of a building I passed on the walk back to my car. The fog had begun to...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Spruce Forest Artisan Village For over 35 years Spruce Forest Artisan Village has been a seedbed for those wishing to learn and pursue the traditional arts and crafts of our colonial roots. It is part of the Penn Alps extended campus which was established in 1957 by Alta Schrock. Whilst teaching in Indiana,...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Lighthouse at Castillo de San Felipe del Morro Four lighthouses have served to mark the entrance to Puerto San Juan, one of the most important ports in the Spanish Empire. The first Puerto San Juan Lighthouse, and the first in all of Puerto Rico, was reportedly built in 1846 and exhibited a light using five...
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