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"A Good Day" At
Avery Point Lighthouse
The following update on the memorial brick walkway being established on the
grounds of the Avery Point Lighthouse was provided by Ron Foster, co-chair
of the Avery Point Lighthouse Society
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(Posted July 7, 2005)
Yesterday, July 5th, I met with Dave
Burnett (our Landscaper) at
noontime at Avery Point. We measured and
marked out the entire walkway with spray paint and then had Tony Weston
check out and approve the layout.
Today, July 6th, Dave Burnett and the
Burnett Landscaping crew arrived |
Photo by Ron Foster
Burnett Landscaping crew begins
work on
the walkway at Avery Point Lighthouse
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ready to go to work.
They placed their tool shed next to
the inside corner of the greenhouse loading dock stairway. They drove
stakes into the ground and proceeded to remove the sod with a sod cutter.
The backhoe was waiting to dig in and remove the top soil, with the aid of
the dump truck parked next to the greenhouse. The place was alive, once
again, with the sound of engines roaring and hammers hitting steel stakes.
The boom truck carrying the brick circle pallet, that we purchased from UBS,
arrived shortly following the landscaping crew's arrival and the pallet |
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Photo by Ron Foster
Circle & walkway marked
with paint goes out of sight.
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of bricks was lowered to the ground with
the large boom. Immediately, Dave's forklift picked it up and placed it
next to where it will be installed (where all the walkway paths
presently intersect) in front of the lighthouse tower.
The seven pallets of engraved bricks will
be arriving today also and I have a call into the City of Groton to
deliver two more loads of processed
stone, last thing today or first thing in the morning, from Tilcon.
I did take some pictures with
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both Jim's video camera and my digital SLR. It is very exciting to see the
activity around the lighthouse tower again.
The bricks, other than the circle kit which will go in this week, will start
being installed next Thursday, as the 35 pallets of plain bricks are not due
to arrive until the 13th. I contacted the Master Chief at the Sub Base to
inform him of this so the volunteers from the Base now they are not needed
before the 14th.
Today was a "Good Day"
More
Photos...
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Photo by Ron Foster
Looking back toward the lighthouse from
about ¾ of
the way down the walkway.
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Photo by Ron Foster
Crew member from Burnett Landscaping
drives stakes in.
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A forklift takes the
first pallet of bricks
(the circle) to the site
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Photo by Ron Foster
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Photo by Ron Foster
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Running the
sod-cutter makes a nice edge for the
walkway and
prepares it
for digging.
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Photo by Ron Foster
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Photo by Ron Foster
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I returned at the end of the day
to a very nice walk of packed processed stone
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Day 2 - "A Good Day" At Avery Point Lighthouse
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