Painted Old Scituate Lighthouse
by Skip Willits
Title
Painted Old Scituate Lighthouse
Artist
Skip Willits
Medium
Photograph - Epson Lustre Paper
Description
This digitally painted accent piece will please any collector or anyone with an eye for color and texture. The oil paint processing technique lends additional tone and texture to the image and is best seen enlarged.
OLD SCITUATE LIGHTHOUSE
ATLANTIC OCEAN
SCITUATE HARBOR, MASS
Fog----Rocky Coast------Lighthouses, it must be New England. This lighthouse has all of the above. This light was built to protect Scituate Harbor in 1810 and lit in 1811. The interesting history surrounding this light has to do with the two daughters of keeper Simon Bates. The daughters were Abigail and Rebecca. During the War of 1812 the young daughters of the keeper prevented a British naval force from sacking the town by playing a fife and beating a drum. Evidently this “Army of Two” induced such fear in the British and convinced them that there was indeed an army of resistance lying in wait, and thus saved the town.
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May 9th, 2018
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