From the Keeper’s Desk – May 19

Greetings!

It was an action packed day at the light station. Staff and volunteers were on hand to prepare the lighthouse for opening day Friday May 23. Cannot say enough about how wonderful the lighthouse looks with everything in place after all the inside painting.

Dining room before

Music room before

Parlor before

First floor bedroom before

Wendy and Amy in the parlor

Amy setting up bedroom

Wendy, Ann and Chuck in the music room

Ann, Chuck and John in the dining room

Amy hanging curtains

First floor hallway

Parlor is ready

First floor bedroom ready

Music room is set up

Dining room

Dining room from the other side

Guest room is set up

Upstairs hallway

Boys bedroom is ready

John cutting back thhe vegetation

Action Electric was working on power for the summer kitchen and barn.

Max using a hydrolic punch to connect breaker panel to underground conduit

Mike and Frankie checking electrical plans

Frankie installing breakere panel in summer kitchen

Frankie sending wire through conduit

Max received the wire

Summer kitchen connecting

National Restoration arrived to continue their restoration work.

National Restoration is back!

Removing lower sash for repair

Lower window in tower removed for repair

Laaksonen Builders was working on framing inside the barn.

Siding for the summer kitchen

Billy working on framing the 2nd story of the barn

Second floor

Billy and Mike working on framing barn stairs

Mike working on a stair stringer

Full fleet off work vehicles today!

The day was capped off by a Door County Historical Society dinner program at Villaggio’s Restaurant. It was a fine dinner of distinction and an interesting program by Meredith Renard about the Legacy of Service that explores the lives of early northeast Wisconsin settlers who were the children and grandchildren of American Revolution patriots.

Ed