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Storage Location The current storage location in the Archives or Museum Richard Sullivan Room Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1061 Title A name given to the resource Conanicut Point Lighthouse - Model Description An account of the resource This lighthouse was built in 1886, standing at 45ft tall with a fixed red character. It is located at 41 degrees North and 71 degrees West, North end on Conanicut Island. Conanicut Point was maintained for 47 years until it was discontinued in 1933. Type The nature or genre of the resource Physical Object Dennis Model East Wall Sullivan Room https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/bab4de5a816fb3967532cb88f992493f.jpg 6a4bf6d6490c5c23416b8ccdd94d449b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Joe Bouchard Model Collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 32 Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Storage Location The current storage location in the Archives or Museum RI Lighthouses Room Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Conimicut Light Model Warwick RI Description An account of the resource Conimicut Light Model Warwick RI made by Joe Bouchard Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1503 https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/75321384ded42bd22108ab6a34a4cf56.jpg 4e18bda51674e7bc3c1cd6385da3e426 https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/101335722c712bd1bcf44cb3b3a6abf7.jpg 846df3359b3f42ac0716bac59194bd0c https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/ff76485d5081a53fe8af81ee777c2927.jpg 7ba7be7e8edb19250289e09e46e49343 https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/00a013c6639ba0ca73832638cba971ae.jpg 0620e294540b9e89aafbd8cd9acd313e https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/02935f4190c867e984b7fa7e62a862a8.jpg ca88bc83155ba1f4a9ded193411670eb https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/c3e0f4fa7ca83dacdce874b2921a17e2.png 33d3e62b861e8406a5bf41b2c5c1fe63 Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Storage Location The current storage location in the Archives or Museum Richard Sullivan Room Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1045 Title A name given to the resource Conimicut Lighthouse - Model Description An account of the resource This lighthouse was built in 1868, standing at 58ft tall and has a fixed white with red sector. It has a bell as its fog signal and is located 41 degrees North and 71 degrees West on the end of Conimicut sand split. Type The nature or genre of the resource Physical Object Dennis Model East Wall Sullivan Room https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/d1c4f4bbca17e2d3213290b52b0e0fd6.jpg 38c02d2e3152b4654ac55df5fe544e19 https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/589c0b683c52e9326da6b44b587c380c.jpg 76792eb914185d630b3d2fcfcb91c0f1 Current Exhibit A currently in use wall exhibit at the museum that may consist of text, photo(s) and/or other physical objects Storage Location The current storage location in the Archives or Museum Keepers Hall Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1129 Title A name given to the resource Creation of Beavertail State Park Description An account of the resource Storyboard describing the events leading to the creation of Beavertail State Park. Type The nature or genre of the resource Wall Display, Picture/Photo, Document Tower Hallway West Wall https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/6f107a01cb2ed1bad3e8e58e7bd9cc22.jpg b11954591f08d2fc218ca4e7b958ee0a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dennis Lighthouse Models Description An account of the resource This collection of 21 handmade wooden models, each representing a lighthouse in Rhode Island, was created by Robert Dennis. Robert Dennis was in the US Lighthouse Service in the 1930’s and later on ships in the North Atlantic convoys. During WWII he served on an attack transport in the US Coast Guard.  He was in the Invasion of Normandy, Italy, Iwo Jima, Okinawa.  Dennis donated the models to the the Beavertail Lighthouse Museum. They are on display at the museum in the Richard Sullivan Room.  Type The nature or genre of the resource Physical Object Dennis Model East Wall Sullivan Room https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/93e0b88fe16dee871d2a26e5470d9a2c.jpg 133a37e01559629a4aff64012d9783e4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1131 Title A name given to the resource Description of Lighthouse Tower Description An account of the resource The Granite Light tower was built in 1856, standing at 56ft high above hightide. It has an identical tower at Watch Hill Light, however, it is lesser in height. The tower has 2ft thick wall with more than 4,500 blocks in it. Inside the tower, there is a cast iron spiral staircase with a central tube. It contains 49 steps plus a 6ft ladder to the "watch room" and the entrance to the Gallery Observation Deck. The light itself is maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard's Bristol based Aids to Navigation Team (ANT). In addition to this, the light is a rotating beacon that is continuous and revolves at 10 RPM (revolution per minute) and appears to flash every 10 seconds. Type The nature or genre of the resource Wall Display Tower Room West Wall https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/eb7c62abd4eab7a8ef1853840d05c7b1.jpg 29f49308ad47b2af964680bf31ae4a75 PDF Document Document in PDF format Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Beavertail's Light keeper from 1951 through 1969, Dominic Turillo passed away at age 91 on May 8, 2016. Assigned to Beavertail from Rose Island Light, Dominic was a frequent visitor to Beavertail after his retirement. He often came into the museum with a news clipping about his days at Beavertail and expecially enjoyed relating his favorite fishing story and location on the rocks around the light. An energetic Keeper and amazingly the father of 11 children, 40 grandchildren and 40 great grandchildren, he left a legacy at Beavertail to be remembered by all BLMA docents and those that met him Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dominic Turillo - Death Notice from the Lighthouse Log Spring 2016 Dominic Turillo https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/1b571f54006de425af6728622689ffa5.jpg d30dc51ea1a9c2323bb40e4de8d00169 https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/2f84e8af37744948265f2ae6a5ee4da8.jpg 5c18821316da498903355a5a99013e26 PDF Document Document in PDF format Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Turillo Sheds light on Coastal Living By Joe Fuoco, Echo Staff Writer August 11, 1989 “I've seen a lot of ships go aground," he is saying. The view from the edge of the cliff is wide and magnificent. The haze is spreading. It's not fog yet, just a haze. In the far distance, near the horizon a large ship with its sails down is moving slowly, a smaller craft is bouncing in the surf. Domenic Turillo is putting on his glasses to see clearly. "They move back and forth,” he says. “They sway. Years ago, when I was here all the time, it was nothing to get up in the morning and see small craft aground, even smashed, against the rocks." One kind of memory. Domenic has a treasure load of them. He moves about the buildings that comprise the Beavertail Lighthouse and Museum and private dwelling with a quiet sense of ownership, or is it simply familiarity? This was once home to Domenic. It was where he raised his 11 children, where he saw unlucky craft hit the jagged cliffs of this most wonderful piece of Rhode Island coastline, where he painted white the top half of the massive granite lighthouse, and where he watched the changes take place, the kind that would make people like himself, keepers of lighthouses, not only an endangered species, but an obsolete one. He retired before that. It was coming, and he knew it, but that didn't have anything to do with his retirement. Looking trim and sunburned, gently weathered, Domenic is 65, and moves with the agility of a youth. He points out the building where he and his late wife Dorothy raised the children. That was in the '50s and '60s. "That little area was our kitchen," Domenic says, pointing out a small room attaching the larger buildings. And that two story building was our house. Red brick, and whitewashed — we, my assistant and I had to whitewash it every year. That was his house, the other building, now a museum. Others live in the house now, and a pole fence warns that beyond is private — don't go there. There is little maintenance now, Domenic says, and the people who live there live rent-free. It wasn't so in Domenic's day. “It was a regular job,” Domenic says. “Each morning I would put up the colors — the flag — then assign the work for the day. We had an engineer in the engine room — we had to assign maintenance – as I say, paint the buildings, check everything. This was a whole enterprise, so to speak. Some people have a strange idea about lighthouses. I suppose it's understandable. It goes with the romance. You drive by, look over the side of a bridge, see a lighthouse and think there must be some old man all alone there keeping the light.' Well, that's a nice romantic idea. My house, this house, was filled with kids – 11 of them, plus my wife and myself. It was wonderful. The kids were very disciplined and never went near the cliffs. We loved it. The best years of my life were spent here. It was like living on a private estate." It is a mercilessly hot day, but inside the museum section the wind is brisk and even cool. “Always this way,” Domenic says. “Always a breeze here, really a wind. Once, all you heard was the wind and in the fog and in the haze the sound of horns from the buoys. Peaceful and beautiful. That was long before the park system took it over. It's wonderful now too, and because everything except the private quarters is open to the public, the public gets to see inside. Really inside. But the romance is gone." The romance of a lighthouse not invaded by strangers, one home to an expanding family, sending its beam rhythmically across the water, its big horns blasting a guiding way through the darkest of nights. That is the romance that has been sacrificed to automation. Safer, yes. Surer? Maybe. But where is the sense of an almost mystical quality — the shadowy figure turning the big lens to catch the light and send it beaming out? The mystery is gone. The lighthouses that stand and are being preserved are all mechanized. Their beams are fixed; they don't move, don't scan the water and the night. The beacon now pulsates steadily but doesn't rotate. "We had two flashes every 15 seconds," Domenic says, looking up to the top of the building. He is still amazed that it was built in 1856 with blocks of granite so massive it is a wonder how they were lifted. “That lens - what a lens – 350,000 candlepower. Huge. It was a glass prism, and it magnified the light." A seemingly unending spiral staircase winds to the top within the lighthouse. The walls are circular brick, and there is a central pole around which the stairs climb. “That pole,” Domenic says," now has wires going through it to activate the light. But years ago, we had weights down here, and we had to turn those weights. Up above, the big lens sat in a large dish of mercury. And when the light moved, when the lens turned, two beams shot out. What a sight. Those beams along with the big horns, like enormous trumpets, fed by air...you couldn't stand the blast. The buoys would warn us that something was out there, maybe somebody lost, and we had to create the characteristics of the lighthouse. We had to in fact tell them, the lost seafarers, where they were." Each lighthouse was different, each possessed its own personality, a different kind of call, of sound, a different heat of light beams. The color was a characteristic. These unique things were identification marks so that a sailor would know it was Beavertail and not, let's say, the lighthouse on nearby Rose Island. The lighthouse was like a person, each with a different face. Domenic came to them easily, by choice. He was in the Coast Guard during the years 1946 to 1947. He was also in the Navy, in World War II, earlier in 1942. He chose the lighthouse, the one on Rose Island because he was married and was starting a family. He thought it would be a good place for that. After Rose Island, he came to Beavertail. "What was wonderful is that the family was here," he says. “My wife a beautiful woman, oh, she was so beautiful. Do you know men would whistle at her?" He puckers his lips and makes the shape of a whistle. "She died in 1981 of cancer. Then a year later, Lu-Lu died. She was my youngest daughter. She died of heart disease at the age of 15. There are now five sons and five daughters left. Took me a long, long time to get over Lu-Lu. I still cry sometimes." He looks about the grounds, remembers when the wild roses were not there, when there was only one road out, when he always had to have evacuation plans ready, when the great storms came and raised the ocean to the lighthouse and brought down one of the chimneys. "The '38 Hurricane brought back the original lighthouse foundation. Imagine that being exposed. There it is now with a whistle house on it. You hear that horn? Sounds like it's out there in the ocean. It's here at the whistle house. There are so many stories here. Fifty wrecks here, at this place. In Rhode Island there have been as many as 1,200 wrecks recorded, and 50 of those at Beavertail Point." Domenic is not a man who shakes his head at automation. He realizes that a fully automated lighthouse, using a 45,000 candlepower lamp that can be seen for 17 miles is certainly an improvement over the days of using whale oil for the lamps, or even further back in time, an open pitch fire used by the Indians in 1705, but he wonders at all this accuracy. "The oil spill," he says. "Look at that. Here with all our technology, a tanker strikes the rocks." Domenic shakes his head. Inside the museum a small room holds four fish tanks, and one can see a variety of sea life in them — large starfish, sea urchins, spider crabs, large snails. Posters and maps are arranged on the walls. A wooden inshore lobster trap stands next to a metal offshore one, a strong one able to take the currents and the bigger lobsters. A stuffed bass weighing in at 65 pounds and caught on October 22, 1936, is pinned proudly to a wall. The display rooms hold glass cases with old lights from lighthouses, paintings, drawings, records of shipwrecks, a celebration of what is called the Golden Age of lighthouses. A small fireplace stands empty near a mannequin in a chair, an old lighthouse keeper in his uniform. And in a comer hangs a picture of Domenic Turillo as he looked in 1950, high on the cliff, arms akimbo, behind him the inevitable Beavertail Lighthouse. "Once, you couldn't get in here," he says. "There was barbed wire all around. The government owned everything. I'd go down to the edge of the cliffs and fish. Caught a lot of bass here. It was quiet and lonely, peaceful and orderly. You had to be ready every moment for inspections. You never knew when. Those were the days of the white glove inspections. You couldn't touch anything that would soil what you wore, but you know, when the government abandons something it really abandons it, and this lighthouse was nearly lost. Now it belongs to everybody. But, once, in a way, it was mine. I loved it then, and I still love it. This is a place to love." He retired because it was time. The age told him, he says. But he seems ill at ease in retirement. Today, he is a "food and beverage man" at Victoria House restaurant in Providence. "I have to be near the sea," he says. "I was born and raised near the sea. I was born on the waterfront. Raised in Bristol. All the Turillos came from Bristol." And the proof lies in Domenic's hold to the old house at Beavertail Point. He comes here each Thursday to volunteer his services. He spent time fixing it up, painting, and will devote a lot of time, he is sure, to the restoration of the last building, the old fog whistle house where the great hors blasted their position. His daughter Linda Levesque comes to the lighthouse every Wednesday and serves as a guide, for she too possesses the stories, the legends of the lighthouse. She is a lover of the sea, as are all Domenic's children. They were raised near the sea, breathed the salt air, slept at night while their father took turns staying up watching for warning signs, for possible tragedies the old “Devil Sea" can so easily create. Yet, his life here, the happiest times of his life, met the tempest and the trail squarely. Domenic says he went through some pretty rough times, but the best times were here. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dominic Turillo - Echo Newspaper Article Description An account of the resource photo copy of a newspaper article Type The nature or genre of the resource Picture/Photo, Document Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital Image Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 11, 1989 https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/9fb704259dab769a9840d5314e145a47.jpg 92977562b4c95df5b303b9b89ceeeb7e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Joe Bouchard Model Collection Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 32 Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. 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Title A name given to the resource Dutch Island Light model Description An account of the resource Hand built model Type The nature or genre of the resource Physical Object https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/c093b21146cf6d07d48f57c67ea07918.mp4 12de73f6617b7b7f1d262c6861e5631f https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/e5bdfc90126576a14afd41aae3c802fb.png 6dcbafbe367d54d8450831d40d05d7cb https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/be70ddd7dc1bdabb0202622c15907e22.vtt 1e6e3028120bfe267284bd71159e92ba Video Video Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fixed Fresnel Lens Video https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/c893690ca93e6443fc7291f115f3b081.jpg 2a88e95b6215ddedcf12423008edd0c6 Current Exhibit A currently in use wall exhibit at the museum that may consist of text, photo(s) and/or other physical objects Storage Location The current storage location in the Archives or Museum Interactive Room Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1111 Title A name given to the resource Fog Signals at Beavertail Description An account of the resource Storyboard discussing the various Fog Signal devises that have been used at Beavertail over the years. 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Title A name given to the resource Fog Signals at Beavertail Type The nature or genre of the resource Wall Display Description An account of the resource Fog Signals at Beavertail from early days until the present day Interactive Room https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/b4546187f29caae1b63514aa2bd6ddf5.jpg eb80ad415e0a3cec488c3739dcfed718 https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/6b5dc70711fb9b840904b32e87762e7e.jpg 63b55cc7d28faaafdd0dbd13c4288cf6 Current Exhibit A currently in use wall exhibit at the museum that may consist of text, photo(s) and/or other physical objects Storage Location The current storage location in the Archives or Museum Keepers Hall Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1126 Title A name given to the resource Fort Burnside at Beavertail Point World War II Description An account of the resource Storyboard describing the development of the Harbor Defense Command and Fort Burnside at Beavertail and their roles in the defense of Narragansett Bay during World War II Type The nature or genre of the resource Wall Display, Picture/Photo South Wall Tower Hallway https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/2b95bf18dbb312089d8f156d8934468d.jpg 0d1984225d900ca142eb59b8e6da8ce0 Photograph A photograph Storage Location The current storage location in the Archives or Museum Lens Room Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Frances LaVielle Light model 1887 "The Old Woman" model Description An account of the resource Hand built model Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1504 Type The nature or genre of the resource Physical Object https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/d926e7515d76ac0b50a056fb3af16ef4.jpg 626bde1326406a54ef3757c0992fe77a Current Exhibit A currently in use wall exhibit at the museum that may consist of text, photo(s) and/or other physical objects Storage Location The current storage location in the Archives or Museum Lens Room Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1023 Subject The topic of the resource Fresnel Lens Description An account of the resource The lens on display in the center of this room is a fourth-order lens that was in the tower at Beavertail until it was replaced in 1991 by a rotating beacon. The lens can be open to allow visitors to see inside. Touching the glass prisms is prohibited Notes on the Fresnel Lens This type of lens was developed in 1823 by a Frenchman named Augustin Fresnel(pronounced frey - NEL).The arrangement of the prisms bends the light rays thus making the beam more intense and visible further out to sea. Typical lenses in use before the Fresnel lens lost nearly 97 % of the light from a flame, and a flame with a reflector behind it still lost about 83 % of its light.The Fresnel lens was able to capture all but about 17 % of its light.At one time all the lighthouses in America were equipped with a Fresnel lens. The size of a Fresnel lens is designated by order: a 1 st order lens is the largest with an average height of about 12 feet.The 6 th order lens is the smallest in height, about 1.5 feet tall. You may want to invite visitors to observe the height of the light from the lens. Then open the door of the lens and show them the lighted bulb. The magnification is due to the optics of the lens.The larger bulb inside the lens(1000 watts) was used in the tower and is too bright to put on display here because of safety reasons. Therefore, a 20 watt bulb is used for demonstration purposes. Type The nature or genre of the resource Physical Object Title A name given to the resource Fresnel Lens Lens Room lensroom Middle of the Room https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/11af1ab1f1b9c022b6d15ea3bd97b395.jpg 039f18a9df82c9785be0d5308f31bcba Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1012 Subject The topic of the resource "Fresnel Lens" Wall Exhibit Description An account of the resource This wall panel provides the history of the Fresnel lens and its inventor Agustin Jean Fresnel. Type The nature or genre of the resource Wall Display Title A name given to the resource Fresnel Lens Wall Exhibit Lens Room lensroom West Wall https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/bc35c164bc44cd97c147c8bdfc7d4afa.jpg 4f28fdf0fccaa01325a502eec1a43690 https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/cdf951f1ec997bcbcf075e4f859d1368.jpg 186da10d2bf501428dec22ae36abdafa https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/fd839b67d8f9a3d7e80b23760a7334e7.jpg 9f3c152ecf6e0d419364157302a50358 https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/65f4c489482cd2ed89a45dab3c101b17.jpg dae5eb4e6782d1bdd3f849c36543938d https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/12d4490850549502362413ce31a3fbe7.jpg 410c0c029549f2fbf68d6876070d626c https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/df64e9ee8081d1e9b33eeacba6132992.jpg ab74203ae4119995412acf4f776932b2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1722 Title A name given to the resource Loan Agreement for Funck-Heap Lamp Item #1326 Current Exhibit A currently in use wall exhibit at the museum that may consist of text, photo(s) and/or other physical objects Storage Location The current storage location in the Archives or Museum Lens Room Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Funck-Heap Lamp Description An account of the resource The Funck-Heap lamp, introduced in 1892, became the standard lamp used with every 4th order Fresnel Lens in America. A Lamp such as this one probably provided the light source for the Fresnel lens on display in the center of this room before it was electrified in 1932. The Funck-Heap lamp featured a circular wick flame spreading button in the center, which helped maintain a constant flame size and shape. The wick was fed through a screw thread on the wick-carrying tube. When the Conimicut Light in Warwick was electrified in 1960, the Keeper at Conimicut gave this lamp to a local Doctor. It was passed down to the Doctor’s descendants and finally after a chance meeting between a BLMA Board Member and a member of the Reilly family, was loaned to the Beavertail Lighthouse Museum for use as a museum display. This lamp is solid brass and is 15" tall with a 7"diameter base. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived On Loan to the BLMA by the Reilly Family of Warwick RI and Florida Type The nature or genre of the resource Physical Object Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 24, 2024 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1326 Lens Room https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/81dc144dcd75a24e12c9974c0be9dd66.jpg dbcbc256cc2aeb5325684c7bcce2df8e https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/ef98bcefd60872d3f63fad14e019872b.jpg b4ce4902e023482698833cf91438b3ae Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1009 Subject The topic of the resource "Beavertail" Wall Exhibit Description An account of the resource Wall Panel depicting the invention and history of gas lighting in Newport, RI, and at Beavertail Lighthouse. Type The nature or genre of the resource Wall Display Title A name given to the resource Gaslight Wall Panel Lens Room lensroom West Wall https://beavertaillight.org/archives/files/original/1b776a830961e82061e41ff2188e0df5.jpg f5d739052fa2d4918e8f905b266e6635 Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Storage Location The current storage location in the Archives or Museum Interactive Room Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1115 Title A name given to the resource Governor Carr Stained Glass Artwork Description An account of the resource The stained glass artwork created was in memory of the "Governor Carr" ferry that was active from 1927 until 1958.  Artist unknown Type The nature or genre of the resource Wall Display, Picture/Photo Inactive Room Interactive Room South Wall