2012

All to often we hear of the ugly side of America. The part that is imperfect. The images in this collection show an America with all it's beauty and a people Free and Proud.

2013

4.15.13 Boston Strong

Paris

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Normandy

Lighthouses

The sheer beauty of the elegant, lonely lighthouse along our shores and their unspoiled, scenic natural settings stirs many an emotion within us. The lighthouse have guided mariners for centuries warning of dangers and providing for the safest course.

Nobska Light

Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Cape Neddick Light (Nubble Light)

York, Maine

Seguin Island Light

Off Popham Beach, Maine

West Quoddy Head Light

Lubec, Maine

Marshall Point

Port Clyde, Maine

Beavertail Light

Jamestown, RI

Ned's Point

Located in Mattapoisett, MA

Burnt Island Light

Boothbay Harbor, Maine

Boston Light

Little Brewster Island, Boston, Massachusetts

Portland Head Light

Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Five Mile Point Light (New Haven Harbor Light)

New Haven, CT

Cape Neddick Light (Nubble Light)

Cape Neddick, York, Maine

Monhegan Light

Located on Monhegan Island in Maine

Bug Light

Also called Duxbury Pier Light. Located in Plymouth, MA

Castle Hill Light

Newport, RI

Owl's Head Light

Rockland, Maine

Graves and Boston Lights

Boston, Massachusetts

Plymouth Light Station (Gurnet Light)

Gurnet Point, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Portland Head Light

Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Boston Light and Graves Light

Boston, Massachusetts

Pond Island Light

Off Popham Beach, Maine

Portland Breakwater Lighthouse

Known as Bug Light. Located in South Portland, Maine

Plymouth Light Station (Gurnet Light)

Gurnet Point, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Peggy's Cove Light

St. Margaret's Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada

St. Peters Harbour Lighthouse

Prince Edward Island, Canada

Bug Light (Duxbury Pier Light)

Plymouth, Massachusetts

Wood Islands Lighthouse

Prince Edward Island, Canada

Plymouth Light Station (Gurnet Light)

Gurnet Point, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Plymouth Light Station (Gurnet Light)

Gurnet Point, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Lighthouse at Mystic Seaport

Mystic, CT

Seguin Island Light

Of Georgetown and Phippsburg Maine

Pemaquid Point Light

Bristol, Maine

Pemaquid Point Light

Bristol, Maine

Portland Breakwater Light

South Portland, Maine

Scituate Light

Scituate, Massachusetts

Spring Point Light with Portland Head behind. South Portland and Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Ram Island Ledge Light - Casco Bay, Maine

Doubling Point Light

Arrowsic Island, Maine

Portland Head Light

Seguin Island Light

People

Under Construction.

Father and Daughter

Young Love

A Washington DC Firemen

Plymouth Harbor

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THE PIER AT PLYMOUTH

Sunrise over the Plymouth Airport

Rocky Nook

Manomet Point

The Shoe Industry in Pictures

Uppers

Uppers hanging awaiting their turn to be lasted at Alden Shoe Company in Middleboro, MA.

Howard & Foster Shoe Factory in Brockton, MA

Upper Floors was the home of the Victory Shoe Company.

Grover Shoe Factory

Brockton, MA

George E. Keith Factory in Middleboro, MA

United Shoe Machinery Factory in Beverly, MA

Emerson Shoe Factory in Rockland, MA

J.T. Wood Shoe Factory in Ware, MA

Advertisement of the W.L. Douglas Shoe Co.

George E. Keith's Walk-Over Factories in Brockton, MA

Rockport, Texas

Rockport, Texas is a delightful little town on the Gulf coast noted as the hummingbird capital of Texas. All hummingbirds seem to pass through the town on their annual migration to Mexico.

Shrimp Boats

Coast of Maine

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The Bounty in Boothbay Harbor

Portland Skyline

Shoes and Shoemaking

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Tackmaking

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The Original Tack Machine

Tack Machine Knives

Acid and Lime Baths

Pickling the tack plate.

"Chopping" Tack Plate

Cutting tack plate into strips. The width of the cut plate has a direct relationship to the length of the tack or nail.

Battery of Tack Machines

Perkins Tack Machines with the "Gatling Gun" feed used by the W.W. Cross Company.

Making Heel Nails at the W.W. Cross Company

Large Perkins' machine for making Cut Heel Nails for the Shoe Industry. Location is the W.W. Cross Company in Jaffrey, NH.

Wafios Wire Nail Machines

Wire nail machines at the W.W. Cross Company in Jaffrey, NH.

Nailmaker adjusting a Wafios Wire Nail making machine.

Perkins' Tack Making Machine

Picture from an old Perkins catalog showing their standard tack making machine. Machine remaining in operation today are little changed from this picture, Originally the machines were made in four sizes capable of making anything from ultra small shoe lasting tacks to long cut nails.