Message in a Bottle at Seguin Island Lighthouse
Somewhere in a far far away galaxy of infinite Meme Magnitude, Kimberly “Arthouis” Barker from Blogsylvania just east of Oz, has Meme’d me to paint a Message in a Bottle Beach message for Mimi’s Wet & Wild Meme Marathon.
You may find my spirit or my LOST bottle floating around Seguin Island Lighthouse where sea rumors speak of a Mimi-like ghost who plays the piano as mermaids entice lost mariners offshore (1)!
For a Map Location of the Lighthouse and my LOST bottle, please visit the Google Map of Seguin Island Lighthouse
Someday, you may see my LOST bottle floating in the ocean of Mimi’s Wet & Wild Bottle Blogosphere! Anyone can participate in the Message in a Bottle Meme including everyone in my Blogroll. Instructions and the blank bottle image are posted at the Message in a Bottle links listed above.
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footnotes:
(1) According to Lighthouse Legend, the ghost of a Light-keeper’s wife plays the same ghostly tune on her phantom piano which can be heard on the Kennebec River during foggy nights. In 1850, a Lighthouse Keeper bought his lonely bored depressed wife a piano to brighten her mood on the isolated island. Unfortunately, his newlywed wife played the same song over and over again for hours until her husband was driven insane. After destroying the piano, the Light-keeper murdered his wife with an axe and committed suicide. Perhaps, her husband was hearing “The Honeymoon was the Killer” tune?
According to folklore, Seguin Island Light Station is also haunted by the first Light-keeper who died penniless on the island. The ghost of Light-keeper John Polereczky, called the “Old Captain,” is seen climbing the staircase of the tower to tend the light.
After the Lighthouse was automated, William O. Thomson reported that the “Old Captain” ghost told the moving crew, “Don’t take the furniture. Please leave my home alone!” The boat loaded with the Keeper’s furniture mysteriously or coincidentally sank on the following day!
In the nearby haunted legends of Maine, John Greenleaf Whittier wrote a poem about a phantom ship that passes by Seguin Island Lighthouse. To read his poem, please visit “The Dead Ship of Harpswell,” 1866.
Lighthouse Background:
In 1795, President George Washington authorized the first offshore Lighthouse to mark Seguin Island and help navigation approaching the Kennebec River or the Sheepscot River.
On March 29, 1796, Major John Polereczky was appointed Light-keeper of the new 30-feet high wood Lighthouse. The Light exhibited a Fixed White Light illuminated by 6 oil lamps and reflectors 165-feet above sea level.
The current 53-foot high stone Lighthouse was built in 1857 and fitted with a First-order Fresnel Lens for the safety of shipping. Seguin Island Lighthouse is currently an Active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation exhibiting a Fixed White Light illuminated by a First-order Fresnel Lens 180-feet above sea level to a visible range of 18 nautical miles.
On November 15, 1985, the Coast Guard de-manned and decommissioned the Light. A Coast Guard crew was ready to remove the 9-foot high Fresnel lens until Pat Moffatt, a Lobsterman, told the crew they needed an act of Congress. Thankfully, the Fresnel gem valued at $8 million, is still the eye of this ghostly Lighthouse Treasure!
The Friends of Seguin Island, Inc. was established in 1986 and the Preservation group received a 10 year lease from the Coast Guard on April 11, 1989. The Coast Guard transferred Seguin Island Light Station to the group under he Maine Lights Program in February 1998.
Since 1990, summer Caretakers have maintained the buildings and property, and greet visitors from Memorial Day through Labor Day. In 1993, Susie Wren established a museum which opened on August 31, 1993.
Seguin Island Lighthouse is best seen by boat or visiting the island. A distant view of the Lighthouse from Popham Beach requires binoculars. For Lighthouse Lovers into Lighthouse Lore and Piano Playing Ghost Hunters, Lighthouses cruises are provided by the Maine Maritime Museum and Long Reach Cruises.
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March 2nd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
I just knew your bottle would be excellent :=P
and a poem too…. Miss MoneyPenny…..
I’m glad the Mimi GHOST didn’t throw you in her dungeon
that piano story is dreadful….
I’m glad I don’t play the piano !!
ps I bet you do
the worn out meme victim’s last blog post..Lucky Winner!!!!
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Hello Kimberly “Arthouis” Barker, the worn out meme victim!
You discovered my secret code name, Miss Moneypenny!
Did Speedcat Bond 0007 whisper this info to you on his secret Oompa Loompa mission?
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.(O.o)
(”)_(”) Fortunately, I escaped into my Bag of Tricks in the Rabbit Hole before the Ghost of Mimi had the chance to find me!
P.S. I never finished tapping the ivories… that would haunt everyone!
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
What a treat! !!! This is excellent beyond words. It was a little spooky reading about the ghost piano player (have you noticed that I am constantly playing the piano in my sidebar? Has that escaped your attention?? …..hmmm….) So what to do with you?
Shall I throw you in the dungeon with the rest? Of course not, lassie! That dreadful place is only for meme dodgers. And you certainly are no such thing. I love your imagination and creativity. This is soooo cool.
I can’t wait to get this “beached” and/or floating (whichever the case may be) at Message In a Bottle. EXCELLENT.
Thank you so much for taking the time and also for the award via Colin’s site. I will display it proudly. I feel a bit more like a pencil skirted mermaid now instead of that dreadful Queen everyone’s afraid of.
Sigh.
You’ll find me mournfully playing a tune all the day and night at Mimi Writes, driving everyone bonkers in the blogosphere. Bwaaahhaaahhaaa…..
AWESOME.
Oh. I said that already.
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March 2nd, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Your message bottle is now afloat in the vast blogosphere ocean. You are Message In a Bottle #144
Feel free to toss in a bottle whenever you feel the urge to send a message. The blog ocean is always open. You never know what might wash ashore.
Message In a Bottle #144
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March 2nd, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Hi Mimi,
You caught my piano pun with a humorous heart!
Everyone is afraid of the dreadful Queen? — maybe, we need to visit your spooky dungeon to see what tales of horror lurk beneath the castle?
A pencil skirted mermaid piano player may be a great idea for your Message In A Bottle Blog site?
Thank you for beaching or floating my message with your complimentary review!
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:52 am
Ahoy Ensign DD! It’s the captain here. I wanted to see what I look like in your linky love sidebar. Keeping my fingers crossed. Beaming back now … ahhhhhhhhhh!
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March 3rd, 2008 at 12:57 am
Hi Captain Bloke,
The Beacon Beams up your name and link onto the USS Sidebar Ship after your comment has been approved by Captain DD of the HMSS Under-the-Cover Secret Blog Ops!
Ensign DD in the Comment Communication Tower signing off!
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:05 am
I love your bottle (no pun intended) and found the lighthouse legends to be quite fascinating. Are there still sightings of the captain who died penniless and whose furniture sank? Sounds like this would be a great place to go visit one of these days if I find myself up north.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 1:05 am
yes a bluebird told me….
and I heard that your birthday came and went…..
ohhhh kayyyyy…where’s the cake….
cake crumbs?
ok I’ll settle for a lolly bag then…
Happy hippity hoppity birthday to you….
AND MY PRESENT….
an internet artwork
title….. E sharp squared
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the worn out meme victim’s last blog post..Lucky Winner!!!!
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:44 am
Hi Linda,
If the current Lighthouse Caretakers have seen the Old Captain ghost, reports are local or the Caretakers are silent!
Seguin island Lighthouse is a great place to visit but we didn’t see or hear the phantom piano player or the specter of the Old Captain!
Are you joining our Night owl club?
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:50 am
Hi Kimberly “Arthouis” Barker, the worn out meme victim,
Was the Bluebird called Speedy Smurf?
My birthday was so secret, I missed the party, too
Did you borrow the Pound Sign Logo from the private jet of SpeedyCat Airlines for your internet artwork?
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Birthday Cake!!!
Aww Miss Penny Sandollar, I did not know … Happy belated circle the sun day. This year took longer, you know.
That lighthouse story is quite morbid, and gives me the willies!! So much so, I almost went into Nellie Olsen convulsions. (same thing happens when Mum bans me from the ribbon candy. Ohh the infamy.
Wonderful Mimi Memmeee Message in a bottle. I see there is a hidden message only 0007’s can decipher. MESSAGE RECEIVED (I will be off to capture ULB & the 8 million dollarine Opti grab lenses with the help of Q).
I think Arthouis ate the last chunk … drats!
Big hug for Dolphins - SpeedyCat Moonshaker
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March 4th, 2008 at 12:30 am
Hi 0007 SpeedyCat Moonshaker!
I stopped celebrating my Circle the Sun Day many Moon Shakers ago!
You can imagine my shock
when Kimberly “Artchipel ” Barker 
created her first(?) cryptic crossword with a secret pound sign symbol art and secret birthdays!
Speaking of willies, I barely survive my convulsions of hearing Willie Nelson sing “On The Road Again” (must be because I am a water creature not Willie Nellie Roadkill) !
Miss MP Sandollar will be tickled pink
if 0007 completes his mission to recover the ULB since DD is L.O.S.T in the MMMIAB!
March 4th, 2008 at 12:32 am
yes and no DD …
and I just realised it wasn’t your birthday…it was ms Q’s (whoever she may be)…. it was above your 007 alias at 007’s place…
I didn’t know that was a pound sign…I thought it was a sharp sign or a number sign…
the worn out meme victim’s last blog post..Lucky Winner!!!!
March 4th, 2008 at 1:22 am
Hello Kimberly “Arthouis” Barker, the worn out meme victim!
And, Ms Q never invited us to her Birthday Bash?
In the Cryptic culture of British 0007’s PCs,
The “#” sign is sometimes called “pound sign” in non-sterling countries, possibly because UK-produced document files often included a character which displayed and printed the intended pound sign as “#” on non-UK equipment.
The PC UK keyboard layout has the “£” symbol above the 3 number key, where an American keyboard has the number sign (”#”).
Speaking of cryptic symbols, isn’t the E sharp symbolized as E#? Or do I need some more piano lessons from Mimi?
If so, E sharp squared may look like this:
E# E# E#
E# E# E#
E# E# E#
This cryptic art can be decoded as EP (P for Pound Symbol) which means the Enigmatic Pun (Fun) of Double-D Debbie Dolphin!
March 4th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Whooooaahhhh!!!!!! That mystic eye ball keeps winking at me …. I must dig the cursor in the lash once more. Muskrat Susie, Muskrat Sam, all these comments, make me wonder where I am, at the lighthouse …. Debbie’s Lighthouse!!
Remember when the Captain’s moustache fell off? That’s when I realized that Q had foiled the pursuers … again!! When will the Earth arrive at dock # (pound) 10?
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000007’s last blog post..The Traveling Loin Cloth
March 5th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Hi 000007,
Captain DD’s Lighthouse Log
Stardate: -315174.95
Where no man has gone before, Tennille used her Mustache Muskrat Magic potion on the Captain’s moustache to clean his French tickler!
Daryl Dragon’s moustache fell off again when he heard “Hamster Love” on Stardate: -347847.79
Hamster, hamster by candle light.
Do it in a casserole is doing it right.
When they’re in season, they’re pretty pleasin’.
Hamster sandwich, hamster and cheese.
Hamster sandwiches with mayoneeze,
are delicious, and so nutritious.
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Earth will arrive at Dock # Pound 10 on Stardate 202173.4 when the Moon is in the Seventh House and MoonShaker 00007 guides the planets and the love of Muskrat Susie will steer the stars!
In your comment collection at the Blue Planet of SpeedCat Smurf, Inspector Gadgetcat and Miss Moneypenny HMSS have posted comment # Pounds 3g78klmnop45-=9 and 9g44qrstu54-=9!
March 5th, 2008 at 4:52 am
ROFL DD
you and 007 are way our of my league
I finally worked out the squared thingy (only took me two hours)
that blinking eye kept throwing me off….
I’m not going to ask where you found it as I’m scared you will answer me in code …are you and Speedy of the loin cloth friends of Mork ??
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March 5th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Nanu, nanu Kim of Laketrees Meme Murals,
You are not afraid to ask, are you?
I discovered the E# Squared thingy in my mind’s eye!
Speaking of Cerebral Cryptic Codes located in my mind’s eye, the E# Squared thingy was created by my m-PFC and dl-PFC encoded region of my CPU.
The breakdown and lowdown of the Cerebral Cryptic Codes:
CPU = Carbon-based Processing Unit aka our brains!
m-PFC = medial prefrontal cortex aka our Executive Function and Creative thought
dl-PFC = dorsolateral prefrontal cortex aka our Editorial Voice
In the Cerebral Canvas of our minds, we paint words, art, etc. using our m-PFC and we edit our words using our dl-PFC!
Nanu, Nanu (my hands are on my head) my Orkan friend!
March 6th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
DD
methinks you were a nuclear scientist in another life
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March 6th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Hi Miss Murals at laketress,
Have you been meditating on my past life readings?
March 9th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I’m so confused.
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March 9th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Hi Mimi,
And, I am so L.O.S.T.!
Are you confused by our comical cryptic comments?
Debbie Dolphin’s last blog post..Bodie Island Lighthouse Restoration Funding is Slashed Again
March 13th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
They are comical indeed. Your blog comments are entertaining in themselves! I’ll have to check out the two links you just left me in the comment on my blog. I should have warned you that your name would show up in Monday Mimisms. I found a tag I hadn’t done from Patti…it traced back to Linda….then traced back to you….or was it Linda to Patti to you or the other way around? I’m not sure. I usually stop at 2-3 blogerations ago.
I didn’t even realize you were Miss MoneyPenny and 007 is Speedy?
LOL. You crack me up.
Carry on with your dolphin self………I’ll be back. I like your lighthouse vibe.
Mimi Lenox’s last blog post..Billy Blanks Is My Friend
March 13th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Hi Mimi,
Without warning, all secret surprises are the best!
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March 14th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
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