Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/28

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Subject: [Leica] Fort Revere
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Thu Feb 28 10:54:02 2008
References: <47C6D23A.1060405@hemenway.com> <47C6D949.6030307@tele2.fr> <47C701D8.80901@hemenway.com>

Sorry, the first photo should have been:

<http://ed-thelen.org/J-McGrath/ftduvall2.jpg>

Jim

Jim Hemenway wrote:

> Hi Philippe:
> 
> It was the only place where I shot any photos that day... because of the 
> light.
> 
> The island was evidently used to raise hogs a long time ago and in the 
> 1920's it became Fort Duvall, a coastal artillery battery... I've seen 
> photos of some very large guns which were there:
> <http://ed-thelen.org/J-McGrath/FTDuvall.jpg>
> 
> When I was a teenager in the late '50s, one could drive by, but not 
> enter the island. It was still named Little Hog Island and had become 
> the site of a Nike missile defense base:
> <http://ed-thelen.org/J-McGrath/FTDuvall.jpg>
> for the tracking and control of 30 Nike Ajax Hercules missiles at a 
> companion site across Hingham Bay in Weymouth.
> 
> Now it is named Spinnaker Island and is a gated condominium complex 
> built on the remains of the Nike base. One can still drive by, but not 
> enter the island. :-(
> 
> Jim
> 
> P.S. The companion missile site, several miles away, has become a nice 
> park in which to walk
> 
> 
> 
> Philippe AMARD wrote:
> 
>> Very pleasant light Jim.
>>
>> What's the isaland in the background in the first photo? It looks like 
>> a place worht a stroll, am I mistaken?
>>
>> Thanks for the series
>> phx


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