The Ukulele Alphabet: Lighthouse by Sierra Ferrell

Letter L, Week 2
“Lighthouse” by Sierra Ferrell

This video was filmed at the Sandy Hook Lighthouse at Fort Hancock in Gateway National Recreation Area — one of my husband’s top three lighthouses!¹

First lit on June 11, 1764, this stalwart sentinel at the tip of the Navesink Highlands of New Jersey is the oldest working lighthouse in the United States, and she’s a beaut.

Having grown up further inland amongst rivers, cricks, and mountain streams, I didn’t have a lighthouse obsession like Dan did. But now we have an “I BRAKE FOR LIGHTHOUSES” sticker (designed by me, cough cough) on our car roof box, so I suppose you can guess where my interests lie.

And though we’ve seen lighthouses at all four corners of the country, from Quoddy in Maine to Point San Vicente in Palos Verdes to Cape Florida Light near Miami to West Point Lighthouse in Seattle’s Discovery Park, where Temple of the Dog filmed the “Hunger Strike” video…

… well, you still come back home to the ones you know best. And also because our travel schedule didn’t have any lighthouses on the docket in time for me to perform this song anywhere else!

If you’re visiting New Jersey in October and you also love lighthouses, maybe time your trip to do the Lighthouse Challenge of New Jersey and visit 11 of this state’s historic lights over the course of two days.

Listen to the original version of “Lighthouse”:

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1. I’m making an educated guess here that his three are Pemaquid Point, Sandy Hook, and Twin Lights just up the hill from SH in the Atlantic Highlands. Sandy Hook may be my fourth favorite after Pemaquid, Twin Lights, and Bug Light in Portland, Maine. Honorable mention to Tuckerton Light, which FELL INTO THE SEA. ↩︎