11x14After being decommissioned as a US Coast Guard lighthouse on the Albemarle Sound where the Roanoke River empties, Emmett Wiggins, a retired navy engineer and tug captain, lifted this structure on an old WWII amphibious landing craft and floated it to his land on Filbert's Creek in Edenton, NC. It was his home until he died and has since been moved again to downtown Edenton awaiting restoration to its original condition as the Roanoke River Lighthouse.
This, along with his homemade dented seaplane that leaned in high grass in his front yard looking out at rusty earth moving equipment sitting on top of anchored barges, was an eyesore to many, but the whole scene gave me the same charge a little boy gets when he climbs into a rickety tree house for the first time.
This, along with his homemade dented seaplane that leaned in high grass in his front yard looking out at rusty earth moving equipment sitting on top of anchored barges, was an eyesore to many, but the whole scene gave me the same charge a little boy gets when he climbs into a rickety tree house for the first time.
