With the resurrection of the Yellow Jeep (it’s a long story), I am four-wheel-drive worthy of hitting the beaches again, and celebrated this weekend with a trip out to see an old friend: Great Point Light.

Did you know that at the relighting ceremony September 8, 1986 (after the lighthouse was rebuilt following the great storm in 1984 that destroyed it), that the town sixth-graders put a time capsule in it that is to be opened next year!?! Reportedly there is a cassette of popular music and a can of Classic Coke (neither of which should be opened, in my opinion).

A plaque inside the tower reads, “Egypt had its pyramids, Nantucket has Great Point.”