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HGTV Green Home 2010: July 4 Clue
Hi all … and Happy Independence Day!
Today, to celebrate this important holiday, I’ve decided to post another photo-based clue. Note about the number 99: it’s not a road of any sort, but a head count.
So here we go … See if you can tell me how these three images relate to the the 2010 location.
Photo credits: spakattacks, blmurch.
Im in agreement with some of you but i think showmegreen is right on the mark
I think most of us have concluded it is on the east coast somewhere, but I sure hope whomever gets it likes alot of snow smile.
CATHY MAINE(IAC)= I knew that you’d come up with Something Good!! Thank God! and CINDY= good info. So far, I’m counting on the research that GLENN NYC did too, about the Irish Immigrants (something that LYNN COGGIN blogged)– but where can we find that info.?
My wrist started hurting last night— the “99 Number” has been drivin’ me nuts! I “googled” the Number 99 and Head Count 99 for both Mass. and Maine, but didn’t come up with anything significant.
Except— a big celebration in Maine, unveiling the New (99 DDG) Navy Ship and US Coast Guard Ship— but that still has nothing to do with a head count.
Diana
CATHY MAINE(IAC)= Thanks for all of the information—- I just KNOW THAT IT WILL BE BOSTON!!! It has to be—-(I hope so) Especially that you mentioned earlier how Lindra Woodrum ( HGTV) was working on a project recently at the Harbor View Resort Property. It's all making sense.
I will be checking those websites that you gave the links out to later tonight— I did glance at Mainehomedesigns.com really quick though— real nice country homes, beautiful!
Now— I NEVER knew that there was originally subdivisions of the US Coast Guard. THIS could LEAD us to another clue— I bet the (the Lighthouse Service division). I'm going out now—- will do some "googling" on this later tonight!
Have a nice day everyone
Diana
CATHY MAINE (IAC)= By the way, you came up with some fascinating info. with your ancestry— that’s unbelievable, and how you even traced some ancestors to Florida, too.
Just now, “Ancestry.Com” popped up— and I just now typed in my grandmother’s name— and it gave the correct county and year when and where she died. One of these days, I’m going to do this. I was going to do it 2 years ago– because my friend was going to Salt Lake City on vacation and asked me to go with her and her family—- but then that never panned out.
Went to see the Fireworks last night— it was fun
Diana
does headcount need to be human head count? What about the posting of 99 reasons in the 99 Restaurant chains on the walls?
I pay a subscription to ancestry when I am doing research. There are many, many sites out there to do research online. That story about my ancestors haunting the lighthouse was featured on SCIFI on that Most Haunted show…LOL
The rocks along the coast of Cohasset, Massachusetts, claimed many ships and many lives in the early part of the 19th century. Between 1830 and 1840, 40 ships sank in this treacherous area. Perhaps the greatest tragedy came shortly before a lighthouse was completed when the steamer St. John ran aground in an October, 1849 storm and 99 people were lost, mostly Irish immigrants. The Lighthouse Service constructed an iron skeleton tower on the Minot’s Ledge between 1847 and 1850. The engineers believed the open columns would allow the sea to pass below without resistance
There were 99 passengers on the Mayflower. Maine's House of Representatives.. 99 members of the 123rd Maine House, 99 (57 Democrats, 41 Republicans and 1 Unenrolled member) were reelected. In 2000, there were 99 people in Secretary, MD listed as disabled. And Mary did say the 99 referred to a headcount.
I find it interesting that the first photo of the Horseshoe Crab was taken at Anna Maria Island in Florida, and the Coast Guard plaque was taken on a road trip through Kentucky? Wassup??
the St. John fared only slightly better, losing at least 99 passengers when it smashed on the rocks near Cohasset, Mass. Hundreds came to see the wreck, including Henry David Thoreau. “I sought many marble feet and matted heads as the cloths were raised,” he wrote, “and one livid, swollen and mangled body of a drowned girl — who probably had intended to go out to [domestic] service in some American family.”
Just another tidbit: Interstate 95 (I-95) is the main highway on the East Coast of the United States, paralleling the Atlantic Ocean from Maine to Florida and serving some of the most populated urban areas in the country, including Boston!!
On Sunday October 7, 1849 the Irish brig St. John was shipwrecked off the coast of Massachusetts near Cohasset. The ship was a “famine ship” loaded with emigrants from Galway, Ireland who were escaping the devastation of the potato famine, heading to America and, hopefully, a new life. This ship wreck, the worst in Cohasset’s history, would have an impact on families on both sides of the Atlantic. And, in a strange twist, the wreck would also affect one of Concord’s native sons, Henry David Thoreau, and the story of the St. John would become one of his most gripping essays.
As the brig entered Massachusetts Bay that Sunday morning it encountered a severe coastal storm. The ship’s master, Captain Martin Oliver, dropped anchor two and a half miles off the coast, hoping to ride out the storm. But the St. John’s anchors failed to hold and the ship was washed onto a submerged, rocky ledge- known locally as the Grampus Rock- with devastating results.
Stuck between the rocks and the pounding surf, the St. John’s hull was quickly torn apart, with terror-stricken emigrants being washed into the sea. In a panic, the crew began to cut away masts and sails in a desperate attempt to lighten the ship, but their work was useless; the St. John stayed on the rocks. Within an hour the hull was in pieces, and parts of the ship — as well as the bodies of her passengers — started to wash up on the beaches of Cohasset.
In all, 99 persons died when the St. John went down. There were some survivors, including Captian Oliver, but these numbered only about 20. Many of the victims were from the counties of Galway and Clare and the loss of life affected many families. In fact, whole families were wiped out; emigrant Patrick McSweeney was drowned while trying to save his wife and nine children; none survived.
Two days later on October 9, Henry Thoreau and Ellery Channing left Concord for a trip to Cape Cod. This was to be Thoreau’s first visit to the Cape. Having been “accustomed to…excursions to the Ponds within Concord” Thoreau now decided to “extend [his] excursions to the sea-shore.”
Show Me, great version on the “99 bottles of beer” song!! And I love your tall tale on the 99 Horseshoe Crabs… I am sure that they didn’t have the proper documentation so the Coast Guard must love Horseshoe Crabs to give them directions to the I-95…Ok, I am on to do my research…And, a personal note… I am so happy that it did not rain yesterday….the day was beautiful at the beach, lots of swimming and then later watching the fireworks coming from ships out in the ocean…BEAUTIFUL!! We are so lucky to live here in Florida….This is a wonderful place to live!! I hope that the Coffeys move to Port St. Lucie and enjoy the GH2009!!! They will not regret it!! They are very lucky!! I mean entering only 5 times and winning…they are so lucky!! And it just goes to show you that when it is suppose to happen for you…then it does…no matter how many times you enter or if you enter by mail or online!! This will be my 11th year and I am still excited and motivated to continue…I hope the GH2010 has an hydroponic, organic garden!! Love life by living green!!
CATHY MAINE(IAC)= OK, Thank You— this all makes Sense now, and gives the “Number 99″ real and factual Historical signicance. (At first, I was equating it with the Immigrants who arrived in Ellis Island in N.Y., and I was trying to make sense out of, OK, what does the number of people arriving have to do with this?) LOL
THANKS—- I’m hoping for the Cohasset or Quincy Area.
There’s a town also called “Hull”— Is that why it was named Hull?
Diana
CATHY MAINE(IAC)= That’s Unbelievable about being on the SCI FI channel. You have a little “Fame” in your family, Really! Did you tape it to save that episode? I hope so— you can pass that down in your family!!!!
Diana
I researched the “Cohasset” area yesterday—it looks very nice.
Heres a link:
http://www.townofcohasset.org/about_map_full.html
I like these:
http://www.cohassetrealestate.com/homes/hfr.html
http://www.cohassetrealestate.com/homes/hfr.html
If you can’t click on these, go to the main website to see some homes—-
Diana
Hull is a town in Plymouth county
RENEE LOVES GREEN= I’m so glad that you like Ft. Lauderdale. I lived there for a long time, but have been in Ft.Myers/ and Tampa for the past 10 years now.
Is there going to be a Party??? I hope so. My cousin called me yesterday, she just moved to West Palm Beach in a new house, and she’s wondering when I’m going to come and visit. I told her about a Possible Party, etc… we’ll have to keep watching the blog for any postings.
Florida is very nice, you can’t beat the weather. It is the warmest state in all of the country. I may, though, for business reasons, either live/work (Temporarily) in New York, Boston, or California for a while. I won’t be doing this until January, though. I have to check some things out. If fate leads me to Boston or Mass.—- trust me— I’ll be keeping “tabs” on the building of the Green Home—- yeah!!!!
Diana
I put the SciFi link up on our family group site as well as other documents regarding ancestors. One of my direct line ancestor’s brother wrote the first five books in the Bible for King James. His name is Lancelot Andrewes.
I feel like this is an extension of the Dream Home research I did regarding Massachusetts. LOL
translated…not wrote…sorry
Oh Maryland seashore. I hope
Oh my!! I must apologize for my less than serious nature of my guess of the 99 bottles of beer! Without the new clues, it seemed like a useful guess!! However, if the clue does relate to the 99 lives that were lost in that shipwreck off of Cohasset, I have sadness with that clue!! Minot’s Ledge Light is a lighthouse located on Minot’s Ledge, one mile offshore of the towns of Cohasset and Scituate, to the south of Boston Harbor, in the US state of Massachusetts!! With the comments produced by Lynn Coggin, GlennNYC & Show Me I am confident that the next Gream Home will be built in Massachusetts!! Yes!!! But where? According to Wikipedia, “Cohasset is located on the “corner” of the South Shore, where greater Boston Harbor ends and Massachusetts Bay begins. The shore is rocky, with many small ledges and rocks lying offshore. Cohasset Cove and The Gulf provide a long portion of the border with Scituate, while Straits Pond divides Hull from the town on the northwest. Near the center of the coast lies Little Harbor, a large inlet divided from the ocean by Beach Island. Several other brooks and rivers run through the town. A large portion of the southwestern part of town is occupied by the Wompatuck State Park, formerly the Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot Annex, and the Whitney & Thayer Woods Reservation. There is also a bird sanctuary, as well as a large park (Wheelwright Park) near Little Harbor. There are three beaches along the bay, and the Cohasset Yacht Club and a public boat launch in Cohasset Harbor.”
Another source of information regarding the photo of the Horseshoe Crab is that there has been spawning of the Atlantic horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, in Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts!! There are a number of Chatham-managed town landings located on Pleasant Bay which offer boat launches and some smaller swimming beaches!
The highway 95 sign throws me…. I-95 makes its way around metro Boston, passing through Dedham, Needham, and Wellesley?
So, where oh where will my Gream Home be built? Where or where can it be? I will make my guess:
Maybe, Heritage Estates!! “This is a high-quality subdivision with lots having sold for $450,000 to $600,000! The entire subdivision encompasses an 18.27-acre tract of land, averaging 1.3 acres per lot. The subdivision was designed with two cul-de-sacs and has direct access to the George M Ingram Park across Beechwood Street. The three existing homes are of a shingle-style design and are in keeping with the character of the homes in the area.”
“Cohasset is a tight knit waterfront community known for ties to the sea, with its significant boating population. The community is also one of the most picturesque communities in Massachusetts with beautiful beaches, including renowned Sandy Beach overlooking the Atlantic Ocean!!”
(www.globusz.com/ebooks/CapeCod/00000012.htm)
I can’t seem to post the link to an accounting of the shipwreck. Will try again (www.globusz.com/ebooks/CapeCod/00000012.htm)
I would like to enter the the net home giveaway.
First coast guard (sort of?)
The Cohasset Maritime Institute is getting back to its roots – and the town’s – with a project to restore an old, wooden lifesaving boat. The 26-foot surfboat, which is “a big, fat bathtub meant to hold a lot of people, and very stable,” said project organizer Jack Buckley, came from the Hull Lifesaving Museum.
more stories like this”It’s symbolic of the lifesaving that took place in this area,” Buckley said of the boat. “In 1807, Cohasset had the first official lifesaving station, on a place called Pleasant Beach between Rocky and Sandy beaches. And Hull became the most famous station.”
CATHY/MAINE(IAC)= Great Research!!! I think that this is Definitely leading us to the Cohasset or Quincy area. Something is leading me to the town of Hull though. I’m getting so excited!!! This is a great area, I think that it’s 25 miles from Boston!!!!
I got your link=
http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/CapeCod/00000012.htm
maybe this will work
Diana
CATHY MAINE (IAC)= That is so Impressive that you went way back to when the King James Version was written!!! I know exactly what you meant. I know all about this. On a college trip;- I went to Germany and France–the purpose was the history of the “making” of the “King James Version”.— this is unbelievable.
One of these days— I’ll do my own family. The only thing that I know about, is that my grandfather (from Italy) was in the Summer Olympics in California for bicycle riding. This is what brought him to America. He didn’t win though. But maybe that explains why I love bicycle riding so much—it’s in the genes, LOL LOL LOL
Would you want to share your website? I’d Love to see it— only if you want to, though
My E-Mail is: dmbianc@yahoo.com, if you don’t want to “post it” on the WWW
Diana
Diana: No, didn’t see Silence of the Lambs II–number one was enough… besides I couldn’t imagine anyone else besides Jodie Foster in the role.
Cathy/Maine(iac): I think you’re right on the money!
ZZ= It was awful— I mean, I had Nightmares after it. It was supposedly filmed in Italy. (It really wasn’t a continuation of Part 1- because of Jodie Foster. That’s why they shifted it to Italy, I think.)
I really don’t like movies like those. What’s really scary— is that there probably are sicko’s out there that really are cannibal’s— that is so gross!!!
It’s still safe to go out on my patio at night—–
Diana
Look up the Hull Lifesaving Museum (lifesavingmuseum.org) which appears to be an early coast guard of sorts too.
Diana – emailed you….let’s stay in touch!
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico!
For all you lovers of Maine, check out (mainehomedesign.com) for a look at gorgeous!!! Gotta love it.
Really confused now… Thought Maryland… Thought Maine… even thought Connecticut… Could it be far, far away from all that? Michigan???
HGTV Superfan hopeful chiming in!
I think the 2010 HGTV home will be on the East Coast of Florida, along the coastline.
The United States Coast Guard is this nation’s oldest and its premier maritime agency. The history of the Service is very complicated because it is the amalgamation of five Federal agencies. These agencies, the Revenue Cutter Service, the Lighthouse Service, the Steamboat Inspection Service, the Bureau of Navigation, and the Lifesaving Service, were originally independent, but had overlapping authorities and were shuffled around the government. They sometimes received new names, and they were all finally united under the umbrella of the Coast Guard.
Although the Revenue Cutter Vigilant was the first cutter to be launched records concerning when she actually entered service were lost in the fire at the Treasury Department in 1833. Tradition has it that the cutter Massachusetts, launched in July 1791, was the first to actually enter service as a commissioned vessel of the U.S. government.
So the last clues only point to an East Coast HGTV Green Home. And in a state that starts with an M.
Massachusetts was launched on 15 July 1791. She was built at Newburyport, Massachusetts. Her first master was John Foster Williams. She was sold on 9 October 1792.
I am still trying to figure out what the #99 has to do with the Green Home. A head count? So is it 99 in one state, or 33 in 3 states? And if so, what am I counting……..people?
W. – see earlier posts about 99 Irish immigrants
The exact name of the Domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC): GREEN CONCEPTS LED, LLC
Entity Type: Domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC)
Identification Number: 000999787
Date of Organization in Massachusetts: 04/16/2009
The exact name of the Domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC): GREEN ENERGY WORKS LLC
Entity Type: Domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC)
Identification Number: 264612693
Date of Organization in Massachusetts: 04/07/2009
The exact name of the Foreign Limited Liability Company (LLC): GREEN LOG LLC
Entity Type: Foreign Limited Liability Company (LLC)
Identification Number: 001005556
Date of Registration in Massachusetts: 06/04/2009
P.S. Has any one of the Green Home bloggers called in to volunteer to help preserve those very special creatures, the 'horseshoe crabs?' I'm really thinking about it, especially since 'Show Me' thinks they just might give out some inside information on the next Green Home location!
I now know all I ever want or need to know about the spawning patterns and mating habits of the horseshoe crab. So in light of that, I thought it fitting to offer every Green Home blogger a unique challenge :
A web post by the Massachusetts Audubon Society provides an opportunity for the winner of the 2010 Green Home to help ensure the survival of the horseshoe crab. For those interested, please read the following:
“The Atlantic Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) has been crawling ashore to mate on full moon nights for about 350 million years, and Mass Audubon is looking to ensure this ancient rite of spring continues.”
“In Massachusetts, horseshoe crabs are harvested to be used as bait for the eel and conch fisheries, and their blood is the source of a chemical used to test medical devices and injectable drugs for toxins.”
“In collaboration with the University of Rhode Island, the National Park Service, the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, and others, Mass Audubon is beginning a three year survey of spawning horseshoe crabs. At a number of sites around the Cape and Southeastern Massachusetts, scientists and volunteers will be counting the number of adult spawning horseshoe crabs on and around the new and full moons at high tide.”
“We need your help! Please volunteer today to help preserve these very special creatures.”
(Maybe if one of the Green Home bloggers calls up to volunteer, they can get some inside information on the next Green Home location!)
The most noted spawning grounds for the Horseshoe Crab or King Crab is on the shores of Delaware Bay or on Long Island New York.
The state of Maryland extends to the coase just south of Delaware. The Baltimore Harbor Light (historic names include Baltimore Harbor Lighthouse and Baltimore Light), is a privately owned caisson lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. First lit in 1908, it sits at the mouth of the Magothy River, marking the channel which leads northwest to the opening of the Patapsco River, which then leads into the Baltimore harbor. At the time of its construction, it was the world’s tallest caisson lighthouse. In June 2006, Baltimore Light was sold at auction to private owners by the General Services Administration for $260,000, the COAST GUARD maintains rights to operate a light on the structure.
Of course I-95 goes through Maryland.
Just a technical point, Marie Miller (and my opinion)—keep in mind that in her search for appropriate clue images, our devious Senior Editor MARY will post photos intended to REPRESENT or SUGGEST A LINK to the item or location being pictured. WHERE the photo was taken is often irrelevant. This is what trips up so many of the Green Home bloggers in their research, and has them hopping from state to state depending solely on where the photo was taken. The Lighthouse clue, for example, almost certainly DOES NOT mean MARY wants us to start looking around in the Baltimore, MD area.
Since the four “first” photos most certainly pertain to Massachusetts, THAT is the area where subsequent photo images, regardless of where they are taken, should be leading us to search.
“Bear” in mind that MARY is not going to make the search so easy for us that she will post a photo clue from or even near the ACTUAL item or location. (Unless of course, after my comment, she does so just to pull a fast one!)
As I’ve said before, hold on folks, it’s going to be a bumpy ride….
Lighthouses, beaches (with or without horseshoe crabs), the Coast Guard, and I95: unravel those links as they relate to MA, and each other, and you’ll at least be CLOSER to the answer.
Show Me: OMG…you have been hanging around Coop so long, you are starting to sound like him…and, much to my chagrin, you are absolutely correct…why would Mary make it that easy for us? Where the photos were taken must be irrelevant, but the subsequent photo images do play a strong clue as to the identity of the area!! I was certainly trying to play them all together to no avail!! Anyway, thank you for your expert advice as I do appreciate your ability to apprehend the inner nature of things and/or seeing intuitively!!! Thank you!!
I’m going to stick to my guess of ‘Cohasset!!’ This beautiful waterfront community ties to the sea, and is one of the most picturesque communities in Massachusetts with its beautiful beaches, including renowned Sandy Beach overlooking the Atlantic Ocean! This is the perfect setting for my Breezy Coastal Lighthouse House Plan!!
Show Me, are you saying don’t look around MD? But look around Mass? We know Mary is very tricky. Even if she gave out the initials BM, we could still be looking at Baltimore, MD or Boston, Ma. I don’t believe Mary would reference a clue to 99 lives lost. Too sad. So, what is the 99 “head count”? You have hinted at “bears” before, That leads me straight back to Michigan. But the horseshoe crab has me stumped. Oooh, just thought of a great song…next post.
Diana: Aren’t you afraid to sit out on your patio at night….the vampires might get you. I tend to get nightmares from real situations, not the kind Hollywood makes up to scare us. Sleep tight tonight knowing it’s all make believe.
Seems we now have two contenders for the Superfan contest. HGTVMAN and Renee Pralta. Good Luck to both of you.