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Contents:

• HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON THE MOVE
• GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE MOVE IS PLETE
• GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE MOVE IS PLETE — MV TIM
• HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON MARTHA'S VEYARD MOVED INLAND
• MEET THE BUILR WHO IS MOVG THE HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE
• GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE IS ON THE MOVE – WEBM
• GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON MARTHA'S VEYARD IS BEG MOVED
• MOVG THE GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE
• GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE STORY AIRS WEDNDAY ON ‘NOVA’

HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON THE MOVE

The Gay Head Lighthoe on Martha's Veyard was threatened by years of erosn. Prerly perched Gay Head Lighthoe is on the move Martha’s Veyard.

“The lighthoe is immediate danger of topplg over the edge of the Gay Head Cliffs, a nsequence of a century of erosn and the direct impact of climate change, ” the Natnal Tst for Historic Prervatn’s webse said s listg of the 1854 lighthoe on s 2013 list of the Most Endangered Historic Plac.

Before started movg, the lighthoe was jt 46 feet om the edge of Gay Head Cliffs. “The Gay Head Lighthoe is really one of the inic landmarks that intifi this island.

GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE MOVE IS PLETE

Coast Guard and will still functn as a bean to marers after s move, acrdg to a Gay Head Lighthoe webse operated by a mtee anized to save the historic stcture.

In 1856, Gay Head was one of the first lightho the Uned Stat to receive a Frnel lens, acrdg to the Natnal Tst for Historic Prervatn. On Saturday, the Gay Head Light reached s fal stop on a 129-foot journey back om the se had occupied sce 1844, and which after more than a century of erosn was prerly close to the edge of the cliff. Another challengg nsiratn was the social, enomic, and staable velopment of the Gay Head Lighthoe project.

GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE MOVE IS PLETE — MV TIM

The Gay Head Cliffs and surroundg lands have a sacred anctral and signifint cultural importance to the Wampanoag Tribe. After 2-1/2 days, the Gay Head Lighthoe was succsfully moved a distance of 129 feet away om the erodg cliff and onto s new foundatn, 12 days ahead of schle. The Gay Head Cliffs and surroundg lands, which are owned by the native Wampanoag Tribe, did not experience any adverse damage durg the relotn.

HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON MARTHA'S VEYARD MOVED INLAND

Workers movg the Gay Head Lighthoe, which settled to s new lotn Saturday, May 30, 2015. (Charl Kpa/AP)On Martha's Veyard, the 160-year-old Gay Head Lighthoe has been succsfully moved away om an erodg Saturday afternoon, workers fished movg the lighthoe farther land along steel rails g powerful hydrlic pistons.

Experts believe Gay Head Lighthoe will now be safe for another hundred years. Loted on the sparsely populated, wtern edge of the rort island, Gay Head Light has been a cril waypot for marers sce the peak of the whalg tra the 19th Head Light flash a whe signal on Oct.

MEET THE BUILR WHO IS MOVG THE HISTORIC GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE

"View om unrneath the Gay Head Lighthoe on Martha's Veyard, which pleted s move land Saturday, May 30, 2015.

Chewg a cheap cigar atop an old bulldozer, Jerry Matyiko is at work his office — the stunng, lorful and rapidly erodg cliffs of Gay Head on Martha’s Veyard.

GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE IS ON THE MOVE – WEBM

Matyiko is town to rcue a lol 68-year-old Navy veteran mov stuff — like airport termals and multistory office buildgs — and he has e to the Veyard to save the red brick Gay Head Light built 1856, a scenic attractn and still a functnal bean for sailors. He builds a work of giant steel beams unrneath and sends the stctur down tw rails — travelg on rollers only feet an the Gay Head lighthoe starts movg, will take two or three days to go 134 feet — a statn termed to safeguard s stabily for a mimum of another 150 Matyiko (center), who learned the craft of movg massive objects om his father, took measurements at the 460-ton brick lighthoe. Stt Eisen/Bloomberg via Getty Imag/Bloomberg via Getty ImagThe current Gay Head Light replaced the first one built 1799 and is the only lighthoe the natn wh a history of Native Amerin lighthoe keepers.

A lol group lled Save the Gay Head Lighthoe has so far raised $3 ln and needs another $400, 000 to plete the project. No other twosome has more experience wh brick lightho like Gay agile than those ma of st iron or grane blocks, brick lightho need specialized re, acrdg to Richard Pomroy, project manager who ns his own Massachetts engeerg of Matyiko’s strengths is the abily to change his game plan as ndns change, Pomroy said.

“He has the great abily to go by the seat of his pants if he has to, ” he Matyiko of Expert Hoe Movers of Maryland (right) nducted prep work at Gay Head Light. The procs n take days or even step at Gay Head: get unr the lighthoe wh a first set of steel H beams. He moved Cape Hatteras Light North Carola 1999, and Sankaty Head Lighthoe on Nantucket on the job se at Gay Head, Matyiko moved the first giant girr last Friday.

GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE ON MARTHA'S VEYARD IS BEG MOVED

Began to move the Gay Head Lighthoe back om the lotn has occupied for more than a century. Click here for the Save the Gay Head Light mtee webm. Thursday morng, wh the inic Gay Head Lighthoe the background, a crowd that clud Island rints, visors, and reporters gathered on the platform that will be s fal statn after s three day journey.

MOVG THE GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE

Project lears plan to open the Gay Head Lighthoe to the public by July, when they said there would be a ceremony to celebrate the project. Gay Head Light is supported by a grid of I-beams unr two 24-ch layers of grane that unrp the lighthoe.

GAY HEAD LIGHTHOE STORY AIRS WEDNDAY ON ‘NOVA’

Unlike many other lightho, Gay Head Light is not obsolete.

For more than 200 years, the Gay Head Lighthoe has provid a wele bean to marers the waters off the wt end of Martha’s Veyard.

Gay Head Light was tablished 1799, and nsisted of a keeper’s dwellg and an octagonal tower, which guid marers past Devil’s Bridge, a dangero rock ledge that extends out to the northwt om the cliffs, and prents a hazard at the wt entrance to Veyard Sound. In 1796, Peleg Coff of Nantucket wrote to his ngrsman Washgton, requtg a lighthoe at Gay Head for “the nvenience and tert of Nantucket. In 1852, a Lighthoe Board report listed Gay Head Light as one of the most important lightho on the Atlantic Coast due to the amount of mare traffic that passed beneath s gaze.