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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 3693638, member: 591"] And the answers - 1 - As discussed the Wannamaker Organ is in Philadelphia. In Macy's in Center City, to be exact. Several of you knew about the organ and shopping. The Great Auditorium is in Ocean Grove, NJ - an old Methodist meeting town down the Jersey shore - huge wooden building used in the summer. The organ is top 30 in size and is played for services and recitals during the summer. Organ Stop Pizza is in Mesa, Arizona. It features a large theatre organ with much of the working parts exposed. Wonderful place to visit. 2 - Peter Richard Conte is the Macy's Grand Court Organist - i.e. the head organist playing the Wannamaker Organ, since 1989. He is also principal organist at Longwood Gardens, which has another magnificent instrument. 3 - Waquot, SVC and Big (belatedly) recognize Michigan has the most lighthouses. 4 - Pinot and Big know West Quoddy Head Lighthouse is at the eastern most point in the US 5 - East Quoddy Head, which is in Canada incidentally, is difficult to access because of the Bay of Fundy tides. The long walkway, including stairs for climbing, are often underwater. Big and Pinot on this. 6 - Sharps Island Light is built in the water. It was hit by an ice floe that tilted it, it leans like the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It is stable in the "tilt", but it is no longer an active light. 7 - The last civilian keeper was on Little Brewster Island in Boston Harbor - the Boston Harbor Light. 8 - SVC knows that Springwood is in Hyde Park, NY, the home of FDR. Spiegel Grove, in Fremont, Ohio was the home of Rutherford B. Hayes. Lindenwald is in Kinderhook, NY - the home of Martin Van Buren. 9 - Waquoit and SVC know of Isaac Asimov's love of puns. 10 - Felonius and SVC know about Slithy Toves. Asimov also wrote a short story based on Jaberwockey. 11 - SVC gets the Boojum as well. The discoverer was a fan of Lewis Carroll and The Hunting of the Snark. 12 - Felonius is correct - Jean Shepherd. 13 - He also knows where the HMS Victory is located, as does Ed. Big knows about the painting, which I have not seen. Apparently they are making it seaworthy again. Not sure why, it looked great in the specially designed dry dock. 14 - Walter von der Vogelweide - tricky to pronounce in German because "V" is said "F" and "W" is said "V". He was a German poet from the middle-ages. 15 - Skeets identified Long Beach Island (NJ) correctly. Bonus - JBariqua got them all - St Peters (NJ), Manhattan College and Illinois State in Normal Illinois. One more anecdote - the reason we went to Manhattan was we attended Holdsclaw's "home" trip - which was a 2 day tourney there. Just wanted to see her in person. [/QUOTE]

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