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Good photographs of lighthouse keeper Joel W. Munson seem to have disappeared. This one, which appears to have been copied from an old newspaper and is on display at the Warrenton Visitor’s Center at Lighthouse Park in Warrenton, Oregon, may be the best known or only photograph of him.
Joel Munson was a man of many talents, one of which was the making of violins. One of the violins that he made came from a piece of hardwood which he found several feet below the surface while digging a drain in a swamp near the lighthouse. Strangely, no hardwood grew anywhere near lighthouse and this segment must have drifted ashore years before and had been covered by debris. It was later written that Mr. Munson, “with his skillful hands and fertile brain he was able to bring sweet music from the very bowels of the earth with which to charm the senses and make glad the heart.” (Photo courtesy Clatsop County Historical Society.)
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