Searching for a extreme dream home with a 360-degree panoramic open view of Chesapeake Bay? The Real Estate Agent for the federal government opened the online auction on Sep. 26, 2007 and is looking for bidders to bid on Point No Point Lighthouse!
Who knows, you could be the lucky winner with a $10,000 [...]
After 30 years of leasing the Keeper’s house to Lighthouse Caretakers, Jamestown Administrator Bruce Keiser has recommended terminating the town’s License of Beavertail Lighthouse. In recent months, the Coast Guard, the Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association, and the Beavertail State Park Advisory Committee have been concerned about using the Lighthouse as affordable housing [...]
On October 13, 2007, Sandy Neck Lighthouse was dedicated on the 150th anniversary of the construction of the Lighthouse and the 75th anniversary of its decommissioning to celebrate the restored Lighthouse.
The Headless Lighthouse became a traditional Lighthouse after the construction of the new cast-iron Lantern Room was completed on June 18 and the glass [...]
Lighthouse News with comic relief for a good cause:
A Superhero Spiderman spun a 3,5oo-mile long web from Manhatten to Leasowe Common, England and plunged off Leasowe Lighthouse to raise money for the British Stroke Association.
Chris Wignall, a superhero volunteer, was one of 100 people who rappelled down the Lighthouse by a rope not a [...]
Since 1996, the following humorous story has been a urban legend circulating around the web. Ironically, the story was part of a Presidential speech ten years earlier!
“It reminds me of a favorite little story of mine about a career naval officer who finally got his four stripes, became a captain, and then was [...]
(Photo credit: Rob Benchley/
The Nantucket Independent)
The Blazing Star Lighthouse was lowered the final few inches onto the new foundation at 1:13 pm yesterday.
The only original(1) Lighthouse on Nantucket has been relocated 405-feet northwest inland to a safe sanctuary next to the 5th hole of Sankaty Head Golf Club. If you missed Rob Benchley’s [...]
Two Lighthouses located on Martha’s Vineyard are receiving vital restorations. Martha’s Vineyard was made famous in the 1800s by the rich whaling captains who sailed from Edgartown Harbor guided by the Edgartown Lighthouse. In recent memory, the island became famous after the Movie Jaws, the two Kennedy accidents, Belushi’s overdose, and the island [...]
Sue Reynolds, a retired North Hampton school teacher, is the inspirational guiding Light of the Lighthouse Kids, whose goal is restoring and preserving White Island Lighthouse! The Lighthouse Kids have raised $300,000 to repair the Light Station and a new marine landing ramp to continue the restoration and to repair the damage caused [...]
The dream of being a modern Lighthouse Keeper can be realized by purchasing a extreme home with a 360-degree view of the bay and a Night Light visible to 22 nautical miles! Smith Point Lighthouse, built 110 years ago to mark the shoals off Smith Point in the Chesapeake Bay, was purchased by [...]
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A deeply moving Love Song left me charged for the digital life to seek some Diamonds in the sky not realizing I should have been Meme-ing my own business!
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