Photo Credit: USCG Photo
While I am on shore leave to recover from the change of weather bug that is going around, Bob Trapani, a New England Lighthouse Preservationist, has written a excellent story about the Coast Guard Cutters breaking the ice on the Kennebec River.
During the spring thaw, heavy rains, rapid snow-melt and dangerous river […]
Can’t afford to restore a government rundown Lighthouse?
Have enough dough to buy this private Lighthouse owned by Charles and Nancy Entenmann (1)?
Listed at $3.295 million, this secret New York Lighthouse has been on the market since October 2007. Their dream house was built in 2005 on 1.15 acres with an attached Lighthouse that […]
Spring into Connecticut to visit beautiful Lighthouse Point Park and Five Mile Point Lighthouse, named for its distance from downtown New Haven. During the roaring 20’s, the park was the field of dreams for Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. Roger Dodger may find his dream haven here to dodge the Fraternity Boys Investigators […]
In the Under-the-Cover business of Bondgate 0007, Debbie Dolphin was mysteriously retagged with the Make-a-Wish Meme….
Since my secret fins have been exposed by Speedy Bondcat 0007, comical comment posts and Memes are now appearing on the desk of my secret sister, Miss Moneypenny unless Debbie Dolphin can weave some Meme Magic within a Lighthouse post!
Hopefully, […]
After serving 39 years at Nantucket Shoals, Nantucket Lightship LV-112 has been bounced around New England and New York exchanging ownership seven times like a Yankee privateer ship escaping a British sea hunt (2).
In 1936, the British government paid $300,956 to build the largest American Lightship after their SS Olympic White Star liner sank the […]
We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog for the following update:
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All Bloggers tagged or not are invited to build the Galaxy MK655 for a Big Bang out of a new Link Life!
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Photo credit: Tsumabukis
For Lighthouse Globetrotters who are not afraid of heights, Yenoshima (or Eno Shima) island near Mount Fuji could be the Lighthouse vacation of a lifetime.
Climb the 197-foot high round steel skeletal tower to the large circular observation deck for viewing the sunset behind Mount Fuji with 360° panoramic views of the surrounding scenery […]
Bodie Island Lighthouse and the National Parks Service were the Pork Ration victims of budget cuts in the 3,565 page $555 billion omnibus spending bill for Fiscal Year 2008 approved on Dec 26, 2007.
The $3 million appropriation, sponsored by Congressman David Price (D-NC) for restoring Bodie Island Light, was axed by a Senate-House conference […]
In another strange twist of irony for historical Lighthouse preservation, Beavertail Lighthouse, the third colonial Lighthouse built in our nation located on a breathtaking natural scenic point park, has lost the Resident Caretakers due to the phantom poisoning of Lead Paint and a low cost housing dispute between several government organizations.
Robert W. Sutton Jr., […]
Somewhere in a far far away galaxy of infinite Meme Magnitude, Kimberly “Arthouis” Barker from Blogsylvania just east of Oz, has Meme’d me to paint a Message in a Bottle Beach message for Mimi’s Wet & Wild Meme Marathon.
You may find my spirit or my LOST bottle floating around Seguin Island Lighthouse where […]