Archive for the 'Lighthouse Keepers' Category
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
The Scituate Historical Society is looking for a new Lighthouse Keeper for their Scituate Lighthouse, currently a private aid located at Cedar Point to guide mariners into the entrance of picturesque Scituate Harbor.
The current Lighthouse Keeper is leaving her post this fall after 22-years of service. For an Application or more information, please visit [...]
Categories: Lighthouse Keepers
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
The Tawas Point State Park is looking for vacationing volunteers willing to work as guest Light-keepers for free and pay $275 for rent per week. Guest Lighthouse keepers will live on the second floor of recently renovated Lighthouse keeper’s quarters. This lighthouse vacation retreat includes a modern kitchen, bath, and two [...]
Categories: Lighthouse Keepers, Open House, Parks, Preservation News
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
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., [...]
Categories: Humor, Lighthouse Keepers, Preservation News, Travel
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
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 [...]
Categories: Blog News, Cruises, Haunted Lighthouses, Lighthouse Keepers, Open House, Travel
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Looking for Light-Keeper volunteer work on a rocky island off the coast of Rockport, Massachusetts?
The Thacher Island Association is searching for two volunteer Lighthouse Keepers to help maintain the Twin Lights of Thacher Island, the iconic symbol of Rockport.
Paul St. Germain is offering a one-week apprenticeship program to train two assistant Lighthouse Keepers next [...]
Categories: Humor News, Lighthouse Keepers
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
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 [...]
Categories: Humor News, Lighthouse Keepers, Preservation News
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
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 [...]
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
The Lighthouse Kids continue to raise funds to rescue White Island Lighthouse from storm damage. Recently, they donated $100,000 to rebuild the marine landing ramp that was washed away during the Patriots Day Nor’easter of April 16, 2007.
White Island Lighthouse, located 7-miles offshore from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is exposed to powerful ocean storms. [...]
Categories: Lighthouse Keepers, Preservation News
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
After ten weeks of reviewing 185 applications for the job as Lighthouse Caretakers for Wind Point Lighthouse, the Village Board hired two Lighthouse Lovers who met at a Lighthouse, were later married at a Lighthouse, and now a dream come true, they will live in a Lighthouse.
On 09/13/2007, the Wind Point Village Board appointed [...]
Categories: Lighthouse Keepers, News
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
The Frogster was surfing the digital waterways of the internet and sailed by New England Lighthouses looking for a job as a Lighthouse Keeper. Sorry I said, the only official Lighthouse Keeper in New England has a job at Boston Harbor Lighthouse.
The Frogster left his resume for consideration as a Lighthouse Keeper [...]
Categories: Humor, Lighthouse Keepers
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