Recently, Dirk Kempthorne, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, approved the National Park Service’s recommendation to transfer ownership of Whaleback Lighthouse to the American Lighthouse Foundation, the key New England volunteer organization responsible for saving and preserving twenty Lighthouse Treasures.
The 50-foot high granite Lighthouse actively guards the entrance to the Piscataqua River and marks the approach [...]
Gansett Cruises has scheduled 8 narrated Historic Lighthouse Cruises for Coastweeks, the Celebration of Rhode Island Coast.
View Rose Island Light, Newport Harbor Light, Lime Rock Light, Castle Hill Light, and Beavertail Lighthouse from the M/V Gansett for a 90-minute cruise of Newport Harbor and the East Passage of Narragansett Bay.
A Lighthouse cruise is the [...]
For two centuries, Chatham Lighthouse, located on the tip of the “elbow” of Cape Cod, has protected mariners navigating around one of New England’s most treacherous coastal shoals. The town of Chatham is celebrating the Bicentennial of Chatham Lighthouse with exhibits at the town hall and library during the summer.
The active lighthouse [...]
Recently, the Detroit News published a news story about visiting the 124 Lighthouses in Michigan as fun, easy, and inexpensive to visit.
According to Terry Pepper, the executive director of the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association, many lighthouse visitors “are struck by the beauty, history and sheer isolation of these maritime sentinels. They tend to be [...]
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Bob Chaplin has added a new page to Lighthouse Landscaping by carving a Lighthouse out of his dead tree! After delimbing his dead tree, the wooden pole was notched to look like brickwork and his 34-foot tall Tree Beacon was painted to look like a small replica of Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.
Bob’s Backyard Beacon [...]
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Calling any Bond agent in need of a secret sea fort with £4 million ($7.88 million) in spare change. Since a Portsmouth County Court judge has refused to evict a 42-year-old Indian businessman, the new owner may need MI6 secret skills to evict the current owner, Harmesh Pooni!
According to the news report, [...]
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 [...]
After receiving injuries on the property of Saugerties Lighthouse, Police Officer Sydney Mills has filed a civil suit against the Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy for failing to maintain the half mile nature trail leading to the Lighthouse.
According to the news report, Officer Mills fell on the Lighthouse trail on Feb 25, 2007 and “sustained severe [...]
For several months, a British Lighthouse has been shining a Light on alternative energy! South Gare Lighthouse is the world’s first Lighthouse to be powered by a clean environmentally-friendly Hydrogen Fuel Cell (1). The Hydrogen Fuel Cell produces electricity to power a 45-watt high-intensity LED beaming a Light visible to range of 22 [...]