News, Opinions and Commentary on Lighthouses Around the World
Current Lighthouse Bids: Borden Flats - $55,000 (Sold); Sharp's Island - $80,000 (Sold) Duluth Harbor - ($11,000) .
Current ArticleBy Sue Clark on Jun 20, 2007 in Volunteer 
Print This Post
From the Virginian Pilot comes news that the Park Service is looking for volunteer staff for the summer to guide tourists through the oil house and to look at the 214 stairs of the Bodie Island Lighthouse. Visitors still can’t climb to the tower due to ongoing reconstruction.
Read more from the site.
Keep up with Lighthouse News. Get articles by 
Email or in a 
Reader.
For the most gorgeous photos of lighthouses from Maine to Hawaii please visit The Lighthouse Guy.
Purchase anything from prints to coffee mugs to mousepads with your favorite photo on it. And better yet, the prices are great. If you can't be there, this is the next best thing.
Fourth Order Clamshell Style Fresnel
Offers over $100K USD considered. For more information please contact tim@chancebrothers.com Or visit the site at www.chancebrothers.com
Man Must Tear Down Lighthouse
Ooops. Looks like building a lighthouse without proper permits is wrong. The Washington Post has an article about a gentleman who owns an island in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, who has had a suit filed against him by the State of Maryland.Continued...
Failing Of The Light
The National Lighthouse Museum, on the St. George waterfront, was a vibrant jewel of preservation and a cornerstone of the community’s renaissance. But it never really got off the drawing board. Now the museum is at the brink of vanishing from the Staten island scene for good.Continued...
Faux Lighthouse Shines Bright Again
A lighthouse built in the center of a traffic circle in downtown Brigantine, NJ, has been restored and lit. Thanks to the efforts (and muscle) of city councilman Ralph Aversa, the faux lighthouse, once used as the police station and then as a museum, sports a new coat of paint (white and Lighthouse Red) and a revolving light magnified with a mirror.Continued...
Lighthouse Golf Course
Now here is a factoid I didn’t know. On Fair Isle, a birdwatcher’s paradise 25 miles south of Shetland Island, Scotland, sits two lighthouses at opposite ends of the island. To while away the hours in the 1960s, the lighthouse keepers built a golf course (this is Scotland, birthplace of the game) near the South Lighthouse.Continued...
Lighthouses In A Storm
The Keeper’s Blog has recently published a short video from the top of the St. Augustine Lighthouse during Tropical Storm Fay. It was taken before the storm got really bad, but still shows what it must have been like for the keepers in the past.Continued...
Lighthouse Helps Save Father and Son
A 12 year old severely autistic boy and his father were swept 8 miles out to sea from Ponce de Leon Inlet, and are crediting the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse with helping them to stay focused while treading water in the shark infested seas for fifteen hours.Continued...
Flickr Lighthouse Photos
