By Sue Clark on Oct 21, 2009 in The Light Side | 0 Comments
After much renovation, the decommissioned Belle Tout Lighthouse near Beachy Head, UK, is set to open as a hotel. And in honor of that, they are selling a nude calendar of the men that built it…The
Belle Tout Builder Boys Charity Calendar 2010.
By Sue Clark on Oct 16, 2009 in The Light Side | 1 Comment
In Two Harbors, Minnesota, along the north shore off mighty Lake Superior, stood a 100 foot tall white pine locally known as the Honking Tree. It sat all alone along Highway 61, known as the Two Harbors Expressway, from the time the road was built in the 1960s.
By Sue Clark on Aug 29, 2009 in The Light Side | 1 Comment
As most of the world knows, we’ve lost long-time Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy to brain cancer. What few might know is that he was a lighthouse enthusiast.
By Sue Clark on Jul 22, 2009 in The Light Side | 5 Comments
The Port of Edmonds Yacht Club, in Washington, has labored long and hard to rebuild their yacht club. The location was chosen, designs were approved, all permits were in place, and ground on this addition to the community was broken late last month. But wait, it’s supposed to be nautical. And look like a lighthouse.
By Sue Clark on Jul 17, 2009 in The Light Side | 1 Comment
I’m not a golfer, nor do I like watching it on the tube. But this year’s British Open Championship is held in Scotland, at the Turnberry Lighthouse. Golf was invented in Scotland, you know, and the lighthouse keepers in Scotland passed their free time by swinging the old woods and irons. Many lighthouses in the country have at least a rudimentary golf course, or the remains of one.
By Sue Clark on Jun 30, 2009 in The Light Side | 1 Comment
So let’s say that you, along with fourteen others, have paid your money (a year in advance) to a tour organizer for a seven lighthouse dream trip to the Orkney Islands, and are anticipating it with all the enthusiasm of a dedicated pharologist. But then the unthinkable happens, and six months later the organizer backs out. What do you do?
By Sue Clark on Jun 5, 2009 in The Light Side | 2 Comments
When we think of lighthouses in art, our minds naturally tend to photographs and paintings. But rarely do we ever think of statues and art and lighthouses in the same breath. After all, lighthouses
are statues of a sort.
By Sue Clark on Jun 2, 2009 in The Light Side | 0 Comments
Are you a former lighthouse keeper from Cape Lookout Lighthouse? Or a former member of one of the three life saving stations on the cape? Or a descendant of one? Or served at the site as a Coast Guardsman? If so you might want to plan a visit to a celebration honoring these people at Cape Lookout National Seashore (NC) this fall.
By Sue Clark on May 31, 2009 in The Light Side | 0 Comments
Once again, lighthouses provide a comprehensive learning experience for students. This time at Brendel Elementary School in Grand Blanc, Michigan. Combining history, geography, science and old fashioned creativity, fourth graders used everything from Pringles cans to toothpicks to build their favorite Michigan lighthouse.
By Sue Clark on May 12, 2009 in The Light Side | 2 Comments
Why, yes it does. Even though Iowa is landlocked, and better noted for its cornfields, their citizens shouldn’t be denied a lighthouse. And even though they have one, a mostly decorative lighthouse at Weed’s Park in Muscatine, IA, it’s been unlit for quite some time. That is, until its dimness inspired an Eagle Scout to be to take it on.
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Once again, lighthouses provide a comprehensive learning experience for students. This time at Brendel Elementary School in Grand Blanc, Michigan. Combining history, geography, science and old fashioned creativity, fourth graders used everything from Pringles cans to toothpicks to build their favorite Michigan lighthouse.
