By Sue Clark on Sep 12, 2007 in Lighthouse Keeper | Comments Off 
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Added September 14:
The two new caretakers at Wind Point Lighthouse are Michael and Susan Arts of Racine, Wisconsin. The couple met at a lighthouse in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and were married at a lighthouse on Sullivan’s island, South Carolina.
It’s down to two possible candidates for the Wind Point Lighthouse caretaker according to the Journal Times Online. The hiring committee, after interviewing a dozen of the top applicants for the job, selected just two for a second round of interviews. The committee is comprised of members of the Friends of Wind Point Lighthouse, village officials and members of the community. They received 159 applications for the job. A decision by them is expected to be made later this week.
By Sue Clark on Sep 10, 2007 in Lighthouse Keeper | Comments Off Print This Post
The Boothbay (Maine) Register had a nice story about the restoration effort at the Cuckolds Island Lighthouse recently, with the highlight of the story coming from Nancy Conley, former Coast Guard wife who served at the station in 1965 and 1966. The event was a trip out to the island to view the progress being made on rebuilding the house, which was demolished in the late 1970s.
Maine Senator Susan Collins was on hand to greet the visitors before they left for the island from the Carousel Marina in Boothbay Harbor. Part of the purpose of the trip was to be on hand as the Coast Guard installed a new lens from Sweden in the tower.
By Sue Clark on Sep 10, 2007 in Other | Comments Off Print This Post
Come and enjoy the “Lights Along the Shore†Lighthouse Festival happening along the Lighthouse Route and Evangeline Trail from Friday, Sept. 14 to Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007. It’s an opportunity to learn more about the seafaring heritage and history behind the lighthouses in Southwest Nova Scotia. One will have an opportunity to view many lighthouses and experience the atmosphere surrounding these historical structures.
By Sue Clark on Sep 9, 2007 in For Sale | 1 Comment Print This Post
Approval has been given to the trust created to purchase Belle Toute Lighthouse, in East Sussex, UK, to go ahead with plans to turn the decrepit, but expensive, lighthouse into a bed and breakfast. The lighthouse went up for sale this year, with an asking price of $1,733,724USD.
According to the story from the BBC News, the Eastbourne Borough Council gave the go ahead to the planning application to the Belle Toute Lighthouse Preservation Trust, who now has to raise the funds necessary to purchase and renovate the 175 year old light, perched at the top of the Seven Sisters Chalk Cliff overlooking the English Channel. The councillors backed the plan, even though the planning officers recommended against it due to the lack of visitor parking. The plan was approved sunject to a new access road being created at the site.
By Sue Clark on Sep 8, 2007 in For Sale | 1 Comment Print This Post
“Latea,” whose winning bid of $200,000 for the Fourteen Foot Bank Lighthouse was accepted Friday by the General Services Administration (GSA) has been revealed as a 53 year old Redwood City, California attorney with an apparent penchant for collecting lighthouses. Michael L. Gabriel already had bought the Bloody Point Lighthouse (pictured at left) in the Chesapeake Bay, south of Kent Island, MD, on Dec. 7, 2006. He paid $100,000 for that structure that had exploded and was gutted by fire in 1960. That lighthouse is already being restored as a summer residence for Gabriel, as will Fourteen Foot Bank.
By Sue Clark on Sep 7, 2007 in Opinion, Threatened | 3 Comments Print This Post
A lighthouse that has survived machine gun fire, air strafings, raids by French privateers (they damaged the lantern and stole the keepers’ beds!) and storms is now threatened by the same erosion that many lighthouses are now facing. Orfordness Lighthouse, where a light has stood since 1634, is now only 50 yards from the beach. Accelerated erosion and coastal changes over the past decade have brought it to a near critical mass, and may necessitate it being demolished, according to a story from the Evening Star.
