How does one end up as a lighthouse researcher?

[darkxshade]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/...se.found.ap/index.html

WELLFLEET, Massachusetts (AP) -- Local historians for decades thought the 30-foot tall lighthouse that once overlooked Wellfleet Harbor had been taken down and destroyed in 1925.


Historians say the lighthouse at Point Montara in California used to overlook a Massachusetts harbor.

1 of 2 Turns out it had just been moved to the California coast.

The fate of the cast-iron tower was uncovered last year by lighthouse researchers and reported by Colleen MacNeney in this month's edition of Lighthouse Digest.

MacNeney told the Cape Cod Times in Wednesday's edition it was her most exciting discovery.

Wellfleet historian Helen Purcell says the discovery of the lighthouse at Point Montara at the southern end of San Francisco Bay was a genuine shock.

MacNeney says she discovered correspondence that proved the lighthouse, first erected in 1881, had been moved by the Coast Guard from Wellfleet to Yerba Buena, California, and eventually to Point Montara.

There is no known documentation explaining how it was moved across the country, MacNeney said.

But Jim Walker, chairman of the Cape Cod chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation, speculates that because it is metal, it could have been disassembled bolt by bolt, with the pieces then transported by rail.

The lighthouse is still used as a navigational aid and a hostel.

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Oh, and Monthly publication of Lighthouse Digest? How is there a market for this? :Q


I also feel like I need to explain why I would be in the article, the title of the link on the main site is: "Lost" lighthouse found on opposite coast. I thought it was about the TV show lost.

 

[alkemyst]

there is a market for everything if you work out populations.

 

[ggnl]

Step One: Peg leg...

 

[marvdmartian]

You might be shocked at how many people spend their leisure (vacation) time going to see our nation's lighthouses. There are some that are quite historical, and there's quite a following for them. Cape Hattaras, in NC, is one of the more famous ones. It was relocated by the government a number of years ago (fairly recently), due to the erosion in the area where it had originally been located, and to prevent it's damage in case the base collapsed. Really cool to watch it being moved!

My folks visited a whole bunch of lighthouses while vacationing the country, after my Dad retired, before he passed away. He took many a photograph of lighthouses for his enjoyment, and they collected miniature replicas of their favorites. Not only are there quite a few beautiful lighthouses out there, they're pretty good exercise if you can climb to the top of them!

 

[SAWYER]

"Lighthouse Digest"


LOL who would subscribe to that?

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: marvdmartian
You might be shocked at how many people spend their leisure (vacation) time going to see our nation's lighthouses. There are some that are quite historical, and there's quite a following for them. Cape Hattaras, in NC, is one of the more famous ones. It was relocated by the government a number of years ago (fairly recently), due to the erosion in the area where it had originally been located, and to prevent it's damage in case the base collapsed. Really cool to watch it being moved!

My folks visited a whole bunch of lighthouses while vacationing the country, after my Dad retired, before he passed away. He took many a photograph of lighthouses for his enjoyment, and they collected miniature replicas of their favorites. Not only are there quite a few beautiful lighthouses out there, they're pretty good exercise if you can climb to the top of them!

My wife loves lighthouses. We've visited practically every single one on the west coast. It's just an interest to her, but some people take them VERY seriously. I don't really see it as a "market" but more of the results of a grassroots effort to preserve them.
Most lighthouses are the oldest and most historic buildings in their area, and are quite beautiful and unique. Plus irreplaceable.
So it's a good thing that a good number of people take them seriously, otherwise most lighthouses would have been lost a few decades ago.

 

[Scarpozzi]

1. Have an obsession with phallic symbols
2. Have a desire to see lights attached to them
3. Have lacking social skills and no sex life

I've heard that a lot of the lighthouse researches hang out at male stripclubs afterhours.

 

[ballmode]

I would love to go see one

 

[2Xtreme21]

I know my mom would love it. Our entire house is full of lighthouse decorations.