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Pensacola Lighthouse Gift
Shown here is Jon Hill (l), Executive Director of the Pensacola Lighthouse and Museum, and Dianne Levi, Founder of the Pensacola Lighthouse Association, presenting a framed print of the lighthouse to Capt. Edwin Stanton (USCG Ret.) this past January 11, 2019 during the 160th anniversary celebration of the lighthouse. (Photo by Gordon H. Levi.)
Utah Faux
This beautiful facsimile lighthouse is located at the Toads Fun Zone and Golf Center in Ogden, Utah. It’s nice to see that lighthouses are promoted in a state so far from the oceans and the Great Lakes. (Photo by Debra Baldwin.)
Jeremiah Pelican
“Pelicans in Paradise” was a community arts fundraising project in the Pensacola area of Florida that was organized by the Pensacola News Journal. The idea was based on similar such past programs such as Cows on Parade in Chicago, Lighthouses on Parade in Maine, and similar programs elsewhere around the nation. Sponsors purchased the 5- foot-tall fiberglass pelicans that weigh 70 pounds each and then had a local artist paint each one with a different theme. Jeremiah Pelican was named after Jeremiah Ingraham, the first lighthouse keeper of the Pensacola Lighthouse. The pelican is painted wearing a lighthouse keeper’s uniform with real Lighthouse Service buttons embedded in the coat. On one wing is painted the 1824 Pensacola Light tower and on the other is painted the current 1859 tower. There are currently 70 pelicans on display in Pensacola, Florida. Jeremiah Pelican landed at Pensacola Lighthouse in 2009. (Photo by Gordon Levi.)
Snowmobiles at Crisp Point
Many times in good weather, Crisp Point Lighthouse in Paradise, Michigan is not the easiest lighthouse to get to, but these snowmobilers had no trouble finding their way there this past February. They got an even bigger delight to find Rick Brockway there who opened the tower for them to climb. (Photo by Rick Brockway, Crisp Point Light Historical Society.)
Portland “Head Light”
Many years ago, while visiting Maine’s Portland Head Light, Dean Rathbun Sr. thought that “Head Light” was a strange term for a lighthouse until his wife explained it to him. One thing led to another, and 35 years ago, in his first ever watercolor artwork, he painted a car with Portland Head Light in the automobile’s headlight. We think it’s pretty neat and we thank him for sharing it with us.
Billboard Draws Tourists
This billboard featuring the Cape Meares Lighthouse is close to the junction of Highways 18 and 101 when you get out toward the Oregon coast coming down from Portland, Oregon. (Photo by Debra Baldwin.)
Cliffside Rescue Training
Aircrews aboard MH-65 Dolphin and MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters fly past the North Head Lighthouse in Ilwaco, Washington after completing cliff rescue training in the Cape Disappointment State Park. (Photo by Sr. Chief Petty Officer Eric Bednorz, USCG.)
Honoring the Past While Working for Today
Petty Officer 1st Class Kyle Able, a buoy tender supervisor aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Walnut (WLB 205), raises the pennant (flag) of the old U.S. Lighthouse Service prior to an aids to navigation mission off Oahu, Hawaii this past March 7, 2019. The crew of the Walnut often conducts maintenance on navigational aids throughout the Hawaiian Islands. (Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew West, USCG.)
Nobody Cares and It’s Obvious
Members from the 662nd Engineer Company, Virgin Islands National Guard are on a “Ruck March” to the neglected and abandoned Hams Bluff Lighthouse in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. We’ve written about this lighthouse in the past and are perplexed that no one seems to care about it and no efforts are being made to save and restore it. We just don’t get it. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Gregory Camacho, USA National Guard.)
Helos Over Tybee
Two U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Savannah MH-65 Dolphin helicopters fly past Georgia’s Tybee Island Lighthouse on March 15, 2019 to greet the crew of the USCGC Eagle as it arrived for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. (Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Dickerson, USCG.)
Off Alcatraz
Looking over the buoy-laden deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter George Cobb (WLM 564) as it maintains buoys in the waters near California’s Alcatraz Island Lighthouse. From the Point Reyes Lighthouse in Marin County to the Point Loma Lighthouse to the south in Monterey County, the ANT Team San Francisco covers 569 Aids to Navigation, including 13 lighthouses, 35 buoys, and 521 fixed ATON. (Photo by PO2 Corey Mendenhall, USCG.)
Restoring Point Moore
A massive crane goes high above the 115-foot-tall Point Moore Lighthouse in Geraldton, Australia during the recent restoration of the 1878 lighthouse. (Photo by Peter Wilson of Crane Corp Australia.)
Fowey’s First Order Lens
The 1st order lens that was originally installed in 1878 in Florida’s Fowey Rocks Lighthouse near Key Biscayne is now on display at the Coast Guard’s National Aids to Navigation School in Yorktown, Virginia.
This story appeared in the
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