Ship Island Lens
The lens from the no longer standing Ship Island Lighthouse, Mississippi has been returned to the Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum's temporary location in Biloxi, MS. The lens was nearly destroyed during Hurricane Katrina when a wall of the museum collapsed on it shattering the lens into 100 pieces. The lens was put back together by lens expert Joseph Cocking and had been on temporary exhibit after it was restored at Florida's St. Augustine Lighthouse.

New Dungeness leader passes
Barry Dove, one of the driving forces behind saving Washington’s New Dungeness Lighthouse, has died at the age of 55 after fighting a battle with cancer. Until his resignation last November, Dove was the lone paid staff member of the New Dungeness Lighthouse Association, a position he earned after a decade of volunteering. Friends and associates all agreed that he was a get-it-done person who will have to be replaced by six people. Barry is survived by his wife of 27 years, Belinda and daughter Xisa, 16, his mother and a brother. In his honor, the historical sites trail around the station will be named the Barry Dove Interpretative Trail and the top-most window in the lighthouse tower has been donated in his name. Our condolences go out to his family and friends.

Biloxi Goes Golfing
The winner of the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic Golf Tournament received a cash prize of $240,000 plus a 14” replica of the newly restored and recently reopened Biloxi Lighthouse. The lighthouse is a symbol of the tenacity of the people of Biloxi and those who worked to save the lighthouse that was severely damaged during Hurricane Katrina.

Marshall Point Lighthouse on Cover
The 2010 issue of Maine Discovery Coast Magazine available from the Penobscot Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce features Maine’s Marshall Point Lighthouse from the artwork of Alan Claude whose prints are available from Lighthouse Depot.

TV Series Pilot at Grosse Point
The pilot for a new CBS TV series “The Line” was filmed at Grosse Point Lighthouse in Evanston, Illinois. The program stars Dylan Walsh who plays at ATF agent and Tim McManus who plays a sophisticated bank robber.

Changes in Rockland
The Friends of Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse, a chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation, have elected Eric Davis as the new chairman of the group. Davis replaces Dot Black, who served as the chairperson since 1999 when the group was founded by Tim Harrison and Kathy Finnegan on behalf of the American Lighthouse Foundation. Dot Black, who recently underwent hip replacement surgery, will now be devoting most of her time to the Maine Lighthouse Museum, founded by her late husband, Ken Black, who was known by most as Mr. Lighthouse. Dot is to be congratulated for her 10 years of dedication to the restoration of Maine’s Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse.

Point Clark Gets $495,000
The magnificent Point Clark Lighthouse, one of Canada's six “Imperial Towers,” will soon be receiving a $495,000 restoration as part of Canada's $374 million dollars being used for improvements at that country's national parks and historic sites.

West Point Repaired
The City of Seattle Washington, which now owns the West Point Lighthouse in Discovery Park, has recently made major repairs at the lighthouse, which includes repairs to the copper roof, the lantern room and the stucco, exterior of the lighthouse. The lighthouse should reopen to the public next month.

New Book on the Hard Luck Coast
JoAnn Semones, who has written a couple of past stories in Lighthouse Digest, has a new book out titled, Hard Luck Coast: The Perilous Reefs of Point Montara. This new book follows her previously successful book, Shipwrecks, Scalawags and Scavengers: The Storied Waters of Pigeon Point. The book deals with the disasters and near disasters off Point Montara in a scholarly, yet affectionate, style that is both easy to read as well as informative. The Point Montara Lighthouse is the only American lighthouse to have stood on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. Hard Luck Coast can be ordered from Glencannon Press Maritime Books at 1-800-771-8985 or on-line at www.glencannon.com.

This Issues Trivia Questions

1. What famous lighthouse on the Great Lakes is celebrating its 100th birthday this year with special events all summer long?
2. What is the name of the lighthouse that was relit as a “Beacon of Freedom to the World?”
3. What is the name of the lighthouse that the ‘Fearless Four” served at?

Send your answers to one, two, or all three of the trivia questions listed above to: . One name from each of correct answers to each trivia question will be randomly drawn for a prize from Lighthouse Depot. The winning names and the answers to the above trivia questions will be published in next month's Depot Dispatch.

Please submit only one answer per person per trivia question. Multiple entries will not be accepted; correct answers without a mailing address will not be accepted, and only one answer per trivia question will be accepted. Since winning entries are drawn at random, one person could possibly win more than one prize.
Have fun researching lighthouse history and good luck!

When submitting your answers, be sure to include your full name and mailing address so we can mail your prize to you should your name be drawn from among the correct answers.

Last Depot Dispatch Trivia Winners

1. What city in Indiana has a love affair with one of its lighthouses?
   
   The correct answer is Michigan City, Indiana. Congratulations to our winner Christine Fenner of Prescott, Arizona whose name was randomly selected from amongst the correct answers submitted.
   
   
2. Four Great Lakes Lighthouses, all no longer standing, looked like they might have been designed as space ships or rockets, long before space travel happened. One community now wants to build a replica of one of these structures. Name two of the four lighthouses.
   
   Actually, we were mistaken; there were five lighthouses of similar design. They were built in Petoskey, Michigan, Sheboygan, Kenosha, and Racine, Wisconsin and in Waukegan, Illinois. Petoskey, Michigan is going to build a replica of the original lighthouse. Unfortunately, no one submitted a correct answer with names of two of the lighthouses.
   
   
3. What was the name of the government agency that managed lighthouses in the United States, prior to the Coast Guard?
   
   The correct answer is United States Bureau of Lighthouses. Many people responded with an answer of United States Lighthouse Service, which was the common name, but the official name was Bureau of Lighthouses. Congratulations to Tracy Winters of Greensburg, Tennessee whose name was randomly selected from the correct answers submitted.

Congratulations to our winners! We wish to thank everyone who entered the trivia contest. The winners’ prizes will be mailed to them within the next few days. Our trivia contest can be fun for anyone interested in lighthouses and history. Please pass the word around and encourage others to sign up for the Depot Dispatch.

Braddock Point Lighthouse to Open
The former Braddock Point Lighthouse on Lake Ontario in Hilton, NY will open for overnight guests on a very limited basis this summer with limited reservations. It’s only 90 minutes from Niagara Falls. For more information you will need to contact Don and Nandy Town at Town Manor on the Lake in Florida by going to www.townmanor.com or calling them at 863-984-4008.

Pomham Rocks Gets New Owner
Rhode Island’s Pomham Rocks Lighthouse is now officially owned by the American Lighthouse Foundation. Since 2004 the lighthouse was leased by ExxonMobil to the American Lighthouse Foundation and through this unique partnership the exterior of the lighthouse was restored and the lighthouse was relit. ExxonMobil has now donated the lighthouse to the American Lighthouse Foundation. The historic lighthouse is now being cared for by its chapter, The Friends of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse. This is a wonderful example of a corporate and nonprofit partnership that can be used as an example to be followed by other major corporations around the world.

Lighthouse Tenders
Lighthouse Tenders were the lifelines of the lighthouse keepers, especially at remote lighthouse stations. They delivered supplies such as food, fuel and books. As more and more lighthouses had their keepers removed, the visits of the lighthouse tender became less frequent and they concentrated on maintaining the many aids to navigation placed in our waterways. The Lighthouse Tender Narcissus was one of three 122-foot tenders built in 1939 at the transition time when the Lighthouse Service became part of the Coast Guard. The vessel was decommissioned in 1971 and sold to the nation of Guyana. When the Coast Guard delivered the vessel to its new country, onboard the ship were 4,000 pounds of books for the nation’s poor people as part of “Project Handclasp.” You can now own a replica of this historic ship to proudly display in your home to honor the heritage this vessel played to our nation. It is available from Lighthouse Depot as item # 43123.

Summer Cookouts
The summer cookout season is almost here. You can show your interest in lighthouses to all your friends by wearing our smart looking new Lighthouse Depot Bib Apron. In fact, they also make the perfect gift when you are invited to cookouts at your neighbor’s house or the home of relatives. The new cookout apron is available as Item # 30889.

Pass the Word
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