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Our thanks goes out to Linda Peirson, The Delaware Lighthouse Lady for sending us the Delaware Lighthouse Keepers & Friends Association lighthouse patch.
Steven Hanley of Florida donated the South Portland Police patch and the USCGC Ida Lewis patch to us. The South Portland patch features a rendition of Portland Breakwater Lighthouse, while the Ida Lewis patch shows both the Ida Lewis Lighthouse and the USCG Cutter Ida Lewis.
Gerry and Barbie Linddenlauf of Honey Brook Pa drove all the way to Maine to give us the patch of the Cedar Key Florida Police Department patch.
Wendall Walker of Apolla Beach, Florida sent us the Coast Guard, Pittsburgh, patch that features three different Coast Guard vessels.
Send us a lighthouse patch and we will publish it in Lighthouse Digest. It will then be donated to the Museum of Lighthouse History in Wells, Maine where it will go on display. Send patches to: Tim Harrison, Lighthouse Digest, P.O. Box 1690, Wells, Maine 04090.
Our thanks also goes out to Bill Vale of Massachusetts for donating the lighthouse patches from the Aquinnah, Massachusetts Police Department; Village of Key Biscayne, Florida Police Department; and Port Isabel, Texas Police Department.
These patches will now be on display at the Museum of Lighthouse History in Wells, Maine. If you have a lighthouse patch that you’d like to donate to the museum please send it to Tim Harrison, Lighthouse Digest, P.O. Box 1690, Wells, Maine 04090. After we publish patches in Lighthouse Digest, they are displayed in the museum.
This story appeared in the October 2002 edition of Lighthouse Digest Magazine. For subscription information about the print edition, click here.
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