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Lighthouse Patches
The patch from the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD features their Hooper Strait Lighthouse, an 1879 cottage style screw pile lighthouse that is now located at the museum. Each guest in the museum’s overnight program receives this patch. Thanks to Mary Ann Ray of the Chesapeake Maritime Museum for sending it to us.
Our thanks go out to long-time Lighthouse Digest subscriber, Bill Collette Jr. of Hyannis, MA who sent in the U. S. Coast Guard lighthouse patch from Station Chatham on Cape Cod. The Chatham lighthouse is a popular spot with tourists visiting Cape Cod. Once the site of town lighthouses, one tower was moved in the 1920’s to become Cape Cod’s Nauset Lighthouse.
Paul Shaver of New York, and avid reader of Lighthouse Digest writes that he is a big fan of the Lighthouse Depot store and ALF’s Museum of Lighthouse History. He sent the patch for the Pine Tree Council Boy Scouts.
Eric L. Silvi, Fire Chief of the Village of Fairport Harbor, OH was kind enough to send us the lighthouse patches of the Fairport Harbor Police Department and Fairport Harbor Fire and Rescue. Capt. Jeff Braemer designed the fire department patch and Officer Mike Rebenock designed the police department patch. Coincidentally, Braemer and Redenock are cousins.
The Maine, Rhode Island and North Carolina patches came to us courtesy of Nancy Sheedy of Philadelphia. You would think that if you found a patch in Maine or Rhode Island they would have the sense to put a lighthouse from the area on them. But as you can see these two have generic lighthouses on them.
The Fenwick Island Yacht Club patch comes to us from Robert Lewis of Bethany Beach, DE.
When was the last time you
visited the Marquette Maritime Museum?
Carrie Fries, Museum Manager, sent their beautiful patch to us. The museum is located at 300 Lakeshore Blvd., Marquette, MI 49855. To learn more about them
visit their web site at
www.mqtmaritimemuseum.com
We hope you’ve never had to meet on a professional basis with Donald Bott, a Probation Officer for the Vermillion, Ohio, Municipal Court, who personally dropped off the Vermillion Police Department lighthouse patch to us. We are thankful his visit to Maine was a vacation.
Send us a lighthouse patch and we’ll publish it in Lighthouse Digest. Afterwards we’ll donate it to The American Lighthouse Foundation’s
Museum of Lighthouse History in Wells, Maine.
Mail patches to:
Editor, Lighthouse Digest
P.O. Box 1690
Wells, ME 04090
This story appeared in the March 2004 edition of Lighthouse Digest Magazine. For subscription information about the print edition, click here.
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