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Maine Lighthouse on Fox TV
This December 10th be sure to watch "Real Scary Stories" on the Fox Family Channel. Check your local listings for the exact time. The first segment of the show deals with Maine's Seguin Island Lighthouse where there have been many tales of ghostly hauntings over the years. Other segments on the show deal with sea monsters, and mysterious happenings at Staten Island. The 30-minute show is part of a reality series exploring young people's experiences with the supernatural. If you know of a real scary story that you experienced as a child or know of a child who has experienced one contact Jason Ciaccia at Highland Entertainment and you might be included on the show. You can call him at 212-647-1200 or by email at Jason@highlandentertainment.com.
Harrison to speak at Winter Lights Festival
The Calvert Marine Museum will host its annual "Winter Lights Festival - A Celebration of Chesapeake Bay Lighthouses" at the Calvert Marine Museum, in Solomons Maryland, on Saturday, January 13, 2001. This day long event will feature book signings, a gingerbread lighthouse contest, tours of Cove Point Lighthouse, exhibits of lighthouses on the Bay, living history in the Drum Point Lighthouse and video tours of many of the Bays lighthouses.
Tim Harrison, co-founder of Lighthouse Depot, editor of Lighthouse Digest Magazine and president of the American Lighthouse Foundation will be on hand to autograph copies of his books, "Endangered Lighthouses" and "Lost Lighthouses". He will also be giving a slide/lecture titled, "Lighthouses, How we are saving them". The event opens at 10am and closes at 5pm with a dinner at 5:30pm in the Museum Lodge. Dinner tickets are $10.00pp.
For more information or dinner and lecture tickets contact the Calvert Marine Museum, P.O. Box 97, Solomons, Maryland 20688 or call their Education Department at 410-326-2042 or visit their web site at www.calvertmarinemuseum.com
Lighthouse Magazine on BBC-TV
Lighthouse Digest magazine was just featured on BBC-TV's popular program, "Have I Got News For You". Over 6 million people watched that edition.
Great Gift Idea
If you can't think of anything to get that special person who likes lighthouses or history, may we suggest a gift subscription to Lighthouse Digest Magazine? The magazine comes out every month and with current news events on lighthouses, historical stories, rare photos, a children's section in every other issue, the Rothman Report about Harbour Lights Collectibles, new lighthouse products and books, and a calendar of events of lighthouse happenings around the country as well as overseas. By subscribing you are doing your part in helping to save lighthouse history. A subscription is only $28.00 a year by calling 1-800-758-1444 or order on line at www.LighthouseDigest.com. All major credit cards are accepted.
Nubble light lit for the holidays
Maine's Cape Neddick Lighthouse (Nubble Light) is now decorated and lit for the holidays. The lighthouse, located in York, Maine, will be lit every night through New Year'[s Eve. Be sure to stop and see it. While in Maine, be sure to visit Lighthouse Depot, The World's Largest Lighthouse Gift Store on U.S. Rt 1 (north) in Wells. It's open every day.
Flying Santa of the Lighthouses
Our best wishes to the volunteers of the Friends of the Flying Santa for another holiday season of welcome visits to lighthouses. The Flying Santa or "Santa of the Lighthouses" is a tradition that goes back to 1929, when it was started by Maine pilot Bill Wicapaw. New England historian Edward Rowe Snow continued it for over 40 years.
Today, George Morgan, (who really looks like Santa) and Dave Waldrip and others are keeping up this wonderful tradition. If you'd like to learn more visit the Friends of the Flying Santa website at www.flyingsanta.com.
Artifacts Donated
The American Lighthouse Foundation has just received a donation of lighthouse artifacts and documents valued at $20,000 or more. Many of these items will eventually be displayed at the Lighthouse Depot Lighthouse Museum in Wells, Maine. ALF is always looking for artifacts, photographs and memorabilia of the U.S. Lighthouse Service or early U.S. Coast Guard artifacts to be saved and displayed for all to see and learn from. They can be sent to, Tim Harrison, American Lighthouse Foundation, P.O. Box 889, Wells, ME 04090 or call Tim at 207-646-0515.
Rewards still offered
We are still offering rewards for the following photographs . . .
$250.00 cash reward for a photograph of the first Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, NC
$250.00 cash reward for a photograph of the first Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, NC being blown up.
$200.00 cash reward for a photograph showing both the original Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and the current Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, NC in one photo.
$100.00 Lighthouse Depot Gift Certificate for a photograph of the first Cape Hatteras Light before its famous white and black spiraling strips were painted on it.
There were lots of photographs taken during this time period, but where are they now? What happened to them? They could be in antique stores, old trunks in the attic, in old books, etc. If you find one contact Editor, Lighthouse Digest, P.O. Box 1690, Wells, Maine 04090 or contact Tim Harrison at Timh@lhdigest.com
Pledges needed for fog bell
The American Lighthouse Foundation has located an extremely rare brass fog bell of the United States Lighthouse Establishment, which was before the United States Lighthouse Service, so the bell most likely dates back to the early or mid 1800's. The owner of the bell wants $5000.00 for it. This bell needs to be saved from private ownership and should be on display in the museum. If you wish to pledge money for the purchase of this bell, you donation may be tax deductible. Pledges should be sent to Timh@Lhdigest.com or mail to American Lighthouse Foundation, Brass Bell Account, P.O. Box 889, Wells, Maine 04090.
Lighthouse Depot donates to Rockland Breakwater
When you purchase a replica of a Harbour Lights Rockland Breakwater replica you are helping to save the lighthouse. For every Harbour Lights Rockland Breakwater replica purchased from Lighthouse Depot, we will donate $10.00 to the Friends of Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse, which is a chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation. This along with the $5.00 donated by Harbour Lights for each replica sold gives $15.00 from each replica toward the restoration of the lighthouse, which will eventually be opened to the public as a living history museum. 
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