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2 from the Executive Director 6 Event Calendar 7 Feature Article America's National Historic Landmark Lighthouses Part II: L Volume XXXIX • Issue 1i • January, 2015 4931 South Peninsula Drive • Ponce Inlet, Florida 32127 • www.ponceinlet.org • www.1ighthouselocker.org • (386) 761-1821 • [email protected] © Copyright 2015 Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse Preservation Association. All rights reserved. 2 From the Executive Director 6 Event Calendar 7 Feature Article America’s National Historic Landmark Lighthouses Part II: Lighthouses Constructed from the Jeffersonian Age through Post-Civil War Reconstruction 13 Thank You & Wish List 14 Education Article: The Lighthouse Educational Program Enjoys a Productive Fall Season 16 Volunteer of the Quarter: Tana Lee White 18 Object of the Quarter 20 Gift Shop The Quarterly Newsletter of the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse Preservation Association, Inc. From the Executive Director Dear Members, influenced the way people live, work, and Although lighthouse guests encounter view the world today. Beginning with the a variety of exhibits utilizing digital Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution introduction of the personal computer in devices including touch-screen kiosks, in the 1700s, the world has come to rely the late 1970s, the digital age has provided interactive computer programs, and on the technological advancements that access to more information than one would video presentations while exploring the have transformed human society over have ever thought possible. Available at museum, the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse the past three hundred years. Prior to any given moment with a few clicks of a and Museum has endeavored to strike a the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing mouse, information on nearly any subject balance in the juxtaposition of modern was typically done in people’s homes imaginable can be researched by anyone digital technology with more traditional or in small workshops by skilled artisans with a computer or hand-held device. interpretive exhibit design. In an effort to using hand tools or basic human/animal maintain and accentuate the authenticity driven machines. Commonly referred Did you know that recent studies estimate of this National Historic Landmark, the to as “cottage industries”, hand-crafted nearly 70% of all American adults own Preservation Association has made a goods quickly gave way to mass produced smart phones? Introduced in the early conscious effort to limit its use of “high- products manufactured by relatively 2000s, smart phones improve productivity, tech” equipment within the museum and unskilled labor in factories powered first allow us to communicate with others provide a Wi-Fi free zone throughout the by water wheels and later by coal-fired almost instantly, and provide near limitless facility. steam engines. access to anything on the world-wide web. These wonderful devices allow us to shop, I invite you to leave the gadgets and Limited not only to the manufacturing work, and multi-task around the clock, troubles of modern life behind and enjoy process, the impact of the Industrial most often preventing a true “down time”. the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse as it was meant Revolution could be felt across the entire to be experienced. We look forward to spectrum of human existence and industry Museums are essential community assets, seeing you in the coming months. I wish including maritime commerce and places of learning and reflecting. The you all a healthy and prosperous new year. lighthouse technology. Invented by French Preservation Association takes great physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel in 1822, the pride in its ability to provide visitors the With warm regards, Fresnel lens was one of the most influential opportunity to experience what life was of all nineteenth century lighthouse like for keepers and their families living innovations. Unlike anything that had at the Ponce De Leon Inlet Light Station Ed Gunnlaugsson come before it, the Fresnel lens utilized a during the late nineteenth and early Ed Gunnlaugsson system of prisms to capture, manipulate, twentieth centuries. Executive Director and focus light into concentrated beams Ponce Inlet Lighthouse that could be seen from distances that far exceeded the maximum range of any beacon that predated it. Just as Fresnel lenses revolutionized lighthouse technology, the simple steam engine (and later multiple compression variants) revolutionized the maritime industry. No longer limited by the trade winds for propulsion and course direction, the steam engine allowed sea going vessels to travel anywhere on the planet where navigable waters existed. New trade routes were established and areas that had previously been closed to shipping were accessible to maritime commerce for the first time in human history. Where the Industrial Revolution deeply influenced the way people lived, worked, and viewed the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth, so too has the Digital Age Preservation Association Staff Administration Maintenance Dept. Gift Shop Ed Gunnlaugsson Bob McLean Valair Mitchell Executive Director Tom DiTusa Gift Shop Manager Mike Bennett Dave Doiron Nick Warenyk Director of Operations Stump Madison Gift Shop Manager Ellen Henry Chuck Wescoat Donna Ryan Curator Kevin Nichols Asst. Gift Shop Manager Matt Ricco Mary Wentzel Donna Doan Programs Manager Dean Vanderbleek Janet McSharry Jeremy Carter Karen Huffman Barbara Bradley Administrative Assistant/ Joanne Roberson Bookkeeper Danielle Charshee Kristen Holmes Bill Teasley Registrar L.H. Beaconette: Nelly Victor Otero Jeannine Reno 2 January 2015 • Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station The Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse REGULAR HOURS OF OPERATION Preservation Association is dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of the maritime and social history of Sept 2, 2014 – May 24, 2015 May 25, 2015 – Sept 7, 2015 the Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station. OPEN DAILY FROM 10:00 AM UNTIL 6:00 PM Open Daily from 10:00 am until 9:00 pm (LAST MUSEUM ADMISSION AT 5:00 P.M.) (LAST MUSEUM ADMISSION SOLD AT 8:00 PM) 2015 Board of Trustees Bob Riggio SPECIAL HOURS OF OPERATION President Tara Lamb MUSEUM AT NIGHT EXTENDED HOURS Bike Week Extended Hours Vice President JANUARY 16, 2015 (FRIDAY) March 12 – 14, 2015 (Thurs-Sat) Robyn Hurd LIGHTHOUSE AND MUSEUM OPEN FROM OPEN FROM 10:00 AM UNTIL 7:00 PM 2nd Vice President Judy DiCarlo 10:00 AM UNTIL 8:30 PM (LAST MUSEUM ADMISSION SOLD AT 6:00 PM) Treasurer (LAST MUSEUM ADMISSION SOLD AT 7:30 PM) Cheryl Cunningham Secretary Race Week Extended Hours Wilda Hampton February 13 & 14, 2015 (Fri & Sat) Trustee Emerita February 20 & 21, 2015 (Fri & Sat) Tami Lewis Earl Davis February 23 - 25, 2015 (Mon-Wed) Gladys Davis OPEN FROM 10:00 AM UNTIL 7:00 PM Bill Merrell Ellen Pagliarulo (LAST MUSEUM ADMISSION SOLD AT 6:00 PM) Judy Huggins Advisory Committee WINTER 2015 TOWER CLOSURES Julie Davis JANUARY 4, 2015 (SUNDAY) MARCH 5, 2015 (THURSDAY) Tony Goudie Kristi Drumheller TOWER CLOSED FROM 4:15 UNTIL 6:00 PM TOWER CLOSED FROM 5:15 UNTIL 6:00 PM Edson Graham MUSEUM AND GIFT SHOP OPEN UNTIL 6:00 PM MUSEUM AND GIFT SHOP OPEN UNTIL 6:00 PM Dave Sweat (LAST MUSEUM ADMISSION SOLD AT 5:00 PM) (LAST MUSEUM ADMISSION SOLD AT 5:00 PM) Professional FEBRUARY 3, 2015 (Tuesday) Affiliations TOWER CLOSED FROM 4:45 PM UNTIL 6:00 PM American Alliance of Museums MUSEUM AND GIFT SHOP OPEN UNTIL 6:00 American Assoc. for State and PM(LAST MUSEUM ADMISSION SOLD AT 5:00 PM) Local History Florida Association of Museums Florida Lighthouse Association Florida Trust for Historic Preservation WINTER 2015 PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION MEETING CALENDAR National Trust Forum U.S. Lighthouse Society January 19, 2015 (Monday) 7:00pm Port Orange & South Daytona Chamber of Commerce Board of Trustees and Quarterly Membership Meeting Daytona Beach/Halifax Area Open to general membership Chamber of Commerce Florida Attractions Association February 16, 2015 (Monday) ILLUMINATIONS is published quarterly by the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse Board of Trustees Meeting Preservation Association, Inc. Closed to general public and membership Subscription is a benefit of membership in the Association. ILLUMINATIONS March 16, 2015 (Monday) welcomes letters and comments from our readers. Board of Trustees Meeting Closed to general public and membership All meetings are held in the Gift Shop Conference Room. January 2015 • Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station Ponce de Leon Inlet Light Station • January 2015 3 Keeper ListingsListing Thomas Bush Mark & Amy Albenze Battelle Memorial Institute Ponce Inlet, FL Port Orange, FL Henry Pate David & Jennifer Ahrend Ponce Inlet, FL (Endowment Fund Donor) Port Orange, FL Richard & Diane Boynton Brochure Displays, Inc. Tom & Peggy Ellwood Exeter, NH Chuck & Michelle Cameron Terry McDonough Ponce Inlet, FL Daytona Beach, FL Daytona Beach, FL (Endowment Fund Donor) Phyllis Campbell Ponce Inlet, FL Julius & Becky Erlenbarch Bill & Judy Carrico Inlet Harbor, Inc. Longwood, FL Ponce Inlet, FL Dick Neland Cheryl & Jim Cunningham Ponce Inlet, FL (Endowment Fund Donor) Ponce Inlet, FL Robert & Mary Darge Brian Layman Wealth Earl & Gladys Davis New Hudson, MI Joe & Judy DiCarlo Management of Ponce Inlet, FL Ponce Inlet, FL Raymond James & Frederick & Shirley Eckersen Alexandria, MN Associates L. Keith Casagrande Daytona Beach Shores, FL Dr. C.W. & Gail C. Fain Ponce Inlet, FL Holly Hill, FL (Endowment Fund Donor) Ted & Suzi Hahn Halifax Humane Society Rossford, OH Alan & Mary Ann Redinger Michael & Sheila Harvey The Connection Ponce Inlet, FL Andover, MA Harvey & Connie Bach John and Patricia La Belle Ponce Inlet, FL Dorothy Hukill Ponce Inlet, FL Port Orange, FL Jacquelyn & Alan Law Pilot Club of the Oak Lawn, IL Lester & Tami Lewis Halifax Area Marsha Lewis Ponce Inlet, FL Ormond Beach, FL Daytona Beach, FL Donna Lough Depew, NY Helen & Bill Magale Spanos Motors Dr. G. Scott & Kristi Drumheller Ponce Inlet, FL Kelsey Olson Ponce Inlet, FL Ward & Terry Mead Daytona Beach, FL (Endowment Fund Donor) Ormond Beach, FL Kenneth & Sue Marshall Racing’s North Turn Dermert Brands Ponce Inlet, FL Dennis & Kathy Oehm Walt & Rhonda Glasnak Ellen & Rocky Pagliarulo Kansas City, KS Ponce Inlet, FL Ponce Inlet, FL Patrick & Debbie Pawling Hamilton, OH (Endowment Fund Donor) (Endowment Fund Donor) Ernest C.
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