DeTour Reef Light Preservation Society P A S S A G E S PO Box 307 Drummond Island MI 49726
[email protected] www.DRLPS.com 906-493-6609 Issue 11 We’ll Keep the Light on for You! Spring 2007 Officers & Directors Russ Norris
[email protected], President Modeling the Light From Afar . James M. Charles & David Bardsley
[email protected], V. Presidents Charles E. Feltner
[email protected], Treasurer The DeTour Reef Light has been mod- Madison Sentimore also selected the De- eled by two students at the Chesapeake Tour Reef Light. In her research paper Glenn Lahti, Secretary she wrote, “The history of my lighthouse G. Dennis Bailey, Clifton E. Haley, Richard L. Academy in Arnold, Maryland. The Moehl—Directors; James S. Woodward— social studies pro- has to include some of the Honorary Director, and Jeri Baron Feltner— ject for their fifth history of a lighthouse that Founding Director Emeritus grade class in- was first built on shore at Chairpersons cluded creating a DeTour Point at the begin- Database Manager/Assistant Secretary: Paula ning of Lake Huron in P. Bardsley
[email protected] scale model of and a research 1847, and was rebuilt in Stars Event: Joyce Buckley
[email protected] Passages Editor: Candis Collick paper on any 1861, because DeTour Reef
[email protected] lighthouse in the Light replaced it in 1931. Webmaster: Matt and Sheila Sawyer United States. Boat traffic increased a lot
[email protected] The finished dis- so they decided they needed Tours: John & Sunny Covell
[email protected] plays were then a lighthouse in the water to Preservation: Don Gries
[email protected] presented to all mark the dangerous reef.