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Sable Points Beacon Sable Points Lighthouse Keepers Association Spring 2012 Sable Points Beacon Sable Points Lighthouse Keepers Association www.splka.org Spring 2012 Inside this Michigan's First Annual "Maritime Magic" on the white issue: sandy beaches of Lake West Coast Michigan! LIGHTHOUSE FESTIVAL! Schedule of Activities: West Coast 1 June 2-3, 2012, 10am-8pm Lighthouse Saturday, June 2: Festival Sable Points Lighthouse Live music and entertainment Keepers Association invites you 10 am - 8 pm grounds tours, tower climbs and history at all President’s 2 to join in the fun of the Message four of the SPLKA lights First Annual Michigan West Bus Trip by the Shore (visits to Coast Lighthouse Festival! four SPLKA lighthouses) SPLKA Board 2 On June 2 and 3, the lights will Bus Day at Big Sable Point, 10- and Staff be open for extended hours (10 5 pm am - 8pm all weekend) for tours “Maritime Magic” Artisan Craft Welcome our 3 of the towers and grounds from Fair at Ludington Center for New SPLKA Whitehall to Ludington. Enjoy the Arts Interns and Chalk-it-Up contest in Staff! live music, an artisan craft fair, downtown historic homes Pentwater and continuing to tours, entertainment at the Little Sable Point Light Trumans’ Book 4 Sandcastles Children’s lights, children's lighthouse arts Museum - Lighthouse themed Students at BSP 5 and crafts, chalk art contests crafts for kids! and activities for the whole Festival Poster 6 family. Visit the spectacular Big Sunday, June 3: Sable and Little Sable lights Live music and entertainment (both boasting towers that are 10 am - 8 pm grounds tours, Webmaster 7 tower climbs and history at all Shoutout over 100 feet tall!), and climb the Ludington North four of the SPLKA lights Breakwater Light and the White White River Light by the Sea By Land and by 7 (Port City Princess, Muskegon) Sea Package River Light Station. Take in the view from two of the tallest Historic Home Tours, Trips Ludington lights in Michigan, visit the Manistee Pier Light and Nights at the 8 rarely open Manistee Pier Light, Manistee Historic Museum Lights take advantage of transporta- Open from 1 - 4 pm tion out to the remote Big Keepers Log 8 Sable Point Lighthouse, and enjoy a slice of West Michigan's Anniversary 9 maritime history as our shore- Logo Contest line communities celebrate Sable Points Beacon Page 2 President’s Message This year marks the 145th anniversary of Big Sable Point Lighthouse and the 25th anniversary of Sable Points Lighthouse Keepers Association. In addition to these two events we are making history with the addition, on April 1, of the White River Light Station as one of our lights. Our lights now span 55 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline! Thinking about these three events has caused me to pause and think about the first keeper at Big Sable Lighthouse, Alonzo Hyde, Sr. He participated in the opening of “Grande Pointe au Sable Lighthouse” for the first time in 1867, and I wonder what he would say on this 145th anniversary year of BSP? I imagine Alonzo would have a heart of gratitude for those individuals who, 25 years ago, formed an association with the express purpose of preserving Big Sable and preventing it from being washed into Lake Michigan. I imagine he would be thankful for the hundreds of volunteers and thousands of hours that have gone into the task of keeping the light open to the public and the continued education of people from all over the world about its importance to Michigan maritime history. I imagine Alonzo Hyde, Sr., who lived long before computers and the internet, would be in disbelief that we now have the capacity to preserve and manage four lights along a 55-mile stretch of Lake Michigan. He might even be disappointed that ships and boats on the Great Lakes do not need lighthouses for navigation, but rather rely on sophisticated GPS. I imagine Alonzo Hyde, Sr. would be in awe of the hundreds of dedicated members of SPLKA who continue to volunteer and donate not only their time but also their money to see that the mission of our organization is continued. As stated by Elinor De Wire, in Guardian of the Lights, “ The era of the lighthouse keeper has surely ended, but a new kind of keeper has emerged, one who not so much follows in the footsteps of yesterday’s keeper as assures that the winds of time and change to do not erase them. The new keepers dust and polish, scrape and paint, and tread up and down spiral stairs, all to keep the legacy alive so that future generations will know what it was like to be a lighthouse keeper.” It is with a heart of gratitude that I thank you for helping to keep our legacy alive. Please join us this season as we celebrate the 145th anniversary of Big Sable and the 25th anniversary of our Association. Lenore Janman, President of the SPLKA Board of Directors Sable Points Lighthouse Keepers Association Board of Directors and Staff Lenore Janman, President Marcia Martin Robert Baltzer, Vice President Tammy Howell Susan Griffin, Secretary Ceil Heller Doug Buikema, Treasurer Marcia Walsworth Dave Dietrich Cindy Beth Davis-Dykema, Executive Director George Nowsch, Operations Manager Leslie Griswold, Interim Coordinator at White River Light Station Robert Sperling, Supervisor of Restoration and Maintenance Samantha Dains, Gift Shop Manager Shirley Mitchell, Bookkeeper Deborah Dyer, Office Assistant Sable Points Lighthouse Keepers Association Page 3 SPLKA forms partnerships with local colleges and universities In November of 2011, the SPLKA Board approved a small stipend for three interns to assist with on-site operations and event coordination, as well as to continue our mission to engage younger audiences in the fields of historic preservation, restoration and volunteerism. Partnering with Central Michigan University and West Shore Community College, we’ve found three great candidates to serve at three of our lighthouses this season. They will be on-site between June and August and will be available when needed to assist our keepers in the gift shops with set-up, reporting, and closing procedures. We hope you’ll all help to welcome them as you meet them on-site at the lights this season, where they will be working be- tween 17-20 hours per week. Matt Varnum - (CMU 2012) is a History major and Museum Studies minor planning to graduate in Matt Varnum, left, is visited during his tour as a December. He has worked for the local library for the keeper at the LNBL by his professor, Dr. Jay past five years and has also served as a keeper at the Martin, the head of the CMU Museum Studies Ludington North Breakwater Light last season. Matt is program. very excited to work as a liaison to the keepers at Big Sable Point this summer and will be living at the Rosanna Bieber - (WSCC 2013) is a Marketing major LNBL residence. with West Shore Community College and holds a degree in accounting. She volunteers and works Kimberly Nienstedt - (CMU 2013) is a History and part-time for Elite Marketing at Meijer. Rosanna lives Anthropology double major with a minor in Museum locally and will be serving in the liaison capacity at Studies. Kimberly has a great personality and looks the Ludington North Breakwater Light this season. forward to serving at Little Sable Point this season. Karen McDonnell accepts position in volunteer keepers at the WRLS. California: SPLKA hires Leslie is a lifelong Fruitland Interim Coordinator for Township resident and lives several White River Light Station miles from the WRLS. She is a senior at Grand Valley State In January we received word that long time curator at University majoring in History and White River Light Station, Karen McDonnell, had minoring in Nonprofit accepted a position in California and would be leaving Administration. In September or Michigan. In March, the SPLKA Board approved October, the Board hopes to hiring Leslie Griswold as the Interim Coordinator at determine how to move forward White River Light Station and onsite resident between after our first season at WRLS. We hope you’ll stop Memorial Day and Labor Day. This fall our SPLKA down to the White River Light for a visit sometime members will then be given the chance to be and welcome Leslie to our organization! Storms and Sand: A Story of Shipwrecks and the Big Sable Point Coast Guard Station By Grace, Joel, and Steve Truman We all eagerly await the book Steve, Grace, and Joel Truman have written and copyrighted as of 2012. Read here a short excerpt from the book’s introduction: On the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, about halfway up Michigan’s mitten, lies an expanse of sand dunes called Big Sable Point. Today, Big Sable Point is part of Ludington State Park where throngs of visitors enjoy the white sand beaches, forested campgrounds, scenic hiking trails, and the historic Big Sable Point Lighthouse. Back in the late 1800’s, however, the scene was entirely different. Big Sable Point was then called Grande Pointe au Sable, French for “large point of sand.” It was an apt name because the sand dunes extend out into the lake significantly. Logging was a big business in the area at that time and the lumber was shipped by water since Michigan had few roads. Boats had very little navigational equipment so the numerous schooners and steamers made their way along the coast, staying close to the shoreline. Because the boats were close to shore, an unexpected land mass projecting out into Lake Michigan was a hazard to navigation during darkness or times of poor visibility.
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