T he Beam Journal of the New Jersey Lighthouse Society, Inc. www.njlhs.org Number 86 T he Beam December 2011 Wow another year is coming to DECEMBER’S MEETING LOCATION a close and with it I regret that The details for the December meeting are still in the works. Hospi- this will be my last issue of The tality will be held at the Sea Girt Lighthouse at 10 AM, with a gen- Beam. I have enjoyed working on eral meeting in the area. Complete information for the next meeting The Beam for the last 6 years, but will be listed on the website www.njlhs.org. as it become available. I have been thinking about giving it up for sometime and I believe TRIPS 2012 now it’s time. I hope someone From The Editor’s Desk Mike Boucher will step up and take over. To keep lighthouse trips at a reasonable cost for our members, the In September Judy & I spent three weeks in Norway photographing Board of Directors has decided to run them a little differently than its many lighthouses - see Pages 9 & 10. Also in this issue we have in the past. Instead of departing from New Jersey on a bus and stories from Washington State, New Brunswick, a reprinted story spending a day going to our starting point, the trip will start near from the Philadelphia Enquirer Magazine from 1958 on the keeper the area where we will be viewing the lighthouses. NJLHS will of the Tinicum Rear Range Lighthouse, as well as all of the regular make arrangements for a group rate with a hotel in the area. It will features. be your responsibility to book and pay for the room and to be at the assigned location for an on-time departure the next morning. Once The Beam, the official journal of the New Jersey Lighthouse Society, Inc., on the tour bus, all rooms, meals and entrance fees will be part of is published quarterly, March, June, September and December. Member- the tour price. The trips will be 2 to 4 days long. ship dues are $20.00 single and $25.00 family, and are for the calendar year. Back issues are available free for members joining mid-year. All ma- Two trips are planned for 2012. May 18-20 there will be a tour terials are copyrighted and cannot be borrowed or reproduced without per- to Virginia. See details below. In late August or early September mission of the New Jersey Lighthouse Society. The NJLHS - New Jersey there will be a trip to Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. Details for Lighthouse Society, Inc., is a non-profit educational corporation (501c3). that trip will be in the next BEAM and on the NJLHS website as OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS soon as they are finalized. President Brett Franks (856) 256-0881 th 1st VP Anthony Albence (302) 983-3200 On Saturday May 19 , we will visit the Cape Charles Lighthouse, 2nd VP Rich Veit (609) 652-1876 the second tallest lighthouse in the country; Assategue Lighthouse, Treasurer Faith Giamboi (732) 350-9595 which has recently been renovated; Chincoteague National Recording Secretary Karen Stumpf-Owen (856) 299-7583 Wildlife Center and a replica of the Old Plantation Flats screwpile Corresponding Secretary Jayne Swope (856) 468-2561 lighthouse that was built in 1886 and torn down in 1962 on Cape Director Jim Cope (609) 587-6266 Charles. The bus will depart from the hotel at 8 a.m. and return at Director Doreen Berson (732) 202-7420 approximately 7 p.m. The cost of the day’s tour is $80 per person Director Anthony Albence (302) 983-3200 and includes admission to lighthouses, the boat to Cape Charles, Director Mary Beth Doherty (973) 978-0129 box lunch and a buffet dinner featuring Shrimp Naples, Yankee Director Carol Winkie (856) 468-6199 Director Vacant pot roast, Zinfandel Grilled Chicken, and Pasta Marinara plus COMMITTEES vegetables and dessert. Archivist Vacant A block of rooms have been reserved at the Best Western Salisbury Beam Editor Vacant Plaza,1735 N. Salisbury Blvd, Salisbury, MD for both Friday Community Outreach Chair Anthony Albence (302) 983-3200 and Saturday night. To make reservations, call the hotel at 410- Education Outreach Bob Gleason (732) 238-7066 546-1300 and mention the NJLHS. The cost is $69 per night and Historian Co-Chairs Jim & Nancy Cope (609) 587-6266 includes free breakfast. It will be your responsibility to book Historian Co-Chairs Mike & Judy Boucher (845) 787-4807 Hospitality Co-Chairs Linda & Bob Gleason (732) 238-7066 your rooms as soon as possible, because after April 1 the price Hospitality Co-Chairs Carol & George Naill (215) 657-4559 of $69 per night will not be available. Membership Co-Chair Linda & Bob Gleason (732) 238-7066 Name Membership Co-Chair Carol & George Naill (215) 657-4559 Address Preservation Chair Brett Franks (856) 256-0881 Programs Vacant City State Zip Phone # Publicity Anthony Albence (302) 983-3200 Email Address Trips Chairperson Apryl Roach (609) 799-0008 Ways & Means Carol Winkie (856) 468-6199 Number of Guest Webmaster Howie Wright (908) 725-9782 Make check payable to NJLHS Mail to Mike Boucher, 15 Starrow Dr., Newburgh, NY 12550 NJLHS Web Site: http://www.njlhs.org Trips Email address: [email protected] CORRECTIONS TO THE LAST ISSUE NJLHS Email address: [email protected] The BEAM Email address: [email protected] In the last issue of The Beam there were 2 corrections brought to NJLHS Announcements: (732) 291-4777 our attention by Colin Mackenzie. The Skunk Bay Lighthouse is Society Address: not a copy of the Mukilteo Lighthouse and the Dimick Faux Light NJLHS, Inc. is a copy of Lime Kiln. Thank you Colin for these corrections. P. O. Box 332 Navesink, NJ 07752-0332 ADDRESS CHANGE To change your address please go to; http://www.njlhs.org/join/ This seasonal cover of Sea Girt Lighthouse is from the Sea Girt AddrCng.pdf down load the form and mail to NJLHS, Inc, P. O. Lighthouse Citizens Committee archives Box 332, Navesink, NJ 07752-0332. Page 2 T he Beam TOURING WASHINGTON STATE LIGHTHOUSES - PART 2 Mike & Judy Boucher We arrived in Oak Harbor, home of Naval As we traveled around numerous islands for Vancouver. Air Station Whidbey Island. After we the sun came out and what would become The station was checked into our hotel we went to supper a beautiful day started appearing. Our next automated in next door and went to be bed early. The next lighthouse was Cattle Point, which first 1974 and the morning we drove to Anacortes to board our appeared on nautical charts in 1887, but keeper’s house boat the “Orcas Express” that was going to whose name goes back to 1853. That year was used by the take us around the Hudson Bay Company brought cattle University of Washington to study whale the San Juan and sheep to the migration. The station is now managed Islands. This trip island and started by the Spokane District of the Bureau of was set up by ranching in the Land Management. BLM has a 3-part plan Derith Bennett, area. The first light for the restoration of the buildings and who had worked was established possibly a museum and a resident keeper very hard in organizing a caravan type in 1888 with a program. They have made repairs to the tour of the Washington State Lighthouses. lens lantern and all the roofs and some of the windows that She set up a route to follow that you could serviced by a needed repair. Solar panels and a propane drive at your own pace with times that each local keeper. The generator were placed lighthouse was open for climbing. One current building in a building behind the could do the whole tour or you could come was built in 1935. keeper’s house. Since in at certain sections, which we did with the Built of concrete, September 11, numerous San Juan boat trip. the tower is mounted on a fog signal cameras have been building and shows a white flash every 4 placed on the light pole We all met at a local marina and walked seconds and the fog horn sounds every 15 for watching the border along a very long dock to reach our charter seconds. Located at the southern tip of San between the United boat. It was cold and somewhat foggy as we Juan Island, one can visit the lighthouse by States and Canada. boarded the boat. Once we left the marina, following a trail from the picnic area of the the Captain opened the throttles and it got Cattle Point Interpretive Center. As our boat was rounding Turn Point, a very breezy and cold. container ship that had been coming up Marking the western shore of San Juan behind us at a rapid speed on its way to We reached the first lighthouse, Burrows Island and the Haro Strait, is the Lime Island Lighthouse which was built in Kiln Lighthouse. 1906 on the The area received its s o u t h w e s t name from the lime corner of kilns just north of the this rugged, light. Built in 1914 h e a v i l y with just a drum light Vancouver, passed us like we were standing w o o d e d on a pole, it was the still. We continued on to our next set of island. The station was placed in service on th last major lighthouse lights, East Point on the Canadian side April 1, 1906.