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March 2002

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, this month’s whimsical cover is a painting by Melissa Pelletier of Ireland’s Mine Head Lighthouse. An example of the earliest megalithic tombs in Ireland can be found near the lighthouse. However, that last time leprechauns were spotted near the lighthouse was in 1973 just before the last keepers were removed from the station.

A Mystery from the Past

By Timothy Harrison

And In the Print Edition ...

Capt. Benjamin Cox, of North Carolina’s Lost Lights

By Carolyn Venard Cooper

Captain January: Shirley Temple’s Salute to Lighthouses

By Jim Merkel

Coalition Formed to Protect Hudson River Lights

By Jim Crowley

Collecting Nautical Antiques

By Jim Claflin

Correction: Memorial Dedication and Reunion

Distinguished Service Award Presented to Francis Ross Holland, Jr.

By Darlene Chisholm

Famous People in Lighthouse History - Gustaf Dalen

First Woman Lightkeeper on the Keweenaw Peninsula

By Donald L. Nelson

From the pages of time — Midget Lightships

Funds Slow for Most Endangered Light

By Timothy Harrison

Governor Approves Funds for Avery Point

Happy 90th Birthday to Louis Bauchan

Ice Sculpture honors Bauchan

By Michael Bauchan

International Lighthouse Conference to Focus on Children

Isles of Shoals Lighthouse Placed on Doomsday List

By Timothy Harrison

Keepers Korner

By By Timothy Harrison

Lighthouse Patches

My Favorite Lighthouse

By Linda A. Wolfe

New lighthouse exhibit opens

Old letters and envelopes slowly piece together history.

Overfall Lightship LV 118 Steers a New Course Towards Preservation

By Bob Trapani, Jr.

Photo of Minot’s Memorial Given to Museum

President Wants More Money for Coast Guard

Promotional Booklet for Burleigh

Web News

By Geoffrey Baker

What happened to the Confederate Lighthouse Flag?

By Timothy Harrison

Women of the Lights

By Timothy Harrison

Women Tended the Forgotten Eagle Harbor Range Lights

By Don Nelson



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