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See recent article in the Journal-Pioneer newspaper -
http://www.journalpioneer.com/News/Local/2014-01-15/article-3577829/Lighthouse-Society-now-online/1
Lighthouse
Society now online
Eric McCarthy
/ Published on January 15, 2014
WEST POINT --
As a well-known historian on Island lighthouses, Carol Livingstone has been called upon to help public school and university students come up with material for class projects.
As a well-known historian on Island lighthouses, Carol Livingstone has been called upon to help public school and university students come up with material for class projects.
Carol Livingstone, left, and Kilmeny Boates leaf
through Livingstone’s large supply of lighthouse photos. They picked from that
collection in selecting photos for the P.E.I. Lighthouse Society’s new website.
Livingstone’s resource service might
soon be in less demand, but not because lighthouses have lost any of their
lure. Now, much of the resource material is available online at the Prince
Edward Island Lighthouse Society’s new website. Livingstone and Kilmeny Boates
got the site up and running just before Christmas.
The site is registered at
four domain names, www.princeedwardislandlighthousesociety.ca or .com and
peilighthousesociety.ca or .com. “It’s worth our investment to nail it
down,” Livingstone said of the identity.
The site contains photos and
information on 63 lighthouse and range light structures spread out along the
Island’s 1,100 kilometers of jagged coastline. The close to 900 photos include
interior and exterior photos of the structures as well as some shots of the
local scenery and historical photos of lightkeepers who maintained the lights
before electricity was installed. Prince Edward Island is believed to have the
highest concentration of lighthouse structures of any province or state in
North America. Approximately 35 of those structures are still listed as active
aids to navigation.
Livingstone, a past president of the
Lighthouse Society, provided most of the photos for the website from what
Boates described as her “mountains and mountains of photos.” She’s been in them
all and knows their history and unique features.
Boates
first became involved in lighthouse research while working on an internship in
2010. “It fast became a passion,” she admits.
Descriptions and dimensions of the
structures, their history, driving directions, special activities and events
that occur on the sites and whether they are publicly or privately owned is
some of the information provided.
Livingstone, the “Lighthouse Lady,”
and Boates will continually add information and photos and are interested in
hearing from anyone who has material to share.
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