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		<title>New 1st-class stamps show 5 Gulf Coast lighthouses</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Postal Service started selling first-class stamps Thursday with five Gulf of Mexico lighthouses that withstood hurricanes in 2005. The 44-cent stamps depict lighthouses in Biloxi, Miss., and Sand Island, Ala., battered by Hurricane Katrina; Matagorda Island, Texas, and Sabine Pass, La., which withstood Rita; and Fort Jefferson, Fla., slammed by Wilma. U.S. Postal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouse43.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2157978&amp;post=285&amp;subd=lighthouse43&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>B&amp;B plans for decrepit NY lighthouse off LI coast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nonprofit group wants to turn a delapidated lighthouse with a sweeping view of Long Island Sound into a bed-and-breakfast. Execution Rocks Lighthouse&#8217;s ladder is rusty, the stairs are rickety and the plaster walls are crumbling. There&#8217;s also a rotting hole in one floor. But the Philadephia-based nonprofit preservation group hopes a $1.2 million renovation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouse43.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2157978&amp;post=281&amp;subd=lighthouse43&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biloxi Lighthouse gets makeover, stamp</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 1, 2009 Work has begun on the Biloxi Lighthouse, four years after the Gulf Coast landmark was damaged during Hurricane Katrina. Officials say workers will remove the decorative fence around the base, then start inside, replacing missing bricks and repairing the mortar. On July 23, the lighthouse will be the host site of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouse43.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2157978&amp;post=276&amp;subd=lighthouse43&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visit Historic Oregon Lighthouses   by Barbara Pfieffer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 12:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lighthouses in Oregon The rugged coast of Oregon offers visitors a chance to view and tour some of the most beautiful lighthouses in the world. In all, Oregon boasts eleven lighthouses along its shorelines. Many of these lighthouses have been restored and are a great way to learn about the history of the state. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouse43.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2157978&amp;post=79&amp;subd=lighthouse43&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visitors can view historic lighthouses on SC coast</title>
		<link>http://lighthouse43.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/visitors-can-view-historic-lighthouses-on-sc-coast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 15:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 16, 2009    A tour of Lighthouse Island in the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge on the South Carolina coast is being offered this weekend. On Sunday, visitors can attend an 11 a.m. presentation on the lighthouses at the Seewee Visitor and Environmental Center northeast of Charleston. Then they will drive to McClellanville to catch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouse43.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2157978&amp;post=264&amp;subd=lighthouse43&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maine Lighthouse Museum may have to close</title>
		<link>http://lighthouse43.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/maine-lighthouse-museum-may-have-to-close/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 15:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 13, 2009  The Maine Lighthouse Museum in Rockland says rising costs and lagging donations have led to financial problems that may force it to close. Board member Dot Black, widow of museum founder Ken Black, said Wednesday that without financial help, &#8220;the lights may go out in the largest and most important lighthouse museum [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouse43.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2157978&amp;post=261&amp;subd=lighthouse43&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Park offers nighttime tour of Hatteras Lighthouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 22:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Park Service is offering 60 people a chance to climb a coastal North Carolina landmark. The Park Service said the nighttime tours of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse will be conducted Friday at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Each session is limited to 30 people who buy tickets earlier that day. Climbers will ascend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouse43.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2157978&amp;post=256&amp;subd=lighthouse43&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Funds approved to restore NC&#8217;s Bodie Island light</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 19:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The federal budget includes $3 million to restore the deteriorating Bodie Island Lighthouse on North Carolina&#8217;s Outer Banks. The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk reported Thursday that the money is the estimated amount for a complete restoration of the 1872 lighthouse structure north of Oregon Inlet. Bodie Island light was damaged when the National Park Service acquired [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouse43.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2157978&amp;post=246&amp;subd=lighthouse43&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lighthouses of Alabama &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alabama&#8216;s very short coastline has 3 surviving lighthouses, but only one is active and one has been removed for restoration.  A state preservation society, the Alabama Lighthouse Association, was formed in 2002.  The Sand Island Light is one of the most endangered lighthouses in the nation.  The Sand Island and Mobile Bay lighthouses were also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouse43.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2157978&amp;post=237&amp;subd=lighthouse43&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lighthouses of Alabama Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secretary of the Treasury empowered by Congress in May 1838 placed an “iron spindle” lighthouse on the outer bar of Mobile Bay Alabama. The tower was visible from a distance of six miles and completed in 1830.  However, mariners complained about how inadequate the lighthouse was.  Congress allotted $10,000 for an improved lighthouse on Sand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lighthouse43.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2157978&amp;post=241&amp;subd=lighthouse43&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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