Dedicated to the appreciation and preservation of our Life-Saving Service heritage, visit the all new website of The U.S. Life -Saving Service Heritage Association

We highly recommend: At Last! Studio – Bookbinding. Founded in May 1993 by Ruth Strach, the At Last! Studio is a small, fully equipped hand-bindery offering the following services: Leather and cloth bindings and restorations; Custom books, including albums, guest books, journals, theses, dissertations, etc.; Custom boxes, including slipcases and clamshell designs, as well as boxes for photographs and mementos; General book repairs for bibles, cookbooks, albums, children’s books, and all other books which may or may not be valuable but are certainly important to the person who would love to read them again and / or share them with others. To discuss your bookbinding needs, please call or write the At Last! Studio, Ms. Ruth M. Strach, 184 West Greenville Road, North Scituate, RI. 02857. (401) 934-2171.

Gull Rock Light-keepers (GRL) is a Michigan-based nonprofit whose sole mission is to preserve and restore the Gull Rock Lighthouse. GRL was formed by Peter Annin, a former Newsweek correspondent who is currently writing a book about the Great Lakes for Island Press. During the summer of 2004, Gull Rock Lightkeepers teamed up with the nonprofit Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy (MLC) and recently assumed ownership of Gull Rock Lighthouse.

Fort Warren, located on George’s Island in Boston Harbor, is a former Civil War prison and continued to be a harbor defense fort for many generations. Started in 1833, Fort Warren belonged to the federal government until 1958, when the state obtained possession. Today the fort is maintained by the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) and is the centerpiece of the Boston Harbor Islands, a national park area. The fort is situated on a 28-acre island at the entrance to Boston Harbor where it once protected the main shipping channels. Visit author Jay Schmidt’s Fort Warren site for more information including books on the subject.

For a superb site featuring references on antiques and artifacts of the US Lighthouse and Life-Saving Service, visit the Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy.

The Great American Lighthouse Resource!! – dedicated to delivering a content-rich presentation of each of these great American nautical guides including: Present Day Facts Regarding Accessibility, GPS Coordinates, Directions, Maps, etc., Historical Information. Local Bed & Breakfast Inns and Boat Tours, and more.

We recently found this web site http://uniformslist.com They have thousands of links for uniform information of all descriptions. Includes a great deal on Coast Guard Uniforms, Navy, Army, fire department and hundreds more. .

The Swedish Lighthouse Association is a great group with an excellent internet site if you are interested in not only Swedish lighthouses and lightships, but they also have an excellent set of pages on AGA navigation devices including lamps, lamp changers, lenses, buoy lights, etc.

Do you love lighthouses? The Lighthouse Store has the most comprehensive selection of lighthouse collectibles on the Internet. Now everyone with a passion for lighthouses can decorate their home with lighthouse-theme merchandise. You’ll love to browse our pages for the right lighthouse collectible, to be a gift for someone else or, better yet, for yourself.

Do you have pictures that are damaged and in need of repair? Do you have pictures that you would like presented better? Would you like pictures that you cannot take with a camera? If so, we would like to help. Click on the Lighthouse Photo Repair site for information on repair of antique photographs, enhancement and much more.

Click on the Lightship Sailors web site for lightship history, heroes of the past, reunion information and much more.

Another great reference site is Terry Pepper’s Seeing the Light.

For postcard and archival supplies, visit Harris & Jane Gray

For information on medals, tokens, ribbons, political, Masonic and more, go to www.exonumia.com.

See Argonaut Traders for navigational instruments, antique diving equipment and more.

For hundreds of interesting Coast Guard, lighthouse and military articles, stories, poems, lies and more, visit Jack’s Joint.

Visit the Lighthouse Shop for a great selection of interesting lighthouse gifts and other items.

We are in this for one reason and one reason only – to restore the Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse. As the Friends of the Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse, our mission statement reads: “To direct and support the restoration, preservation and long term maintenance of the Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse and to provide public access to the structure for education and enjoyment.” A wonderful site for the history and latest developments in the restoration effort.

New England Lighthouses – A Virtual Guide is a wealth of wonderful information, books, posters, photos and much more covering the lighthouses of New England.

Welcome to Bluejacket.com. Enjoy the graphics and enrich your knowledge base with the facts and figures that have been gleaned from numerous sources to celebrate the tradition and heritage of the United States sea services. Your web master is Gene Oleson, a former enlisted member and officer in the United States Coast Guard, and a retiree from the United States Navy. Filled with history of vessels, uniforms, reunion information, books available, and more.

Discover breathtaking pictures that allows you to create a unique home that will refresh and uplift your soul. Also makes a wonderful gift idea. Enjoy free screensavers, free wallpaper at Lighthouse Picture Gallery & Nature Photos.

Visit Bob and Sandra Shanklin’s site – The Lighthouse People – and accompany them on their cross country lighthouse trips. See our pages for their books Lighthouses of the Hawaiian Islands, and their List of All Existing U. S. Lighthouses.

For a wonderful tour and information about coastal Maine, lighthouses, fishing and more, visit Carol Standish at Maine Harbors.

Wisma Antik www.wisma.com.au Dealing in antique advertising, shipwreck artifacts and vintage nautical items, vintage toys, porcelain, whisky related, and much more.

For a fine general line of stereo views, CDV’s and photographs of all descriptions, visit David Spahr. Dave also includes numerous resources and links to help you in your search. Also visit Dave’s stereoview web site.

Another good site for information on nautical gifts and decor is www.light-house-collectibles.com

Complete Great Lakes historical information, books and more by the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keeper’s Association GLLKA.

Shore Village Museum , now the Maine Lighthouse Museum, is a wonderful museum of out Lighthouse Service, Life-Saving Service and Coast Guard history. Be sure to check out their page, and say “Hi” to Ken Black when you stop by. Ken is the founder of the museum and one of the kindest and most knowledgeable supporters of lighthouse history and preservation.

National Lighthouse Center and Museum

U. S. Coast Guard Historian’s Office

The Long Island Genealogy page features wonderful information on the area including a United States Life-Saving Service History and Resource Page, and an area Lighthouse History and Resource Page.

Constructed in 1844 the Gibbs Hill Lighthouse is the oldest cast iron lighthouse in the world. The hill on which the lighthouse stands is 245 feet high while the lighthouse itself measures 117 feet. A 1,000 watt bulb sits inside a lens revolving in a trough of 1,200 pounds of mercury. Bermuda 4U is a comprehensive and independent guide to the island of Bermuda. Find information about the lighthouses, your ideal hotel, cruise, restaurant, golf course, wedding venue, job, and much, much more. Plan your vacation now.

The Lighthouse Man: The “LEADING” Manufacture of Custom Crafted Lawn Lighthouses, & Lighthouse Accessories

Check out Brass and Bounty for a complete line of nautical antiques, antique lighting, lanterns and more.

http://www.freecycle.org/ Welcome! The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,926 groups with 8,193,125 members around the world. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by local volunteers (them’s good people). Membership is free. To sign up, find your community by entering it into the search box above or by clicking on ‘Browse Groups’ above the search box.