Current Event 9/7/14

Plenty of Light! Feds are Selling Off Lighthouses

Telegram& Gazette.com ---> Nation/World News


All through out New England, Michigan, and Wisconsin, Light Houses are being sold. This is due to technological advances and the desire to purge unneeded properties. Over the last 14 years over 100 light houses have been sold . Thirty six light houses  have been bought through auction, and have been turned into museums, bed and breakfast places and even homes. While Sixty eight have gone for free to preservations. The government is still planning on giving selling and giving away light houses.


When I first read this article I was shocked and sadden. I don't really like the idea of light houses being sold. I live down at the Cape all summer and there are a ton of them every where. It's part of the areas history and why would you want to sell history? Part of me still wants to believe that sailors depend on them and want them around still, but I know that with new technology they don't need them at all. The good news was they were given for free to preservations so not all of them would be getting altered. At the same time it's still pretty cool that people want to live in light houses and are turning them into bed and breakfast places. That would provide for a good experience. I also like how some will be turned into museums so people could learn the history about them.