May I be the first to wish you all, and your families, a very Merry Christmas and Happy Hoilday Season.

I thought it might be interesting to see how many people and states we would hear from in this thread.

What's that you say? It's a little early? Not by my standards. It seems like July 4th was just yesterday and now it's December 1st already. The year 2001 is knocking at the door!

Bob
North Attleboro, Massachusetts

From the great Bluegrass State of Kentucky I wish all on the forums a Very Merry Christmas and a Bountiful 2001.

KYKEEPER - Pat

To the greatest lighthouse collectors in the world a Very Merry Christmas and all of the best for 2001

From the Great Lake State of Michigan, home of the famous "Petoskey Stone"!

Mary & Herm

From the Great State of New York, (recently tarnished by Senator Carpetbagger, and the Presidential votes), I would like to wish all my fellow Collectors, WACKOS, and Forum Members (yes, double counting), A Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday and a Healthy and Prosperous New Year!

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From the Confused State of Florida. But a Tarheel till I die! The Weasel, would like to wish you and yours a Hearty HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! Remember folks go out there and have fun, but I want all of you to come back safe and sound.
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From North Carolina, home of Cape Hatteras light house, we want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! May you and yours have a blessed holiday season.

Tim - Merry Christmas!




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A joyfull and Merry Chirstmas and Happy New Year to all Forum members, especially the saints who have provided another year of great leadership here.

From a cold and getting whiter by the day
Minne-Snowta

Adam and Mindy

Feliz Navidad from Portland, Maine, where Santa arrives on a lobster boat...

Happy Holidays from Colorado and the 14,000 foot Rocky Mountains where Santa's Reindeer get a workout visiting the towns in the high country.

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from oseabee Bill O'Brien may you and yours have a merry christmas and a happy new millenium.Looking forward to next October and meeting many of you .

Happy holidays from Salt Lake City, home of the (sometimes scandalous) 2002 Winter Olympic games. I hope all of you have a safe and enjoyable holiday season and a healthy, prosperous New Year.

Best Wishes for a Happy Holiday Season from the "Peach State" (Georgia). May all your gifts be Harbour Lights!

Rich

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL YOU FELLOW WACKO'S From the "Sunshine State" Arizona... No lighthouses or snow here but plenty of lighthouse lovers.


Ruthie

A "Tender Tennessee Christmas" to all from the Volunteer State.

Tennessee Christmas

Come on, weather man,
give us a forecast snowy white
Can't you hear the prayers
of every childlike heart tonight
Rockies are calling, Denver snow falling
Somebody said it's four feet deep
But it doesn't matter, give me the laughter
I'm gonna choose to keep.

Another tender Tennessee Christmas
The only Christmas for me
Where the love circles around us
Like the gifts around our tree
Well, I know there's more snow up in Colorado
Than my roof will ever see
But a tender Tennessee Christmas
is the only Christmas for me.

Every now and then I get a wandering urge to see
Maybe California, maybe Tinsel Town's for me
There's a parade there, we'd have it made there
Bring home a tan for New Year's Eve
Sure sounds inviting, awfully exciting
Still I think I'm gonna keep.

Another tender Tennessee Christmas
The only Christmas for me
Where the love circles around us
Like the gifts around our tree
Well, they say in L.A. it's a warm holiday
It's the only place to be
But a tender Tennessee Christmas
is the only Christmas for me.



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We would like to wish all of our Harbour Lights Family a very safe and happy holiday season. From very cold Upstate New York.

Patty & Mike

Merry Christmass to all HL nuts and addicts

From the city of BIG RED and the Tulip Festival
Holland Mich.
Larry & Kathy

I dug the tree out of the Forum's basement from it's storage since last Christmas. It just took a little dusting off, and it's as good as new once again (although one bulb burned out). Now in it's 3rd year.

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I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A WONDERFUL & SAFE HOLIDAY
...AND YOU RECEIVE ALL THE HL'S YOU WISHED FOR

It's been a wonderful year keeping in touch with everyone, as well as making many new friends on the wonderful world of the 'net. Let's hope next year will be as friendly and prosperous as this one. A big thank you to John and the HL family for providing this top notch site for all of us to share in our favorite hobby.

-In a holiday mood from northeast Ohio

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From the Show Me State of Missouri Carolyn & I would like to wish you & yours a Joyous Holiday Season & a Prosperus New Year. Looking forward to seeing all of you in 2001.

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Happy Holidays from the Land of Enchantment, New Mexico and from a transplanted Tarheel. Best wishes for the years to come.

Mike

Happy Holidays to all of you from the Golden State of California. I was born in Michigan, grew up in Ohio and have never been able to resolve the crisis of being from both of those places, so moved to CA.

Rest assured that it will not be a "White Christmas" here. Probably very wet though.

Rich

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Merry Christmas to everyone who becomes a kid at Christmas when you see a lighthouse. From Minnesota to all my fellow Harbour Lights Collectors, I hope the upcoming year brings you health and happiness to you and your families.

TD

Terry

Greetings from the state of Missouri, where we are receiving our first snow of the year! I was born and raised in Illinois and visit home often, so I send Holiday wishes from there as well!

chris g

Merry Christmas from Arizona

0 :>) St. John of the Internet

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Greetings from Janesville, WI....... A very Merry Christmas and joyous New Year to HL, St John and ALLLLLL of the wonderful lighthouse lovers!! And, to all the very talented posters and your art work. I am green with envy!
God Bless everyone!
Pam

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year from Southwest Ohio! Also, to a New Century and a New Millennium! Now these two will be official!(not last Jan. 1)

Bob, I "feel your pain" with your new Senator! (better you than me!) Look out in four years!

Happy Holidays to all from the breezy and cold Northcoast of Ohio.

Tom & Diane

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

from the
"FIRST STATE"
DELAWARE

Lonnie, Colleen, & Brittany

From the great Commonwealth of VA with the first License plates for lighthouses,Have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and may visions of future lights fill your nights and Santa is good to everyone.
Kevin

Merry Christmas from the Hudson River Valley in upstate New york.
December 1946 Saturday Evening Post cover

For a larger version go to:
http://members.aol.com/thelightkeeper/HappyHolidays.html
1941 Christmas Seal artwork

Which looked like this:



"TheLightkeeper"

Happy Holidays and a Very Happy and Healthy New Year to everyone.

Joanne
Orlando, Central Florida

MERRY CHRISTMAS HARBOUR LIGHTS FRIENDS!!!

From the state of FL where you have to turn on the air conditioner on Christmas Day, a wish for a most blessed holiday season. May you all be safe and surrounded by ones you love.

A Thought For CHRISTMAS

Do you know what would have happened
If it had been Three Wise Women
Instead of Three Wise Men?

They would have asked directions,
Arrived on time,
Helped deliver the baby,
Cleaned the stable,
Made a casserole (with extra cheese),
Brought practical gifts and
There would be Peace on Earth.

Derith

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Merry Christmas from the Mountain State...and no its not Colorado, its West Virginia! My Christmas wish is to have a lighthouse in West Virginia. I mean its a beautiful state, but with a lighthouse it really would be "Almost Heaven!"

Doc John

Happy Holidays from Madison, Wisconsin!

The State of Wisconsin is home to more than 45 lighthouses! Wisconsin is home of Door County, the county with more lighthouses (10), more miles of shoreline (250), and more state parks (5) than any county in the contiguoius United States!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM INDIANA!

Merry Christmas
From North Carolina

terry

From the land of Cape Henry, Assateague, and Old Point Comfort to the Blue Ridge Mountains......I would like to wish ALL Harbour Lights Collectors and Their Families the VERY BEST OF HOLIDAYS AND A WONDERFUL & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!!!!









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Happy Holidays from Texas, the Lone Star State and home of President-Elect George W. Bush.



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"Keeping The Flame in New England"
Ron & Mary Jane

To all the great collectors of Harbour Lights:

HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A GREAT NEW YEAR!!

We are halfway between the home of Big Red and the Grand Haven lights in the Winter Wonderland of Michigan.

Jeff and Mary

Happy Holidays from the state of Washington.

Happy Holidays from the Free State (Maryland) and the host state for the Harbour Lights Reunion 2001.
Hal and Betty

Season's Greetings HL Collectors from
snowy Western New York where we know Santa gets around on a sleigh bearing tiny lighthouses in blue boxes......
Carol & John

Happy Holidays from New Hampshire.

Augie & Lisa



The Flame

A very Merry Christmas to all and a safe and Happy New Year from the State of Florida (still a New Yorker at heart though )

John

Merry Christmas Everyone!

**From Connecticut with snowflake wishes and fireside dreams**

Have a wonderful holiday season!

Keri

I did this count in a hurry so it should be correct, but in this year of recounts feel free.

Updated to include responses below this post also.... the states responding are:
1. Arizona
2. California
3. Colorado
4. Connecticut
5. Delaware
6. Florida
7. Georgia
8. Illinois
9. Indiana
10. Kentucky
11. Louisiana
12. Maine
13. Maryland
14. Massachusetts
15. Michigan
16. Minnesota
17. Missouri
18. New Hampshire
19. New Jersey
20. New Mexico
21. New York
22. North Carolina
23. Ohio
24. Pennsylvania
25. South Carolina
26. Tennessee
27. Texas
28. Utah
29. Virginia
30. Washington
31. West Virginia
32. Wisconsin


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to update the list of states............

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Proud to be the first from Illinois to wish everyone Happy Holidays and wishes for a safe New Year, so we can meet you all in October!

From just outside snowy (finally) Chicago

Mike & Patti
God Bless

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Merry Christmas from New Jersey!!!!!

Merry Christmas from Missouri. May you all enjoy a wonderful holiday season with family and friends.

Judy

Seasons Greetings from Greenwell Springs, Louisiana home of "The King" of our household, Chieu Le.

Great minds think alike, Paul. As of this post we've heard from 32 different states. I guess the readers of the CF have the entire US pretty well covered. It's great to see the HL Family of Friends stretched out over the entire nation and not just along the coastal states.

Bob

Dashing through the snow
The snowplow makes its way.

O'er the roads he goes
Laughing all the way.

Your mailbox I will ring.
It will sure take flight.

What fun it is to ride and sing a plowing song tonight!

Oh,

Let it snow.
Let it snow.
Let it snow today.
Overtime is what I'll see when I get my pay.

Lake Effect
Lake Effect
causes it they say.
Oh what fun it is to wish you all a Merry Christmas Day!

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Happy holidays from North Point Lighthouse in Milwaukee, Wisconsin


A Merry Christmas to everyone in the Collectors Forum. Remember after all the glitter & presents past that the ture reason the we celebrate Christmas is for the birth of our Savior Jesus.

Jim & Joan Johnston & family

Seasons Greetings from a windy Pennsylvania.

Matt

Well, yet another MERRY CHRISTMAS from Indiana! And, this seems to be the most successful post ver on this forum! I'm closing it (over 50) and am opening a new one.

Stephen