After my wife and I have been collecting Harbour Lights for a number of years and also visiting the web-site frequently, it seemed like the right time to take the plunge and get in touch with the rest of the lighthouse world. We enjoy reading the forums and hope that we can become productive participants. Being way up in northern Wisconsin we seemed to be quite isolated from alot of the central activities that go on with clubs and Harbour Lights. We look forward to this with great anticipation.

GOMEZ

Welcome Gomez to you and your wife. You will both have a great time on this fourm, the people, for the most part are HL Wackos even if their status is Newbies are higher up the ladder.

Pleae don't hesitate to ask questions, someone will find you and answer, sometimes your get many answers and no two will be alike but thats part of the fun.

Always state your Opinion, we all do.

Again welcome aboard and hope to see you here on a regular basis.

Cool front in SW Louisiana, high around 83 lows in the eveming and early morning around 67.



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Bob

Let me be the first to welcome you Gomez. You will find here a great group of people who are very helpful. Hope you enjoy your visits.
Jim
Johnson
oops-Bob types faster than I do.

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Welcome Gomez. It will be fun.
George

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A hearty welcome from "TheLightkeeper"-Mike

"TheLightkeeper"

Welcome Mr and Mrs Gomez

To The Greatest Show On Earth!

And remember, it's only money!

Tony

Welcome to the forums. You will find it certainly interesting, informative and sometimes even entertaining. But most of all you will find that you are among friends

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Jim Chesher

Welcome Gomez and wife.

The more, the merrier.

Joanne

Welcome, Gomez! Participation by all involved is what makes the Collector's Forums a great place to visit. There is a wealth of information to be had for the asking.

Bob

Welcome to Gomez, who comes from the town with the HUGE fish statue. I am a WI native, and just spent 3 weeks there in St. Germain lake country, right during that big tornado that took down hundreds of thousands of trees in the north country.

The only lighthouse I have seen in the north country is a fake one attached to the Beacon Resort on Lake Minoqua, in Minoqua. Guess you will have to go over to Duluth,MN, and work your way up the lake shore; or over to Door County and down the Lake Michigan shoreline to the Ill. border -- there are quite a few nice ones, including Sturgeon Bay and Racine's Wind Point.

There is a Harbour Lights collector club in Wis, a very active one, called The Great Lakes Harbour Lights club. It is based in Milwaukee with Pres. Jim Johnson, but they hold meetings and Outings around the state. You can find his address and contact phone if you scroll down the left side of this lavendar HL webpage and look for Collecting. The club roster section is then listed under that for you to click onto.

Also on the Forums here, keep scrolling until you see the heading, Collector Clubs. Members post information on upcoming club meetings and events.

And please read my posting right near yours, about how you can become a wacko, become eligible to buy the pin, and do your part in helping to save a lighthouse. E-mail me if you want more info on it. Keep the Flame, Ladylightkeeper

Just a quick correction on Ladylightkeeper's note above, the president of the Great Lakes Collectors Club is my friend with the t, Jim Johnston. He will be glad to welcome you to their club and put you to work on one of their worthy projects.
Jim
Johnson

Welcome Gomez,

I also am a Newbie. I have only been on the forum for about 3 months, and have found a wealth of information and talent.

Whatever question I have asked, there was someone who would point me in the right dirrection.

I found the hardest post to put on the forum was the first, and you've done that, so its nothing but the best from here on out.

Bert

Welcome Gomez & Bert. You are now part of a very large family which stretches across our nation (and beyond). I am glad that you decided to post here and hope that your doing so is an inspiration for others who haven't posted yet. It's nice having you both aboard.

Ron
(CT Keeper)

Welcome to the forum Mr.& Mrs. Gomez!!

It's a great place to visit and there are a lot of great folks here

Mike

Thanks so much for the welcome many of you gave us through forum responses. I can seether is going to be no problem in securing wacko status.

Again, thabks for the big welcome aboard!!

Gomez

Gomez:

Welcome to the zany world of Harbour Lights and the fine folks who inhabit these forums! I see you hail from beautiful and scenic Hayward, Wisconsin, and I think you should feel lucky to live there.

I get to fly up to Hayward occasionally and always enjoy the view of pristine forests and state parks, all bejeweled by the myriad of lakes to be found in the region.

FYI, if you are able to get down to Minneapolis sometime, you might care to know that there are no fewer than 10 HL dealers in the area!

If you have the interest, let me know and I'll offer my opinion on the ones worth visiting who have the larger displays and sometimes will deal or who have sales.

Welcome!

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Bob Steinbrunn
Nautical Research Guild

Welcome to our world, Gomez. How are things up in Heyward? I used to go fishing up around Minoqua. I miss the summers up there.

Welcome Gomez

As everyone has said this is a great place to visit and post replys and ask questions. I have only been doing this for a short time myself and already have obtained some very valuable information.
Dale

Welcome Gomez Family!! I hope you find this site as rewarding for you as it was for us. There is soooo much information on this site, we still have so much to uncover.

~Tom & Monica

Welcome Mr. & Mrs. Gomez. I am a newbie, also but enjoy getting a wealth of info from the forums. Everyone is fantastic. It really makes collecting lighthouses and info on them easier.