This is a poll to determine what your favorite three Harbour Lights Christmas pieces may be. There are three questions asking for your first, second, and third choice to determine the general consensus of the CF members as to what the top three are. Feel free to put additional information by replying to the topic after you vote.

Bob

I just voted, but it's a tough one for me to answer for third choice. #1 & #2 were easy to choose, but really ALL the rest of the Christmas pieces would be in the third catagory for me.

I came into the Harbour Lights world as an already addicted Department 56 collector, so I naturally like the Christmas pieces.

Good poll, Bob.

Judy

This was a tough one, here are my rankings:
1.Stratford Point, CT
2.East Quoddy, NB, Canada
3.Crossover Island, NY
4.Old Field Point, NY
5.White Shoal, MI
6.Conanicut Island, RI
7.Bodie Island, NC
8.Michigan City, IN
9.Marquette Harbor, MI
10.Big Bay Point, MI
11.Hereford Inlet, NJ
12.Colchester Reef, VT

I couldn't resist voting White Shoal MI, as my first choice. No other light I've ever seen looks more like Christmas that those red and white stripes of White Shoals.

Bob

I agree, Bob. That's my favorite too.
Judy

White Shoal is a favorite navigational tool for me. I pass it often moving boats around the lakes. An easy winner.

Dan

I believe White Shoal was the first Christmas HL I purchased. You couldn't ask for a better representation of the Christmas season than White Shoal.

I think right after that purchase, I scored a Big Bay Point and the Colchester Reef Christmas lights.

Bob

What a hard question.
I do not care for any of the lighted ones. It has nothing to do with the lighthouse. I just feel the light-up thing cheapens it.
These are my favorites in no particular order.

.East Quoddy, NB, Canada
.Old Field Point, NY
.White Shoal, MI
.Michigan City, IN
.Big Bay Point, MI
.Hereford Inlet, NJ
.Colchester Reef, VT

I did pick Big bay as my favorite mainly because of the long hunt of trying to find one for less than $200.

Well Bodie Island always wins in my book.

White Shoal is a close second, and Big Bay is a strong 3rd.

The rest are all muddled together with poor old Colchester reef a distant and not surprising last.

I only have four of the Christmas HLs.
Old Field Point, NY
Hereford Inlet, NJ
Crossover Island, NY
Bodie Island, NC
I like them and will be getting more of them.

All of the XMAS pieces were nice until they turned into blinkers...then I quit buying them.

None of my new ones blink, Rock! I just never plug them in or put batteries in them. Now comes the rubber feet and that unattractive (nice word for ugly) AC adapter. Such is life!

:rolleyes: Bob :rolleyes:

I agree with Bob. Mine don't blink. No batteries and adapter is still in the box.

Some do, some don't...like the lighted Christmas HL's,that is.

I'm on the "I really like them" side. When they are set out in a more prominant display during the holidays, the light brings them to life. You can imagine the keeper and his wife and children actully being there, going about their holiday.

I especially love Bodie, because it's one of my favorite lights anyway. Interesting though, a couple of years ago after the Bodie Island Christmas was released ('04), a group of us approached the National Park Service about decorating the real Keeper's home in the same fashion. We were told we could, IF, we could prove that the decorations were historically correct.

We failed in finding any documentation, and John Gaskill, son of the last keeper there, told us that he could not remember ever seeing Christmas wreaths hung, and they never had a tree.

So much for that idea.

Judy

I have to agree that White Shoal, MI is my first choice also. It reminds me of the old time barber pole! My second would be Michigan City, IN and third West Quoddy, NB.