How about going to the Apostle Islands?
Date: September. During the
Apostle Islands Lighthouse Celebration .
Location for reunion festivities: Bayfield. They seem to be
able to host events. It amazed me, it seems only two Apostle Islands lights have been sculpted by HL. Sand Island in 1991, and Raspberry Island in 2004. So, that leaves us with five more. And the lucky lights I think should be:
Reunion: Outer Island
Society: Devils Island (I just think this is a very cool tower)
Thumbnails: (I assume that these can be repeats of already made lights) Complete set of Apostle Islands lights (all 7, even if not sculpted)
Cruise to see all 7 lights
Special oppurtunities to get into little accessed lights
A raffle with such oppurtunities as a low- or single-digit Sand Island (an original '91), a bridge visit during the cruise (with possible steering privleges...fair warning given to others aboard!
), private time in the lantern of one of the climbed lights, and other regular prizes
Before and after Reunion bus tours, perhaps to Minnesota or the UP...something ending close to a major airport for some people to fly home, as well as allowing the others to go back to the starting point.
There's lots of possibilities...I've never been to the Apostle Islands (on the "when I can drive because my parents are NEVER going to take me halfway across the country to see lighthouses" list), but it looks like it has the criteria for a good Reunion...lighthouse-dense, lodging and convention faclilities, major airports, etc. HL, you reading this?
2005 would also work and everyone could help us kick off our Centennial Celebration since construction of the light station began in 1905
