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Hooper Strait Lighthouse is Welcome to overnighters #31361 08/10/04 08:38 PM
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08/09/04 News Release from: Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
Navy Point, P.O. Box 636
St. Michaels, MD 21663

www.cbmm.org

Contact: Kerry Wargo Clough, Director of Marketing & Media Relations

Phone: 410-745-2916 ext. 155

Email: kclough@cbmm.org


CBMM’s Historic Hooper Strait Lighthouse

is Welcome to Overnighters



ST. MICHAELS, MD—This month, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is opening the doors of its Hooper Strait Lighthouse to families who would like to spend a weekend night much like the keepers of a century ago.

Several evenings in August have been reserved for would-be keepers, who will be given a special tour of the nineteenth-century wooden structure, perform tasks of a traditional keeper, enjoy a picnic dinner, and sleep inside the historic building overlooking the Miles River.

Built in 1879, the lighthouse that now graces the Museum’s Navy Point campus once lit the way past Hooper Strait, some 39 miles south of St. Michaels. Known as a screwpile, cottage-style lighthouse, Hooper Strait resembles a small home that was built on special iron pilings that were literally screwed into the Bay’s soft bottom.

Slated for demolition in 1966, the Museum purchased the building and moved it to its present site. Too large to be moved in one piece, it was horizontally cut in two just below the eaves and was slowly transported on two separate barges up the Bay. The lighthouse was restored and opened to the Museum’s public in 1967. It is one of only three such lighthouses still in existence on the Chesapeake.

Overnighters do not seem to mind the absence of such modern amenities as running water and inside bathrooms or the fact that they must bring their own sleeping pads and bags. “Spending a night in a lighthouse is an experience people never forget,” said Mary Ann Ray, the Museum’s head lighthouse keeper.

Children participating in the overnight program must be at least seven years old and it is required that there be at least one chaperone for every two children. Families may be joined by other families or individuals.

Dates available are Friday, August 13 and Friday, August 27 for children and adults and Friday, August 20 for adult participants only. The program begins at 6 p.m. and ends the following morning at 7:30 a.m.

The cost of the overnight program is $35 for Museum members and $41 for non-members. The fee covers program activities, a picnic dinner, and two days’ admission to the entire Museum.

smile For more information or to register, please contact Rachel Rébert at 410-745-2916, ext. 133 or via email at rrebert@cbmm.org.


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Re: Hooper Strait Lighthouse is Welcome to overnighters #31362 08/11/04 12:47 AM
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Considering that admission to the museum is 9 a person, that's a pretty good deal. They sent out an email about this I got this a few weeks ago. In the 7 or 8 visits Ive made over the past two years, it really is a nice lighthouse. I for one wouldn't mind spending the night in there.


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I believe that Drum Point also has some overnite "campouts" in the lighthouse. Gives folks a nice chance to rough it kind of like the keepers would have. Hope no one uses the "facilities" on the deck around the light.....

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They're pretty paranoid at the Calvert County Maritime Museum, they roped off most of the interior.


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Re: Hooper Strait Lighthouse is Welcome to overnighters #31365 08/11/04 11:32 AM
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This sounds great! I've been to CBMM twice, both times in the late day. Wonderful place. I only went in the light the last time, as the first it was closed, but was much impressed. It would be quite an interesting place to spend the night. smile


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