Its generally accepted that as folks get older their interest in history increases. As the average age of the US population tends to creep higher for the next 20-30 years, will lighthouse interest and sales of Harbour Lights also increase?

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Lighthouse interest will never fade, only increase. Those who have loved will always love. With the increasing concerns and interest in keeping America's lighthouses proudly shining, only goes to show that people at all levels and all ages will never let our Lighthouses Fresnels Fade. The fascinating stories and mystique these sentinels have to offer will continue to amaze everyone who encounters them, A piece of history that you can see, touch and fall in love with.

Collecting interest has nothing to worry about. I caught the bug from the cornfields of Indiana, not too many lighthouses there. But yet their spirits reached out and touched me and hopefully will never let go.

"Spirits"? I think I have been spending way too much time in the cemetery. But that's where we gravediggers belong.

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Some thoughts:

Baby Boomers didn't serve in WW2, the last war when troops were transported by ships which were guided by lighthouses.

Baby Boomers seem to be nostalgic for their 'childhood' icons. Lighthouses were still important in the 1940's and 50's

Baby Boomers are earning much more than their parents ever did (on an adjusted basis)and so have a higher disposable income with which to help preserve a lighthouse or purchase a Harbour Lights or both.

Lighthouses are mostly unique structures, different from all other lighthouses. This gives 'locals' an incentive to preserve something that is uniquely 'theirs'. In some cases, the surviving lighthouse is representative of a boom economy of the past. (Such as Coquille River, built to guide lumber ships in and out of the port.) If you can't save the old economy, save something that represents it.