Why thanks all of you! What a warm welcome. I've always loved lighthouses ever since I was little. My mom is an artist and I have a beautiful painting she did, its hanginging in my livingroom in fact. Its of Cape Hattaras I think she said, in the Carolinas? I should take a digital and do a link to it so you can all see it.

Im a historian in NY. I think lighthouses have such a mystic about them, the stories they could tell!

In fact it is a quest that has brought me here which I shall put in a seperate post ......