On March 29, 2008 the board of directors for the American Lighthouse Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Rockland, Maine, adopted a new logo, which will become the focus of the organization’s branding efforts associated with its lighthouse preservation and education mission in 2008 and beyond.

Nicole Muller
The MetroWest Daily News
Apr 02, 2008

Irene Tibbetts Dumican celebrates a century of life

DENNIS — Irene Tibbetts Dumican was born into a rare and beautiful world in which whistling winds and lapping waves were her first lullabies.

Their music has accompanied the seasons of Dumican’s life for 10 decades.

“My family lived on Spectacle Island in Boston Harbor where my father was the lighthouse keeper,” says Dumican, who will celebrate her 100th birthday April 9. “He brought my mother by boat to Medford Hospital, where I was born in 1908.”

When Dumican was 4, the island’s wooden range lighthouses were closed, and her father was transferred to Highland Light in North Truro, launching his young daughter’s 96-year love affair with Cape Cod.

Alexander Abnos
USA Today
April 1, 2008
Assist by Judy (Vacastle)

Pete Jurewiscz couldn't believe he'd won. The online auction, which he had entered on a whim, closed at $65,000. "Honey," he told his wife, Bonnie, "I've got good news, and I've got bad news. The good news is we own a lighthouse. The bad news is — we own a lighthouse."

Jurewiscz, 39, a test coordinator at a Norfolk, Va., power plant, is part of a small but growing club: private citizens, non-profit organizations and state and local governments that have acquired historic lighthouses from the Coast Guard.

An amendment to the National Historic Preservation Act in 2000 made it possible for people such as Jurewiscz to bid for eligible lighthouses if the Coast Guard could not find a state, city or non-profit organization to take over ownership and upkeep.