You heard that right, the Morris Island Lighthouse will be lit for 4 hours on Saturday night Oct 1, 2016. In celebration of the 140th anniversary of her first lighting SCE&G has graciously offered material and time to install lights in the lantern room. At the Old Coast Guard Station there will be a couple of short speeches and some local music starting at 7 then by 7:30 we will flip the switch and light the old gal one more time.
Save The Light will also soon be announcing the next phase of restoration work. We’re not done yet and we still need your help. The Time is Now, Save The Light www.savethelight.org
no sir…part of our agreement with the Coast Guard was that we will only have her lit for 4 hours that night…lights will only be on the land side of the lighthouse too, for obvious reasons [:0]
Dang, a small generator and a drop cord would be easier! Or just fully charged batteries and a drop cord! Well, I guess if they are doing it for free and you don’t have to help lug the stuff out there:wink:
Dang, a small generator and a drop cord would be easier! Or just fully charged batteries and a drop cord! Well, I guess if they are doing it for free and you don’t have to help lug the stuff out there:wink:
they set all this stuff up weeks ago and run it via an app on their phone…we could not risk the day of the event blowing 50 knots and not being able to get somebody up in the lighthouse to crank up the generator or turn on the battery switch…
