Thanks to These People...

...this site, and this book project are possible. Without the help of every one of the individuals and organizations listed, this project would not be the success that I consider it to be thus far. A project such as this does not complete itself. Nor can the author work alone. It requires the time, efforts, knowledge, help and encouragement of many people, including historians, preservationists, librarians, editors, descendants of keepers, patient family members and friends, and many more special people. Some such people and organizations follow, in no particular order, and I owe many thanks to them for their assistance:

Gayle E. Haines, past President of the Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society, Board Member for the National Lighthouse Center & Museum, and President of Lighthouse Safaris, Inc.

Cliff Benfield, Director at the Horton Point lighthouse, Board Member for the National Lighthouse Center & Museum

Merlon Wiggin and his wife Isabelle, East End Seaport Museum and Marine Foundation

Tom Ambrosio, Executive Director at the Montauk Lighthouse Museum

Pam Setchell, President of Save Huntington's Lighthouse

Joshua Ruff, F. Henry Berlin History Curator at The Museums at Stony Brook

Tom Taylor, President of the Florida Lighthouse Association, Historian at the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse, and lighthouse author

Bob Mackreth, Park Historian at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore

Ann Caneer, Executive Director of the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse Museum

Phin and Bunny Horton, descendants Barnabas Horton, upon whose land the Horton Point light resides

Donn Rhodes, Artist and genuine human being

Bruce Lambert, NY Times

Bill Bleyer, Newsday and Long Island Boating World

Bob Douglass, Douglass Marine Services

Erica Krzyminski, Certain Books

Louis Anderson, former substitute keeper at Lloyd Harbor and Cold Spring Harbor

Arthur Bouder, Jr., Son of former Lloyd Harbor keeper Arthur Bouder

Captain Dave Brennan and the crew of the Greenport-based fishing boat Peconic Star II

Don Talmage, Cedar Point County Park in East Hampton

Alex Wade, Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy

Henry Stephenson, Project Director for the National Lighthouse Center and Museum, and President of the NY Chapter of the US Lighthouse Society

Bill Baker, President and CEO of WNET/Channel 13

Ken Black, Shore Village Museum

James W. Claflin, Kenrick A. Claflin & Son. www.ultranet.com/~jclaflin/

Brunwyn Hannon and Deb Willet, Long Island Studies Institute

Barbara Forde, Long Island Maritime Museum

Mitzi Caputo, Huntington Historical Society

Karen Martin, Three Village Historical Society

BMC Al Williams, USCG Ret.

Winnie McKenna

Bob and Pat Sisler

Barb Kepple

Sally Spier Stassi, the Historic New Orleans Collection's Williams Research Center

Jim Crowley, fellow lighthouse-author-to-be

Sue Habib, John Jermain Library in Sag Harbor

Dorothy King, East Hampton Library

The Patchogue-Medford Library

The Emma S. Clark Memorial Library

The Port Washington Public Library

The Sag Harbor Whaling Museum

The Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum

The United States Coast Guard Historian's Office

The National Archives and Records Administration

Candace Clifford, National Park Service

The Merchant Marine Academy Library in King's Point

Aram Terchunian

Kathleen at Dr. Kleiner's office

Rich and Elaine Brausch, Three Village/Setauket Kitchen and Bath

Laura Jean Crownover

Judy Carpenter, great-granddaughter of John Anderson, who was a keeper at Montauk Point,  Cedar Island and other lighthouses.

Cathy Robbins, great-great-granddaughter of Execution Rock keepers Charles Sherman and Mary Lucy Edwards Sherman

Pat Shapiro

Sue Forestiero

Mike Seewald, Village of Old Field Lighthouse Committee

Bob Scroope, East End Seaport Lighthouse Committee

SA Bryan Mastrangelo, Eaton's Neck USCG station

Ralph and Doris Pfister

Art and Sandy Price

Katherine Mancini

Nick Mancini

Diane Mancini

My Aunt Jean and Uncle Ben

My Aunt Mary

My brothers Louis, Henry and Bill and sister Judy

My mother Helen

The members of the Long Island Lighthouses e-mail list

And everyone who has visited this site and taken a moment to write me a note.

My apologies to anyone I may have missed.

Thanks, everyone. Never hesitate to ask me to return the favor. :-)

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