Endangered Lighthouses : The Plight of 50 American Lights and the Efforts Being Made to Save Them

Sounds like a bad horror flick, but, in fact, over the last 100 years, many American lighthouses have been lost -- destroyed by the forces of nature and those of mankind. They are the victims of erosion, storms, earthquakes, war, and government demolition. With each light that burns out, we lose more of our country's treasured maritime history -- tales of shipwrecks, heroic captains, mutiny at sea, countless lives saved. A number of organizations throughout the United States are working to save other lighthouses from the same fate. Endangered Lighthouses tells the stories of fifty American lighthouses in peril, including their history, the dangers they face, and what efforts are being made to save them.

Tim Harrison is the publisher and editor of Lighthouse Digest magazine, co-founder of the Lighthouse Depot in Wells, Maine, and president of the American Lighthouse Foundation Ray Jones is the author of American Lighthouses and eight books in Globe Pequot's Lighthouses Series. He is also co-author of Lost Lighthouses and Legendary Lighthouses, the companion to the popular PBS series