A speaker will shed light on the history of New Bedford’s lighthouses at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13. This will be the latest presentation of the historical lecture series at Fort Taber-Fort Rodman Military Museum and Veterans Memorial, 1000c Rodney French Boulevard, New Bedford.
Douglas Bingham will take those in attendance back to the 1990s, when all three of New Bedford’s historic lighthouses were dark and in dire need of maintenance and restoration.
After all three lights were placed on the doomsday list, Mr. Brightman and other lighthouse preservationists brought the issue to the Office of the Mayor. With assistance from the United States Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Office and aid from the American Lighthouse Foundation and the New Bedford Water and Sewer Department, all three lighthouses received the attention they needed.
Mr. Brightman has been recognized and was honored by the United States Coast Guard Historians Office in Washington, D.C. in the fall of 1999 for his development and assembly of a large archive of information on the history of the U.S. Lighthouse Service and the United States Coast Guard Lightships from 1819 to 1985, when the last three USCG lightships were decommissioned.
The talk is free and open to the public. There is ample free parking.
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