America’s original and largest lighthouse festival returns Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 15-16, when the 2011 Lighthouse Challenge of New Jersey visits the Absecon Lighthouse.
ATLANTIC CITY — America’s original and largest lighthouse festival returns Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 15-16, when the 2011 Lighthouse Challenge of New Jersey visits the Absecon Lighthouse. The event helps raise awareness and much-needed funds for all of New Jersey’ historic sites and museums.
Eleven historic lighthouses, two life-saving stations and two museums are all taking part in this annual event that “challenges” you to visit as many of the states historic beacons as you can over one weekend. Visitors may buy a souvenir booklet for $1 and then get a free lighthouse stamp placed in it at each stop along the way.
The Challenge is free, requires no registration or signup, and participants can begin at any of the 15 locations. Most of the lighthouses will be available to climb for a small fee and several will offer rare opportunities to climb after dark.
Atlantic City-based watercolor artist Donna Elias created the artwork for this year’s official Challenge souvenir booklet, stamps, posters and T-shirts. Elias is well known by lighthouse enthusiasts as the artist behind the Great American Lighthouses Collection, a series of over 300 paintings celebrating historic beacons nationwide. Her paintings and prints, which also adorn several home decor lines, are sold worldwide.
Elias is also well known in lighthouse circles for her philanthropic work and was happy to donate her art to the Lighthouse Challenge. Elias will be stationed at her hometown beacon, Absecon Lighthouse, (31 South Rhode Island Ave. in Atlantic City) both days, from 9am-7pm Saturday and 9am-6pm Sunday. Challenge posters, T-shirts and other collectibles will be shown and offered for sale, as well as an exhibit of other works by Elias.
For more information, call the Absecon Lighthouse at (609) 449-1360.
Now that the turkey is carved, all thoughts turn to Christmas and, of course, lighthouse climbing. Absecon Lighthouse in Atlantic City has lined up a couple of holiday events for families that offer climbs of the lighthouse for a great look at Christmas decorations around the city.
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