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Its once and future glory
Private group to replace lantern room
after 75-year absence
By David Still II
dstill@barnstablepatriot.com
PHOTOS COURTESY KEN MORTON
FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES (above)
- This photo from the National Archives
serves as a good example of what the
restored lighthouse will look like with the
replica 10-sided lantern room installed.
The photo also shows the tower before the
full steel banding was installed to keep its
bricks from shifting.
READY TO BLOOM - This could be
the last season that beach plums will
bloom in the shadow of the decapitated
Sandy Neck Lighthouse. A private group
associated with the American Lighthouse
Foundation received approval last week
to replace the lantern room atop the
tower with an exact cast iron replica.
The work is expected to be completed by
mid-October.
The Sandy Neck Lighthouse
has spent fully one half of its
life as a misnomer.
It's had no light.
That will change early this
fall with the planned restora-
tion of the lantern room with
a spot-on cast iron replica.
Last week, the Barnstable
Old King's Highway Historic
District Committee approved
plans to replace the lantern,
providing the last approval
before abuilding permit could
be issued.
This year marks the 75,h
year since the originallantern
was removed and dumped in
the harbor for disposal. The
decommissioned light was re-
placed by an automated bea-
con atop a skeleton tower.
As restoration commit-
tee chairman Ron Jansson
told the OKH last week, the
project is not only to return
a lantern to the top of the
tower, but to preserve the
lighthouse.
The committee wants the
work to be completed in time
for next year's 150th
anniver-
sary of the Sandy Neck light.
The restoration committee is
affiliated with the American
Lighthouse Foundation and
benefits from its nonprofit
status.
The Sandy Neck group will
benefit from arecent Michigan
restoration project.
The Great Lakes Lighthouse
Keepers Association recently
replaced a similar 10-sided
lantern on the St. Helena
Lighthouse near the Straits
of Mackinac in northern Lake
Michigan. As the Michigan
lantern was built to the same
government specifications as
the Sandy Neck light, it's an
exact match. The Michigan
group has agreed to let the
Sandy Neck restoration group
borrow the molds for its cast-
ings. With the OKH approval
in hand, Jansson said that a
contract for construction will
soon be completed and work
will begin.
Funding for the project
has come 100 percent from
private donations , according
to Jansson and the owner of
the property, Ken Morton. A
generous donation from the
Lyndon E Lorusso Founda-
tion helped push the financial
effort over the top for this
portion of the project. Jans-
son said there 's still a need
for about $100,000 more to
complete the restoration of
the Oil House and other out-
buildings associated with the
light, aswell as the creation of
a perpetual care fund.
The fabrication of the final
parts will be done in place by
members of the restoration
committee , hoisting and in-
stalling the individual pieces.
Jansson said a glazier will then
be brought in to install the
one-quarter-inch-thick glassto
complete the lantern room.
"Wethink it will be ahistoric
moment ," Jansson told the
OKH committee. "We hope
the town and public will par-
ticipate. "
Jansson saidthat there have
been preliminary conversa-
tions with the Coast Guard
to allow the restored light
to be used as a private aid
to navigation. That decision
as well as what type of optic
would be used are up to the
Coast Guard. If a light is al-
lowed, Jansson said, it would
be shielded from homes within
the cottage colony.
There would not be regular
tours of the lighthouse, which
is private property.
Shortly after the Patriot first
published plans to restore the
light in November 2004, the
paper received a call from an
owner within the Sandy Neck
cottage colony who termed
the project , "The dumbest
thing I've ever heard."
Jansson said that he was
aware of some opposition ,
but none materialized at last
week's meeting.
Morton said that the idea
to restore the light has been
around for about 10 years ,
but it was only in the last four
that action wastaken to make
it happen.
A Long-Time Connection
The story that Jansson tells
of a Barnstable Harbor boat
ride with his grandfather
more than 50 years ago helps
explain his commitment to
the project.
His grandfather,whose friend
talked him out of a trip to
America aboard the Titanic
(his name is on the passenger
manifest I, alwayshad afondness
for the sea, which was among
the attractions Cape Cod and
Barnstable Village held.
On a boat trip around the
harbor when he was perhaps
5, Jansson said he asked his
grandfather , "Why is that
lighthouse broken?"
The response came, "I don't
know, but maybe when you get
older you can fix it."
And so it came to pass that
Jansson headed up the Sandy
Neck Lighthouse Restoration
Committee.
Those interested in contributing to
the Sandy Neck Lighthouse Restoration
Committee can do so at P0. Box 147.
Barnstable. MA 02630.
SANDY NECK LIGHT
Proj ect scatters
materials , belongings
By Edward F. Maroney
emaroney@barnstablepatnot.com
A manmade disaster struck
Hyannis West Elementary School
last weekend ,
"I was shocked and thoroughly
disgusted ," said 3rd grade teacher
Gaile Callo. "It looked like down-
town Baghdad."
What Callo was looking at Mon-
day morning was the school's gym,
littered with the piled-up contents
of the school's classrooms jumbled
together. Hy West teachers had
been told they would have several
days this week to finish organizing
and packaging classroom materials
for temporary storage in the gym
during an asbestos removal project ,
but the school department' s custo-
dians jumped the gun Saturday.
Having finished work at Hyannis
East early, the crew moved on
to the village 's other elementary
school, with the results that out-
raged faculty.
Longtime physical education/
health teacher Lorraine Dunnett
join ed Callo at Tuesday night's
school committee meeting to say
she spent the better part of Mon-
day "going through the trash bags,
looking for personal belongings I
need for summer."
In one bag, Dunnett said, she
found a soccer ball, four parts of a
3rd and 4"' grade curriculum ("ru-
ined" ) , and "one of my sneakers "
"Shame on those who did this,"
Callo said, "and even more shame
on those who (allowed it)."
Asst. Supt. Glen Anderson said
the administration was "concerned
as much as you folks are" about
the "massive miscommunica-
tion." He pledged to help teachers
search for their belongings.
"We will make it right," said
interim Supt. Tom McDonald.
The mixup overshadowed in
some ways the announcement of
the system's first facilities man-
ager, whose job will range from
coordinating the clean-up efforts
in Hyannis East, Hyannis West.
Centerville and other schools to
engaging in long-range planning
for Barnstable 's building needs.
The incoming superintendent ,
Dr. Patricia Grenier, announced
she had hired Joe Slominski, the
town's structures and grounds su-
pervisor. A member of the town's
Green Team is known as a "do-it-
in-house " type.
Zeal results in raw deal for Hy West teachers
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