The Homestead Resort Blog

On Saturday, May 30, 2009, the National Park Service (NPS) invites you to officially celebrate the relighting of the South Manitou Island Lighthouse.  Thanks to a partnership with Manitou Islands Memorial Society, Manitou Island Transit, and Electro-Optics Technology, Inc., Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore installed a replica third-order Fresnel lens in the completely refurbished lantern room of the lighthouse last fall.  Although the light was tested at that time, it was too late in the season to host  a formal ceremony.

Starting at 9pm at the Maritime Museum in Glen Haven, a National Park Service Ranger will present a half-hour interpretive program about the history of the Manitou Passage and the shipwrecks that made it necessary to install a lighthouse to guide mariners through its hazardous waters.  Following the program, Superintendent Dusty Shultz and representatives from the partner groups will provide brief remarks and recognize the numerous donors who made this project a reality.  Light refreshments will be served and once it becomes dark enough, the light will be illuminated for everyone on shore to see and enjoy.

The Maritime Museum at Sleeping Bear Point is located on Glen Haven Road, one half mile west of the Cannery in Glen Haven, an historic village three miles west of Glen Arbor.

For more information on the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, call 231.326.5134.

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