Beavertail Lighthouse
From Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ at GoLocal24.com
The Coast Guard has decided that it no longer needs famous Beavertail Lighthouse, on a dramatic headland in Jamestown. So the government is offering the site for free to other federal, state and local government agencies and to nonprofit agencies.
How about turning it into a museum of coastal weather and ecology with lots of scientific and historical information, especially what can be illustrated? One thinks of hurricanes and other big storms and of the animals that frequent the New England coast as well as plants, such as kelp forests. Perhaps the University of Rhode Island’s famed Graduate School of Oceanography could be brought into the project.
