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2001
Collectors
Family Reunion:
Sunday,
October 7, 2001
Sunday. Our last day. After more than 2 years of planning it was time to say
good-bye. Breakfast
With Bill As we entered the Harborside Ball Room for
our final meal together we were handed the 4th of the blue velveteen pouches
-- this one containing a thumbnail of Hooper Strait Lighthouse. Collectors took some
time to look over the items on display. Some will be awarded as door prizes,
others through an opportunity drawing and still others through an auction
before the morning is over. But
before the breakfast can begin, our Webmaster John Chidester uses the
microphone to make some announcements about his lighthouse tour to Hooper
Strait in the afternoon and about the tour on Monday to several Delaware
and Virginia lighthouses. But he also uses the mike
to call up Bill, Nancy, Kim and Maureen as well as collector Darlene Cook
of Washington state. Scores of collectors have been secretly working on a
10th Anniversary Harbour Lights Scrapbook to present to Harbour Lights.
Some collectors worked on their pages before coming to the Reunion, others
worked on Thursday evening after dinner to put the final touches on their
pages.
Bill and Nancy (left) are
presented a scrapbook of memories from collectors reflecting their
experiences with Harbour Lights. Darlene Cook and our Webmaster John Chidester
(right) made the presentation on behalf of the participating
collectors. Bill is
wearing a unique cowboy hard hat that was worn during the move of
Cape Hatteras; it was later auctioned off. |
The photos of attendees with
Bill and Nancy taken on Thursday were ready for pickup on Sunday
morning. |
Gifts,
Auctions and Opportunity Drawing
The 'Bill and Kim Show' and
their 'dueling microphones' was the highlight of the morning -
except, of course for the items they gave and auctioned to
collectors. |
The door prizes included several
retired and rare Harbour Lights plus items such display samples
and paint masters and a Cape Hatteras stein and tote bag that was never produced. No tickets were required to win
door prizes. |
Collectors look over the items available in the Opportunity
Drawing, hoping their name is called before the one item they want
is gone. |
Items available to bid on
included a one-of-a-kind Macquarie Australia lighthouse sculpture, CREW
shirt from the Providence 1998 Reunion, a #2 New Point Loma CA, a
lighthouse bulb an original Cape Hatteras 102 mold master from
Canada and 2 Harbour Lights watch production samples. |
Mark Sherman's original
watercolor of Hooper Strait MD Lighthouse was among the very top
items in the door prize drawing. |
Kim reads the winner while Bill
takes the next winner's ticket from the hand of Hannah Hetzler.
The kids helped with drawing winning tickets. |
8-year old Hannah Wagner of
Indiana was wowed by Steve Ervin's painting of Cape Hatteras with
Eagle and Storm. She had her choice of the remaining items when her name was called for a
door prize. She picked out Steve's painting, Dad Mark helped her
hold it. Hannah has been to all three Reunions. |
Betty O'Brien of South Carolina,
was the high bidder on a very unique original Cape Hatteras
master. Probably the only one produced in Canada. |
Esther Andrews, Kim &
Blair's daughter, presents Ken Reese of Maryland with his very
unique unpainted Burrows Island WA with the OR error. |
Fred Kuhlman of California was
the high bidder for a one-of-a-kind Macquarie Australia sculpture
that featured an outbuilding. |
Over $40,000 was
raised through the Opportunity Drawing and Auction. One half the amount
will be donated to American Red Cross for the benefit of those who were
impacted by the terrorist attacks on September 11. The balance will be
donated to the specific lighthouses that are being supported and restored
by Harbour Lights Collector Clubs around the US.
And then it was over. Thanks to
all. |
Farewell
The Reunion was our baby and we loved it!. We
hope those who attended liked it as much as we did. You are our family and
we feel a part of yours. Thanks for being there and
supporting Harbour Lights! Bill & Nancy Younger
Kim
Andrews
And the whole Harbour Lights crew! P.S.
We'd love to hear from you about the Reunion.
Please click here to send an
us an email.
Photographs by Paul L. Brady &
John Chidester except as noted.
Copyright 2001 Harbour Lights
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