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Seaport museum to offer Bug Light tours this weekend

by Vera Chinese on May 21st, 2014
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Profits generated from the Seaport Museum's annual Maritime Festival are allocated to the restoration and maintenance of "Bug Light" (Long Beach Bar Lighthouse). Katharine Schroeder Photo

Take a cruise aboard the Peconic Star II and relive a part of North Fork maritime history.

East End Seaport Museum is offering cruises to the Orient Long Beach Bar Lighthouse — or Bug Light as it is know in these parts — this weekend.

The tour begins at the seaport museum before patrons board the 15-minute cruise. Participants can explore the off-shore lighthouse, take photos and enjoy the panoramic vistas.

The replica lighthouse was built in 1990, nearly 30 years after vandals burned the original building to the ground.

The two-hour tour is narrated by local maritime history expert Ted Webb and Bob Allen, the grandson of the late William Follett, the last lighthouse keeper.

Tours will be held on May 24 and May 25  from 4 to 6 p.m. Registration is encouraged and spots can be reserved by visiting eastendseaport.org.

Rates are $35 for an adult, $30 for East End Seaport Museum members, Southold Town residents and military members and $25 for children under 18.

 

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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