This is the entrance door to the Lighthouse.The wreath was placed there during a memorial service we had on the island to remember Elizabeth Satterfield. Elizabeth was a local young lady who lost her life in a automobile accident. Her parents requested that instead of flowers that donations be made to the Sand Island Lighthouse Preservation Group to help save the Lighthouse.Rev. Robert Mathews wrote a beautiful prayer just for the service. This Prayer was recorded and will be available soon on this web site for listening.
If you look close in this photo you can see that the mortor is eroded and needs to be repaired. This damage is unique in that it runs from the lower west side up towards the middle of the tower extending most easterly at the midpoint of the tower then curves back towards the western side of the tower close to the top. This gives it a half moon shape extending from the top to the bottom that reaches from the North to the South side of the Lighthouse. This is the side that Sand Island is located on.and during hurricanes sand has blasted this side of the tower removing mortor from the joints.You can, on close inspection see damage inflicted into the granite around the windows/doorway. The corners are actually rounded off. This damage is present on both the South and North openings but only on the western sides.