From hamptonroads.com:
Year after year, the Bodie Island Lighthouse has been in line to get funding for a complete restoration. Each time, it has been shoved aside.
Shut out once again in the federal budget that was signed by President Bush on Dec. 26, the 136-year-old tower is showing its age, with corroding metalwork, broken windows and […]

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From hamptonroads.com:
The base of the Bodie Island Lighthouse
will open to the public Tuesday for the first time in three years,
thanks to a $100,000 emergency restoration project recently completed,
the National Park Service announced Friday.
The lighthouse closed to visitors in 2004 after chunks of cast iron
fell from the balcony and top window, the park service said […]

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bodie–6, originally uploaded by cdawson.
Here is a picture I wanted to share with everyone.

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