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  • Old Barney beams brightly nightly once more

    01/14/2009 8:23:00 PM PST · by Coleus · 7 replies · 343+ views
    starledger ^ | January 02, 2009 | MARYANN SPOTO
    For Margery and John Geddes, a typical walk with their three dogs often ends at the icon of their neighborhood, the towering Barnegat Lighthouse. But now, something has changed about Old Barney, the red-and-white icon that has stood perched at the northernmost tip of Long Beach Island since 1858. Its beacon extinguished 82 years ago, the 163-foot brick structure now flashes an intense beam of light out the glass windows. Last night it was lit up 150 years to the day it first started guiding ships to safety along a treacherous point of land. The Geddeses joined thousands of people...