GREAT LAKES REGIONAL LIGHTHOUSE CONFERENCE
The Michigan Lighthouse Alliance held a conference on lighthouse preservation from June 11 through June 13, 2008, in Traverse City, Michigan. Conference sessions covered all aspects of owning, restoring and preserving historic lighthouses.

MARITIME HERITAGE CONFERENCE
The triennial meeting of the American Lighthouse Coordinating Committee was held during the very successful 2007 Maritime Heritage Conference October 9-12 in San Diego, California. Officers were elected for the next three years, an evening reception at Cabrillo National Monument and Old Point Loma Lighthouse featured the presentation of three Holland Awards, and the conference lighthouse track included three days of highly informative sessions in spectacular meeting spaces -- the hold of the 1863 clipper ship Star of India and the upper deck of the historic San Francisco Bay ferry boat Berkeley.

ALCC members meeting in the Captain's Salon and wardroom of the clipper ship elected Don Terras of Grosse Point Light Station, a Chicago area national historic site, as president. Kathy Fleming of the St. Augustine Lighthouse Museum was elected first vice president, American Lighthouse Foundation executive director Bob Trapani was elected second vice president, lighthouse researcher Candace Clifford was elected secretary and United States Lighthouse Society executive director Jeff Gales was elected treasurer.

The Holland Award, the nation's top lighthouse preservation honor, was presented at Point Loma to Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association president Richard Moehl, lighthouse preservation veteran Cullen Chambers of Tybee Island Light Station and outgoing ALCC president Mike Vogel of Buffalo.

The 2010 triennial conference will be held in Baltimore in 2010. Preservation Meetings & Workshops Details of upcoming ALCC preservation training or technology workshops, such as the National Lighthouse Lens Workshop sponsored in partnership with the National Park Service and the Buffalo Lighthouse Association, will be posted here. No new workshops are currently scheduled.

Additional information on historic preservation and technical guidelines and bulletins is available from the National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center in Frederick, Maryland . The HPTC web site is http://www.nps.gov/training/HPTC Valuable resource material and information on materials and techniques has been complied in a lengthy National Park Service publication, published as a large binder known as the Lighthouse Preservation Handbook. The handbook is not currently in print, but an on-line version is accessible through the following link: http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/handbook.htm