>> Click to enlarge << High school Color Guard from the Marine Academy ... Photo by: Lenny Fern

New Jersey’s historic Sandy Hook Lighthouse recently celebrated its 250th birthday with a big party. The patriotic party featured costumed living history exhibits, a fife and drum group, lighthouse tours, a birthday cake, musket drills, Colonial-era children’s games, Colonial marching music, cannon fire, and lighthouse history presentations.

>> Click to enlarge << The lantern room railings were decorated with ... Photo by: Al King III

>> Click to enlarge << Part of the crowd for the ceremony of the Sandy ... Photo by: Al King III

>> Click to enlarge << The Fifes & Drums of the Old Barracks, Trenton, ... Photo by: Lenny Fern

>> Click to enlarge << Many folks got their U.S. Lighthouse Society ... Photo by: Al King III

>> Click to enlarge << Lighthouse tours included close-up views of the ... Photo by: Lenny Fern

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