{"id":44192,"date":"2025-09-27T16:27:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44192"},"modified":"2025-09-27T16:27:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:27:27","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-global-doorstep-volunteers-across-north-america-help-repair-crumbling-lighthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44192","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the Global doorstep\u2019: Volunteers across North America help repair crumbling lighthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On an uninhabited island just off the community of Westport, Nova Scotia, a part of the community&#8217;s past is quietly disintegrating but volunteers will soon arrive from across North America, to bring that structure back to life, reports CBC News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>CBC News writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Peter Island lighthouse was built in 1909 to guide ships through treacherous tides and thick fog at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy. \u2018The lighthouse is such an iconic looking lighthouse on this rugged island\u2026 It really doesn&#8217;t get more beautiful&#8230;\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 Since 2015, volunteers with a community group called Save an Island Lighthouse have been working to preserve the structure\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first phase of the work will involve replacing rotten sections of wood and weather-proofing the structure. New shingles and fresh paint is part of the plan for next year\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/volunteers-from-across-north-america-giving-crumbling-n-s-lighthouse-a-facelift-1.7563241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an uninhabited island just off the community of Westport, Nova Scotia, a part of the community&#8217;s past is quietly disintegrating but volunteers will soon arrive from across North America, to bring that structure back to life, reports CBC News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,30,23,29],"class_list":["post-44192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-environment","tag-expertise","tag-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44193,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44192\/revisions\/44193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}