Lantern Tour of the Indian River Life-Saving Station
Location: Indian River Life-Saving Station, Delaware Seashore State Park
April 10,2010
Begins: 7:00 PM
Delaware Seashore State Park invites you to take a step back in time. Over one hundred years ago, the surfment of the United States Life-Saving Service patrolled the beaches of the Delaware Coast every night, scanning the waters for signs of ships in distress. The Indian River Life-Saving Station Museum is offering a unique program that will allow participants to walk the surfmen's beat, patrolling the same beaches and scanning the same waters the surfment would have covered a century ago.
The crew at the Life-Saving Station will conduct an evening lantern tour of the museum on Saturday, April 10th. The tour will be led by an interpreter dressed in the uniform of the turn-of-the-century Life-Saving Service patrol. Learn about shipwrecks, surfmen's duties, and the changing Delaware coast over time. Afterward, the tour will head out to the beach with their lanterns to patrol the Delaware coast. Live the history of the United States Life-Saving Service while enjoying a stroll in the sand in Delaware Seashore State Park.
The program fee is $7.50 per person and pre-registration is required. Dress for the weather!
To register, call 302-227-6991.
