"Graves Island Light brings in bids of up to $738,000" by Joseph P. Kahn | Globe Staff, August 14, 2013
When the Globe reported two weeks ago on the public auction of Graves Island Light Station, the top bid for the 110-year old lighthouse was $101,000. Since then, 10 active bidders have upped that number to $738,000, nearly double the previous lighthouse-sale record.
I gue$$ $ome people have nothing better to do with money.
The auction is scheduled to close early Wednesday, but a new bid submitted online overnight, in minimum increments of $5,000, would automatically reset the auction’s 24-hour clock.
Why the surge in interest? Publicity aside....
See: Graves Island lighthouse not your average fixer-upper
Front page can't hurt.
To anyone whose bid for Graves Light fall short, take heart. As of this month, the GSA is offering Gay Head Light on Martha’s Vineyard to any nonprofit or municipal agency that wants it. If none does, the 214-year old lighthouse will go up for public auction....
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Also see: Boston Globe Beacon
MSM Monitor Finally Sees the Maine Light
I $aw it, I $aw it! I gue$$ no one bought it.
