Lighthouse Hats

Lighthouse lovers plan trips around towers. The United States Lighthouse Society sells a passport with room for 60 stamps, and serious enthusiasts fill it one lighthouse at a time, then send the book to the society's headquarters in Hansville, Washington to have it verified. Two photographers known as the Lighthouse Hunters have photographed 1,616 lighthouses in the US and Canada, and for years took two or three lighthouse vacations a year. The hobby spills into the house too: figurines, lamps, bookends and cookie jars make lighthouses a broad gift category, which is the joke behind MY LIVING ROOM HAS 30 LIGHTHOUSES AND NO OCEAN. A Lighthouse Depot press article offers the fan's motto, that people who like lighthouses are nice people, and PEOPLE WHO LIKE LIGHTHOUSES ARE NICE PEOPLE wears it. LIGHTHOUSE and LIGHTHOUSE LOVER are the plain badges, and HONORARY LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER is for the volunteer with no uniform. The rest are the hobby's own jokes: climbing a tower for a view of fog, the loudest member of the preservation society, and the plan to move into a lighthouse and ignore everyone. Place-name lighthouse hats are easy to find; this page is for the people who collect the towers themselves. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. MY LIVING ROOM HAS 30 LIGHTHOUSES AND NO OCEAN and I WANT TO LIVE IN A LIGHTHOUSE AND IGNORE EVERYONE each come in two colorways.