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The Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association showed up in force at the recent Great Lakes Lighthouse Festival to force the Republic of Boon Island to rejoin the fifty states. In lieu of that, they were prepared to take prisoners and force the corrupt government of Boon Island to move the tallest lighthouse in Maine to Michigan where again it would be part of the 50 states, as well as turned into a popular tourist attraction in the Straits of Mackinac.
Dick Moehl, president of the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association, who showed up in his patriotic Uncle Sam uniform, was
prepared to force the issue. Right on the convention floor of the ninth annual Great Lakes Lighthouse Festival, which was held this past October in Alpena, Michigan, Moehl and his group captured Republic of Boon Island citizen Kathleen Finnegan and took her prisoner.
Moehl, who was once coerced into joining the Republic of Boon Island as Admiral of the Air Force, was exiled from the island earlier in the year when it was discovered that he and his cohorts were secretly planning to steal the lighthouse in the middle of the night and move it to Michigan.
The Great Lakes Lighthouse Festival incident ended in a temporary truce when hostage Finnegan agreed to do her best to solicit new citizens for the Republic of Boon Island to help raise money to restore the lighthouse. However, as part of that agreement, Moehl insisted that a document be drawn up that stated once the money was raised to save Boon Island Lighthouse, the Republic would be dissolved and again join the 50 states.
Although Finnegan agreed, and she and Moehl parted as friends in lighthouse preservation, she felt sure that the rest of the corrupt officials of the Republic of Boon Island would only dissolve the Republic if Boon Island would become the 51st state, something she expects Moehl and the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association to help with.
To learn more about the Republic of Boon Island or purchase a citizenship for $25.00 you can visit www.LighthouseFoundation.org or call 207-646-0245.
This story appeared in the
December 2004 edition of Lighthouse Digest Magazine. The print edition contains more stories than our internet edition, and each story generally contains more photographs - often many more - in the print edition. For subscription information about the print edition, click here.
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