Come October, when summer is history and North Carolina's Outer Banks are again feeling fall's first chills, a fresh light will again shine through the fog and the sometimes dreary shorter days. If all goes as planned the Bodie Island lighthouse, long closed to the public, will again be open, making it the fourth lighthouse on the Outer Banks to be open to public access. What a fine thing that is for North Carolina.
Bodie was built in 1872, but except for a weekend more than 20 years ago, it's been closed to the public, because it was a working lighthouse and then fell into disrepair. Now part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore and on the National Register of Historic Places, the lighthouse is on the north side of Oregon Inlet.
Restoration was delayed because of a money shortage in the National Park Service, but it's set to resume next month. And then ... we'll let our little light shine.
