For anyone familiar with Long Beach Island or the Jersey Shore in general, Barnegat Lighthouse is part of the culture. Today if this symbol were threatened by man or nature, we would expect the government to rush in and eliminate the threat.

But one problem with history is for the most part we know the outcome. If you watch a movie about the attack on Pearl Harbor or the maiden voyage of the Titanic, it’s hard to have a surprise ending.

Over the next weeks, try not to think about final outcome, but about the struggle 100 years ago to save “Old Barney”…