Many of the HOPE members have received a beautiful memorial cobblestone at the Children’s Memorial Lighthouse. It has brought a “forever piece of heaven” to them and their families.
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum, as steward for the Edgartown lighthouse, and as part of their restoration of the historic lighthouse, has created the Children’s Memorial at the Edgartown Lighthouse to memorialize children who have died.
Their website describes the lighthouse as “a place where people from all over can gather and celebrate the lives of these children and have a stone carved with a child’s name placed permanently at the base of the lighthouse, reflected forever in its light.
It is for children only, and we believe, it is the only one of its kind.
Lighthouses have always been symbols of safety, warning us away from danger and lighting our way back home. The Edgartown lighthouse is a working lighthouse, illuminating the darkness each and every night.
It seems so very appropriate to keep our children in its light and have the memory of their lives and love shine forth with that beacon, guiding us all in our search for safety, healing and peace.”