Our fundraising goal is $180,000. This will allow us to purchase all items documented to have been present in the station in 1900. From the cook stove and heating stoves, and books and beds, to a boat wagon and Lyle gun, and rain slickers and dinner plates-the items we need span all price ranges. Our campaign will be successful when people who are passionate about maritime history and historical interpretation will join with us to bring this significant building to life.

Photo by Robby McQueeney

Our campaign began with a special event at Old Harbor on June 28, 2010. National Seashore rangers, portraying the station keeper and surf men from 1902 presented their unique Beach Apparatus Drill. This is a dramatic portrayal of a rescue drill that was performed by the men of the US Lifesaving Service every Thursday at the turn of the 20^th century. Cape Cod National Seashore is the only place in the US presenting the full drill to 1902 standards, including a live firing of the Lyle Gun.

Similarly, when Old Harbor's furnishing project is complete, it will be the only historical life-saving station in the US completely furnished to bring to life this important aspect of maritime history that occurred along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

Since the launch of the campaign in February, 2010, we have generated more than $109,000 in pledges. This includes $22,000 in National Park Service funding to furnish the crew's quarters. Our acquisitions to date include:

Kitchen Stove
Photo by Betsy Richards

• Cook stove for the kitchen
• Heating stoves for mess room and crew's quarters
• 11 beds for crew's quarters, spare room, and keeper's room
• 7 hand-crafted chairs for the crew's quarters
• Lanterns, chamber pot, telephone, dominoes
• Pillows and blankets for crew's quarters
• Ash table and ten chairs for the mess room
• Desk for the Keeper's Room

We need your help! We are accepting donations of any amount. Giving levels, and the types of furnishings they support include:

• Under $100: Multiple contributions in this giving level would be combined to fund the purchase of such items as a Compass, Wash Basins and Rubber Boots.
• $100-$500: Contributions in this range would fund such items as Signal Flags and Staffs, a Ladder and Wreck Report Log.
• $500-$1000: Contributions at this level would fund such items as an Oak Bookcase, 18-foot Oar and Anchor and Line.
• $1000-$5000: Contributions in this range would purchase such items as a Barometer, a Library Case, Hawser Line and Cutter and Interpretive Panels.
• Over $5,000: Contributions in this giving level would fund items such as the Surfboat Wagon. Our most expensive items are reproductions of rare and unique historical items requiring custom construction. At this giving level there is the opportunity to specify an item you would like to fund. Please contact us for current needs.

You can donate to the Old Harbor Restoration Project NOW and safely donate with your credit card. Please put Old Harbor on the Designation line. Or you can send a check made out to FCCNS-OH and send it to our address at the bottom of this page.

In-Kind Donations: If you are an antiques dealer or if you frequent antique shops, you can help us locate needed items. If you find something that you think may be appropriate, please photograph it and send the photo and price to the Cape Cod National Seashore Curator, Hope Morrill for confirmation that the object is of correct type and vintage. If the object is appropriate you may purchase and donate it or make purchase arrangements with the park. Please contact the Curator for any questions about this opportunity.

Donor recognition: We are grateful for all donations, and understand the importance of donor recognition. We will recognize donors in the following ways:

• recognition in Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore publications and on our website
• event signage
• behind-the-scenes tours and special event opportunities
• at some giving levels, recognition on a permanent donor wall at a Cape Cod National Seashore visitor center.

The Cape Cod National Seashore donor recognition policy does not permit the naming of rooms or the labeling of objects with donor names. Please contact (info@fccns.org) if you have questions about donor recognition.