What's to become of our lighthouses, strikingly elegant and reassuring
on coastal cliff tops and rocky outcrops? Soaring maintenance costs
and cheaper alternatives threaten their future.
Lonely is the lighthouse keeper doggedly tending the light and
heroically on hand for shipwreck rescues - or that is the romantic
vision. Routine maintenance, regular weather reports and interminable
paperwork is closer to reality.
Memories of war can be represented in many ways that seek to create
footprints or places that allow the past and the future to intersect.
The special place that the 28 Maori attalion holds in the country's
heritage is no more honoured than in the marae dining rooms along
the North Island's East Coast.
New owners of a slice of Coromandel Peninsula history have set
about regenerating the optimism with which the Kikowhakarere by
Hoise was built. Learn about a labour of love.