How do you move a lighthouse?
Last spring, as it appeared that Sankaty Lighthouse was indeed going to be moved to safer ground, kids in the Nantucket Elementary School were asked to draw pictures of how they imagined a lighthouse

WILLOW KANE, 4TH GRADE, "PEOPLE GIVING THE LIGHTHOUSE A HORSEY RIDE."

could (or should) be moved.

What came back in these drawings were not only some good ideas, but some fanciful ones as well, proving once more that young minds are creative, un-rigid and nearly borderless.

Students created almost 40 drawings, a few of which are displayed here; these young thinkers now offer us a primer into the proper business of lighthouse relocation

The 'Sconset Trust, which has taken on the beast (or the butterfly, or the aliens, or the skateboards) of moving the lighthouse, will display these drawings and all the others at the Atheneum later this month.

- Rob Benchley, Nantucket Independent photographer

JOSEPH TALLMAN, 5TH GRADE "MUSCLE MAN MOVING LIGHTHOUSE" KENDRICK MONACO, 5TH GRADE, "THIS IS A LADYBUG CARRYING A LIGHTHOUSE." NICHOLAS MISURELLI, 1ST GRADE "THE LIGHTHOUSE HAS GONE TO MARS, AND THE SANKATY LIGHTHOUSE SPACE STATION IS ON MARS NOW" TIERNEY GODDARD, 1ST GRADE, "THE SUNSET LIGHTHOUSE" BROOKE CAMPBELL, 3RD GRADE "THE BOTTLE LIGHTHOUSE" JACOB HALFORD, 5TH GRADE "I DREW A LIGHTHOUSE ON TOP OF A FEDEX TRUCK." ALEXANDER WOODLEY, 5TH GRADE "ON THE MOVE: FLOOR IT!" DAKOTA DRAGON, 3RD GRADE "SPACE: SENDING THE LIGHTHOUSE FROM NANTUCKET" JAKE LEGGE, 4TH GRADE "THERE'S A NEW GAMBLER IN TOWN - WELCOME TO LAS VEGAS"