Lighthouse Lecture Series – Mark Hancock

Point Arena Lighthouse President & Executive Director Mark Hancock will present “10 Years on the Light Station.” This lecture will cover his 10 years of service as the caretaker of the 155-year-old Light Station.

This lecture will be a humorous, poignant, informative, and personal presentation of what it is like to run the 23-acre Light Station, his “stationary ship on the ocean.” The presentation will include a slideshow of the diverse, beautiful, inspiring, and fascinating things he has seen and experienced in his 10 years on the Light Station peninsula, woven together with stories of the people, animals, and experiences he has enjoyed. His 10 years on the Light Station have been the best job he’s ever had, and he can’t wait to share all the reasons why in his presentation!

Mark has had a varied 51-year career in the working world, with a wide variety of positions in building maintenance, customer service, software application development and implementation, sales, quality assurance, and other roles in both large corporations and small software startups. Prior to moving to Gualala full-time in 2011, he worked at Crocker Bank, Pacific Bell (where he met his wife of 41 years, Laverne), software startups Salestar and Spear Technologies, and Wells Fargo Bank Internet. After moving to Gualala, he became part of the coastal community by joining Gualala Arts as its Publicity Coordinator, a position he enjoyed for 4 years. When the Point Arena Lighthouse Keeper’s Inc. were looking for a new Executive Director in 2015, he applied and has been happily doing that job ever since.