When the U.S. Government put the Hooper Island Lighthouse in Chesapeake Bay up for auction the opening bid was set at a mere $15,000, reports the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC]. After all, said the Associated Press, it was in pretty bad shape. The AP wrote that, “The rusting lighthouse known locally as the ‘sparkplug’ has an outer ladder but no nearby dock for a boat to mo...