The “New” Friends of the Fenwick Island Lighthouse was established in summer of 2007 when the State of Delaware, the legal owner of the lighthouse, asked Winnie Lewis to organize a new group of volunteers to continue the devoted and diligent guardianship begun by the original “Friends of the Lighthouse” with Paul Pepper in 1982.  Winnie Lewis, herself being a granddaughter of a former lighthouse keeper, accepted the challenge.