Peck’s folly in the Big Eddy

NARROWSBURG, NY – Art Peck, onetime Narrowsburg entrepreneur who started the Peck’s Market stores and who spends his time constructing custom-made motor and sail boats, built a nine-foot light house and erected it in the Bid Eddy.

He and friends George Krause, Charlie Scheibling and Charlie Whelan, who helped him build it, towed the lighthouse in a boat from the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River to the end of the gravel bar that suddenly appeared in the Big Eddy after the June floods.

The lighthouse is built from plywood.

“We did it for a light-hearted reason after the flood,” Peck said. “We thought it would be fun. I don’t expect that it will stand there for a long time, but will end up somewhere else.”

The light at the top is solar-powered. “It isn’t very bright since I didn’t have a more powerful light,” he said.