“Our hearts were beating with excitement as we saw the float carrying the model of Little River Lighthouse approach us,” said Tim Harrison, who along with other lighthouse volunteers, were anxiously waiting to see the lighthouse float for the first time at Cutler Maine’s Annual 4^th of July Parade.

Little River Lighthouse is located in the harbor, on an island, a short distance from the mainland in the Village of Cutler, a small fishing community in ‘Downeast’ Maine,  “Where it is next to impossible to keep a secret, so we knew about the lighthouse float, but we didn’t know what it was going to look like,

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Attached to the front of the truck that was pulling the Little River Lighthouse float was a large

banner promoting the Friends of Little River Lighthouse and the American Lighthouse Foundation.

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Some of the Cutler children rode on the

Little River Lighthouse float in Cutler’s

4th  of July Parade. Former Little River

Lighthouse keeper Terry Rowden made

the model of the lighthouse.