Lighthouse Map Designed
for Maine-Canada Lighthouse Challenge
The International Lighthouse
Challenge has released the image of the new map that will be used for
the “Lights Across the Border,” lighthouse event that will be held on
Saturday, August 9 in Cutler and Lubec, Maine, and Campobello Island
Canada.
The souvenir map will be given
to everyone who takes part on the semi self-guided tour of the area’s
five lighthouses. The colorful map, designed
by Cutler artist, Pam Britton, shows major roads and scenes of the area
and will be stamped at each lighthouse location. Five stamps are needed
to complete the “Challenge,” in order to get the Certificate of
Completion.
The
This colorful map, designed by
Cutler artist, Pam Britton, shows major roads and scenes of the area and
will be stamped at each lighthouse location.
“Challenge” will begin at Head
Harbour Lighthouse on Campobello Island and finish at Little River
Lighthouse in Cutler. The map, depicting all five “Challenge,” lighthouses
will also appear on the free tote bags that will be given to people as part
of their $15.00 registration fee for the event. It will also be on souvenir
items that will be available for purchase for the Lighthouse Challenge at
Head Harbour Lighthouse on Campobello Island, Little River Light in Cutler
and at West Quoddy Head Light in Lubec.
Although a large number of people
from outside of Maine have already signed up for the event, the three
nonprofit groups that have planned the Lighthouse Challenge hope that it
will also create local, home-grown, tourism to the area. “It is the perfect
event for local people to take part in, kind of a mini-vacation, but close
to home,” said Junia Lehman of the West Quoddy Head Light Keeper’s
Association in Lubec.
Although you won’t be able to climb
the tower at Mulholland Light on Campobello Island, the tower will be open
for a rare glimpse inside. However, the event will include a boat ride to
visit Little River Lighthouse, which is on an island in Cutler’s harbor and
a lighthouse that very few people have ever visited. West Quoddy Light in
Lubec and Head Harbour Light on Campobello Island will also be open for
tours and tower climbs, weather permitting.
Machias Savings Bank, and the
University of Maine, Machias, and Lighthouse Digest Magazine of Whiting are
sponsoring the Lights Across the Border lighthouse event which is being
hosted by the Friends of Head Harbour Lighthouse, West Quoddy Head Light
Keepers Association and the Friends of Little River Lighthouse, a chapter of
the American Lighthouse Foundation. The sponsors and host groups are proud
of the fact that this is the first international lighthouse challenge to be
held anywhere in the world. It was patterned after similar events held each
year in New Jersey, Maryland, and Long Island, New York.
Registration for the August 9th
event is $15.00 per person and includes a free “Lights Across the Border”
tote bag with goodies, the tower climbs and the free boat ride to Cutler’s
Little River Lighthouse.
Registration fee can be mailed to
Lights Across the Border, P.O. Box 671, East Machias, ME 04630 or you can
register on-line at
or by calling 207-259-3833. Event pamphlets
are available at Owen House on Campobello Island, West Quoddy Gifts in Lubec,
Machias Area Chamber of Commerce in Machias, Machias Savings Bank in Machias,
and various other locations. They are also available by mail for a $2.00
fee.
