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American Lighthouse Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 565
Rockland,
Maine 04841
Phone: 207-594-4174
info@lighthousefoundation.org
The American Lighthouse Foundation is a
Non-Profit 501(c)(3) Organization dedicated to the preservation of America's historic lighthouses.
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Many Hands Make Light Work
By Jeremy D’Entremont
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It takes plenty of teamwork to get a lighthouse shipshape
for the summer season. Once again this spring, a number of Friends of
Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse volunteers enthusiastically chipped in to
accomplish a great deal.
As they’ve done in the past, the Portsmouth Sherwin
Williams store showed their support for the community by donating a
large amount of stain and paint to meet our needs. Marsha Levy,
architect at Coast Guard Civil Engineering Unit Providence, helped our
co-chairman, Ross Tracy, determine the appropriate materials to use.
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Photo by Bob Trapani, Jr.
Ross Tracy applies a new coat of
paint to the spiral staircase
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Most of the work
was accomplished in two weekends in May. On the first weekend, we stained
most of the pressure-treated wood on our new 80-foot walkway to the
lighthouse, which was built last September. The wood is now gray, matching
the walkway decking.
The stairs inside
the lighthouse were repainted over the course of the two weekends. Bob
Trapani, executive director of the American Lighthouse Foundation, took on
the unenviable duty of painting the underside of the stairs from a 25-foot
ladder while the rest of us remained relatively earthbound. Some of the
other surfaces inside the tower, including the ladder to the lantern room
and the lantern room floor, also received bright new coats of paint.
During the first weekend of work, three volunteers – Deb Belanger, her son
Josh Belanger, and Katie Looney cleaned out the oil house near the
lighthouse, and cleared a path to the oil house on the rocky beach. The
April nor’easter that hit our area so hard had deposited a substantial pile
of rocks and miscellaneous debris in the brick building, built in 1903.
Thanks to the other volunteers who did so much to help: Joanne |
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Photo by Bob Trapani, Jr.
Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse
May 12, 2007
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Yeaton, Darlene Stubbe, Jackie Maurice, and William
Marshall. Volunteer workdays not only allow vital work to be
accomplished; they’re also fun and satisfying and help create a feeling
of cameraderie in a preservation organization like ours.
Posted: 6/30/07 |
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Photo Gallery...
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Photo by Bob Trapani, Jr.
Jeremy D'Entremont works on painting the
staircase
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Photo by Bob Trapani, Jr.
William Marshall applies a coat
of paint to the walkway
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(L to R) Joanne Yeaton and Darlene Stubbe
paint the banister leading to the oil house
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Photo by Jeremy D'Entremont
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Photo by William Marshall
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Photo by Ann-Marie Trapani
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Bob Trapani paints the underside of the
staircase
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Photo by Jeremy D'Entremont
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(L to R) Katie Looney and Josh Belanger
clean debris from the oil house
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Photo by Bob Trapani, Jr.
Ross Tracy sweeps clean the watchroom and
staircase
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Photo by Jeremy D'Entremont.
Deb Belanger removes debris
from the light station grounds
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Jackie Maurice
applies a coat of paint to the light
station's walkway
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Photo by Jeremy D'Entremont
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Photo by Ann-Marie Trapani
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(L to R) William Marshall and Jeremy
D'Entremont apply a coat of paint to the light station's walkway
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(L to R) William
Marshall, Jeremy D'Entremont, Ross Tracy & Bob Trapani "call it a day"
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Photo by Ann-Marie Trapani
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