After selling
more than $1000 worth of tickets over six months, the Friends of
Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse (a chapter of the American Lighthouse
Foundation) held a raffle drawing at the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of
Commerce office on Monday, December 18.
The grand
prize was a detailed, working 29-inch-tall replica of Portsmouth Harbor
Lighthouse, created by Steve Wright of
in Yorktown Heights, New York. Other prizes
included a bronze relief plaque of the lighthouse created by Rhode
Island sculptor
, and a large framed photo of the lighthouse by
of Dover.
The winning
tickets were drawn by Chamber of Commerce staff. The
Photo by William Marshall
The top prizes in the Friends
of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse
raffle were displayed at the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce
visitor center on Market Street in Portsmouth.
winners are:
American Lawn Lights replica:
Brenda Fleming of Delhi, NY.
Bronze relief plaque:
Barbara Wolf of Montclair, VA.
Framed photo: Marian
McAleenan of Rockport, ME.
Tugboat Alley $50 gift certificate:
Michel Micucci of Dover, NH.
Tugboat Alley $50 gift certificate:
Erica Duncan of Boston, MA.
Lighthouse lens replica by Harbour
Lights: Randall and Linda Ronne of Parker, CO.
Books – “Lighthouses of New
England,” by Edward Rowe Snow, and “The
Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife,” by Connie Small: Pam Williams of
Barrington, NH.
Jeremy D’Entremont,
co-chairman of the Friends, stresses that the raffle would not have been
possible without the generous donations of prizes by
Photo by William Marshall
Jeremy D’Entremont, co-chairman of the
Friends of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse,
reads the winning ticket drawn by Greater
Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce
Vice President Marge Hubbard.
companies and
individuals. “The support we received for this raffle, both in terms of
donated prizes and tickets sold, was very gratifying,” said D’Entremont.
“We’re also grateful to the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce for
displaying the prizes for several months. Thanks to them, tickets were
bought by visitors from around the country.”
Friends of
Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse cares for the historic 1878 lighthouse in New
Castle, also known to locals as Fort Point Light. The group had the 80-foot
wooden walkway at the lighthouse rebuilt in September. Eight public open
houses and other events are in the works for 2007; you can check
for details.
