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American Lighthouse Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 565
Rockland,
Maine 04841
Phone: 207-594-4174
Fax: 207-596-1091
info@lighthousefoundation.org
The American Lighthouse Foundation is a
Non-Profit 501(c)(3) Organization dedicated to the
preservation of America's historic
lighthouses & lightships and
their heritage.
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Community Connects with
the Past & Present of
Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse
By Bob Trapani, Jr.
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Lighthouse
history can be fascinating but what is just as exciting is when people
have the opportunity to learn that we’re still making lighthouse history
in the present, especially when this history is happening everyday
within their own community.
On Saturday
February 17, 2007 Ted Panayotoff of the Friends of Rockland |
Photo by Bob Trapani, Jr.
"Keeper" Ted Panayotoff presented
"The Lighthouse at Rockland
Breakwater"
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Breakwater Lighthouse presented a lecture at the Maine Lighthouse Museum
entitled “The Lighthouse at Rockland Breakwater.” The 72 people in
attendance listened and learned as Panayotoff took them on a journey back in
time over a century ago to when the long granite breakwater and the
lighthouse were originally built.
With each passing minute the audience was mentally leaping through decades
of rich history that touched on the importance of keeping a good light, how
the lighthouse played a role in safeguarding Rockland’s maritime interests,
and even its shrouded role in the two World Wars as a lookout site for
coastal defenses.
By lecture’s end the audience became well acquainted with the fact that
Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse is alive with critical restoration activity |
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Photo by Bob Trapani, Jr.
Ted Panayotoff highlighted the past and
present history of the lighthouse
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and is open to the general public for education thanks to
the passionate efforts of the Friends of Rockland Breakwater, a chapter
of the American Lighthouse Foundation.
“People from Rockland look out and see the lighthouse
everyday or visit it in the summer,” says |
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Panayotoff, “but a
lot of folks do not know about its history or the efforts to save the
lighthouse. This lecture was an opportunity to tell them about why the
lighthouse was built and the people who manned it, but it also was a chance
to get folks interested in the lighthouse and support what the Friends of
Rockland Breakwater is doing. This is “their” lighthouse and we encourage
them to become involved.”
In the end community residents and visitors alike walked away from the
lecture having learned that as much as things change in life, some things
remain the same. Since it was first built in 1902 the Rockland Breakwater
Lighthouse required keepers who were dedicated to keeping a good light
shining at all times. Today the Friends of Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse
are the sentinel’s new keepers of light. Their duty, which is a labor of
love, remains unchanged with the passage of time in that they, like the
keepers of a bygone era, continue to work hard so that the light people see
glimmering across Rockland Harbor remains standing tall and shining bright
for future generations.
To learn more about the Friends of Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse, visit
www.rocklandlighthouse.com or contact them at P.O. Box 741, Rockland, ME
04841
To learn more about the Maine Lighthouse Museum, which holds fascinating
monthly lectures on maritime-related history inside the Breakwater Room of
the Museum (free to the general public,) visit
www.mainelighthousemuseum.com or call (207) 594-3301.
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