|
SEARCH ALF WEB
Help ALF
Today!
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.
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
|
| |
U.S. Coast Guard Lends Volunteer “Elbow
Grease” to Help Remove Graffiti at Lighthouse
|
|
| |
|
One thing is quite clear – residents of the City of
Rockland love their lighthouse with a passion!
In the wake of the horrible news about the vandalism that
occurred at Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse in late August 2007, the
outpouring of community response and the sheer numbers of people who
stepped forward offering to help |
Photo by Ann-Marie Trapani
Volunteers from the Coast Guard cutters
ABBIE BURGESS, TACKLE and Friends
of Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse work to
recoat the graffiti covered wooden boat
house
|
|
|
| |
remove the
graffiti from the historic site was simply incredible.
One of the first calls that Dot Black, chairperson for the Friends of
Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse, received after the news of the vandalism
went public in the Village Soup was from the United States Coast
Guard.
Crewmembers from both the USCGC ABBIE BURGESS, under the command of CWO4
Thomas Svejcar, and USCGC TACKLE, under the command of |
|
| |
|
Photo by Ann-Marie Trapani
Volunteers gave up their Saturday morning
to lend a helping hand to the
Friends of Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse
|
Chief John Anders, each based in Rockland, volunteered on
August 25th to help the Friends of Rockland Breakwater
Lighthouse restore the dignity of the 1902 harbor landmark.
The crew of volunteer Coasties assembled at the public
dock in Rockland on a beautiful Saturday morning and was transported to
the lighthouse by Two Toots, |
|
|
| |
a local water taxi
service, while another group of Coastguardsmen walked out the 7/8 mile-long
breakwater to the light.
In a matter of three hours with the use of a lot of elbow grease and dogged
determination, the U.S. Coast Guard volunteers and members of the Friends of
Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse successfully removed the gold spray paint
graffiti from the structure’s custom wood shutters and brickwork.
Dot Black recalls the uplifting moment when she heard from the Coast Guard,
saying, “The most important phone calls I received was when I |
|
| |
|
learned that the Coast Guard had put together a volunteer
group for Saturday morning (the 25th) to go out to the
lighthouse and remove the paint from the shutters and bricks, and the
Trapani family, who is always there for me. They jumped right in to say
they would be there to help.”
Black went on to say, “Watching all the volunteers step
forward |
Photo by Ann-Marie Trapani
(L to R) CWO Tom Svejcar and DC1 John
Griffin of the ABBIE BURGESS remove
graffiti from the wooden shutters on the
west or harbor side of the lighthouse
|
|
|
| |
and work together
made me think that it was very important to restore such a great landmark.
The Coast Guard really has a very special meaning to me – they have been
awesome to me and I love everyone of them.”
The team effort to
restore the dignity to Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse resonated throughout
the community via word of mouth and local newspapers, showing once again
Rockland’s passion for their lighthouse and the United States Coast Guard’s
commitment to helping make the local community a better place wherever
possible.
|
|
| |
|
Photo by Ann-Marie Trapani
|
(L to R) USCG Auxiliarist Bob Trapani,
Jr. and BM1 Domingo Barra of the ABBIE BURGESS remove gold spray paint
from the brickwork and wooden shutters on the south side of the
lighthouse
|
|
|
| |
(L to R) SN Chad Gable (TACKLE), SK2
Kevin Mussante (ABBIE BURGESS), BMC John Anders (Commanding Officer of
the TACKLE) and BM1 Jeff Emery (ABBIE BURGESS) remove spray paint from
the wooden shutters on the west side of the lighthouse
|
Photo by Ann-Marie Trapani
|
|
|
| |
Photo by Ann-Marie Trapani
Volunteers removed graffiti from Rockland
Breakwater
Lighthouse on Saturday, August 25th (Front row L to R) SK2
Kevin Mussante, Auxiliarist Bob Trapani, Jr., BM1 Domingo Barra
& DC1
John Griffin (Back Row L to R) CWO Tom Svejcar, BM1 Jeff Emery, SN Chad
Gable, BMC John Anders, Dot Black, president
of the Friends of Rockland Breakwater
Lighthouse, and FORB
volunteers Chris Gamage and Laura Dambrofio
(Not Pictured) SN Adam Gasaparre
|
|
| |
The graffiti was removed from the wooden
shutters and boat house at Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse thanks to
efforts of Coast Guard and community volunteers
|
Photo by Ann-Marie Trapani
|
|
|
| |
|
Photo by Bob Trapani, Jr.
|
USCGC ABBIE BURGESS
|
|
|
| |
USCGC TACKLE
|
Photo by Bob Trapani, Jr.
|
|
|
| |
Posted: 10/28/2007 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
