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Highland Light

Lighthouses of Cape Cod and the Islands are Guardians in More Ways than One

By: Bob Trapani, Jr., ALF Executive Director Published: February 16, 2026

Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket are some of the most sparkling jewels in the crown of our great nation. If you appreciate history and culture, they have it in […]

Filed Under: ALF News, Nauset Lighthouse, Race Point Lighthouse, Sandy Neck Lighthouse, StationKeeper News Tagged With: ais, american lighthouse foundation, bob trapani, cape cod, cape cod national seashore, dynamic management area, gary childs, highland, jared fulcher, ken rose, light, martha's vineyard, MotionInfo, nantucket, national park service, NOAA, north atlantic right whale, north truro, portia calouro, seasonal management area, slow zones, StationKeeper, the islands, vessel strikes

Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse

Avoiding “Used to Be”

By: Bob Trapani, Jr., ALF Executive Director Published: October 28, 2025

To truly win at making our nation’s historic light stations more resilient in the face of climate weather impacts, we need to be where there has been great loss. Where […]

Filed Under: ALF News, Lighthouses and Climate / Storm News Tagged With: american lighthouse foundation, climate weather impacts, erosion, light in a storm, mitigation, Resiliency, rising sea levels, storm & mitigation response team, storm surge, storms, wind

Halfway Rock

Building a Stronger Future for Lighthouses with the Help of the World Monuments Fund

By: Bob Trapani, Jr., ALF Executive Director Published: April 22, 2025

It has been a little over three months since the World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced on January 15, 2025 that Maine’s sixty-six historic lighthouses were placed on the international preservation […]

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Grindle Point Light Station

Resiliency Begins With Us

By: Bob Trapani, Jr., ALF Executive Director Published: April 20, 2025

Fifteen months have passed since the back-to-back storms in January 2024 wreaked havoc along the New England coastline. In Maine alone, over one-third of the state’s sixty-six lighthouses suffered damage. […]

Filed Under: ALF News, Lighthouses and Climate / Storm News Tagged With: american lighthouse foundation, bob trapani, climate, grindle point, January 2024, light stations, lighthouses, maine, marshall point, mitigation, Petit Manan, Resiliency, resilient, storms

We Do Well to Remember

By: Bob Trapani, Jr., ALF Executive Director Published: February 5, 2025

Whether we are restoring, maintaining or working to make lighthouses more resilient, realizing the aim is a process. And to be sure, this process is an extended one. Such a […]

Filed Under: ALF News, Lighthouses and Climate / Storm News Tagged With: american lighthouse foundation, bob trapani, keepers of the lights, lighthouses, maintenance, mitigation, preservation, resilient, restoration, storms

Rockland Breakwater Light

Do the Little Things – They Matter!

By: Bob Trapani, Jr., ALF Executive Director Published: January 26, 2025

The two January 2024 winter storms that wreaked havoc along the coastal regions of Maine and New Hampshire have left an inexpungible mark. Nowhere is this more evident than at […]

Filed Under: ALF News, Lighthouses and Climate / Storm News Tagged With: 2024, action, american lighthouse foundation, bob trapani jr, climate change, disaster recovery process, federal emergency management agency, hazard mitigation, January, lighthouses, maine, resilient, rising sea levels, small business administration, stewards, storm and mitigation committee

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