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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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Rare Photos Donated to Museum of Lighthouse History
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Anita Romleski of
Forest Lake,
Minnesota, has recently donated a number of rare photos to the American
Lighthouse Foundation of her ancestor’s lives as keepers at
Maine’s
Libby Island and Little River lighthouses.
Anita found the photos while recently going through her mother’s, Doris
Kilton Sprague, belongings. Mrs. Sprague passed away this past March a
just a few short days short of her 100th birthday.
Mrs.
Sprague’s father Harold Kilton, served as a lighthouse keeper at Goose
Rocks Lighthouse and on the Kennebec River’s Doubling Point Range Lights
during the 1930s and 1940s, while her grandfather, Charles Kenney,
served at Petit |
ALF Photo
Doris Kilton
Sprague as a
young child on the
walkway at Cutler's Little River Lighthouse in the early 1900s during
the time
her grandfather
Charles Keeney served there as the keeper.
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Manan Light from
1903 to 1905, Libby Island Light from 1905 to 1912, Little River Light from
1912 to 1921, Eagle Island in 1922, and St. Croix River Light from 1923 to
1930.
Tim
Harrison, president of the American Lighthouse Foundation, said, “These
photos are like gold to us. Not only do they help tell the story of what
lighthouse life was like in the days of the keepers and families, these
photos can now be saved and preserved for future generations.” |
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ALF Photo
Lighthouse keeper
Charles Kenney with
family members at
the bell tower at Little
River Lighthouse
sometime between 1912
and 1921.
This photo and many others
were recently
donated to the American
Lighthouse
Foundation by Anita Romleski.
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Some of the
photos will go on display at the
Museum
of Lighthouse History in Wells.
Harrison continued by saying, “Romleski felt the American Lighthouse
Foundation would be the best stewards for the photographs. In
1998, Romleski sent Lighthouse Digest a story of her grandfather Harold
Kilton’s life at the Doubling Point Range |
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Lights with
photos and in May 2001 they published her mother Doris Sprague’s memories of
Charles Kenney’s life at Cutler’s Little River Lighthouse in Lighthouse
Digest magazine.”
Harrison
hopes that donations like this will encourage other
Maine
lighthouse families to step forward to donate other lighthouse keeper family
photos to enable the non-profit lighthouse preservation group to save and
preserve the photographs and memories for future generations.
The
American Lighthouse Foundation’s
Museum of Lighthouse History, on U. S.
Rt. 1 in Wells, will hold its Grand Opening on National |
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Lighthouse
Day, August 7, at 11 am. Harrison said, “Governor John Baldacci will be
on hand to cut the ribbon for the Grand Opening of our newly expanded
museum. This shows the commitment many Mainers have in helping us to
preserve our states lighthouse heritage.”
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ALF Photo
Lighthouse keeper
Harold Kilton with wife Marcia and others in a Coast Guard jeep at
Doubling Point Range Lights in 1946.
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