Have you ever won anything or do you dream of winning
something?
A few lucky people will get to have that experience in the next few days
when a package arrives at their home from the American Lighthouse
Foundation, In fact, as often as has been the experienced in the past,
most winners won’t even remember that they purchased a
raffle ticket as part of the American Lighthouse Foundation’s ongoing
fundraising efforts.
The raffle tickets were offered all of last season in the
American Lighthouse Foundation’s Museum of Lighthouse History and were
available by ordering them through the newsletter or from the web site.
Photo by Ann-Marie Trapani
The American Lighthouse Foundation
awarded a total of five prizes which
included an original pointillism
print of
Nubble Light by artist Randall Peterson &
a hand-signed limited edition
Charles
Wysocki print of Rockland
Breakwater Light.
Winning an original pointillism print of Maine’s famous Cape Neddick,
“Nubble” Lighthouse in York, Maine, done by Minnesota artist Randall J.
Peterson, was Keith & Jeanne Ecker of Cicero, Indiana. Pointillism is a
technique first used by French Artist Georges Pierre Seurat in the late
1800’s. The creation of this unique artwork is by hand-making an innumerable
series of dots that eventually comprise the completed image. This original
work of art was donated by Mr. Peterson and has a retail value of $1,500.00.
The winner of the hand-signed, limited edition, print of Maine’s Rockland
Breakwater Lighthouse, by Americana artist Charles Wysocki, was Audrey
Photo by Ann-Marie Trapani
Irma Streeter draws a winning ticket with
help from ALF president Tim Harrison.
McCoskey of Ocala, Florida. The print, donated by the
estate of Marlyse Milburn, is believed to have a retail value of
approximately $1,600.00.
Three additional names were drawn and each received a
Harbour Lights limited edition replica of the Clarks Point Lighthouse,
located in New Bedford,
Massachusetts, which was the site of the International Lighthouse Conference
that was held a few years ago. Those winners are, Clarissa Wolpert of
Wantage, NJ, Peter Hall of Uxbridge, MA and P. J. Landis of Columbia, PA.
In thanking the many people from around the country that participated in the
raffle, Tim Harrison, president of the American Lighthouse Foundation said,
“Raffles like this are a major source of fund raising for our general fund,
for the museum and staff operating expenses. We also hope that wonderful
prizes like these, will draw more people to the Museum of Lighthouse
History, in Wells, in 2006 for our next raffle that will start on Memorial
Day weekend.”
