Sharon White and Bob Zimman of ALF’s Friends of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouses were each presented with an ALF Len Hadley Volunteer Award during the American Lighthouse Foundation’s annual gala, which was held at the Nonantum Resort in Kennebunkport, Maine, on April 29, 2018. Sharon White Sharon has been a Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse volunteer for six […]
The Lantern at Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse to be Repainted in 2015
ALF’s Friends of Rockland Harbor Lights (FRHL) chapter will be tackling a couple of restoration and maintenance projects at Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse this summer, including the sentinel’s the iron lantern. The $10,000 project will be carried out by the J.B. Leslie Company of South Berwick, Maine. The J.B. Leslie Company will prep, prime and repaint […]
Restoring the View from the Keeper’s House at Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse
Each year around twelve thousand visitors tour Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse, many starting their experience high atop the light tower before going back down and retracing the steps of the bygone lightkeeper throughout the interior of the keeper’s dwelling. A tour of the 1902 structure provides visitors with a sense of what it might have been […]
Joseph Estrella of the Friends of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse is Presented with an ALF Volunteer Award
The American Lighthouse Foundation held its annual lighthouse gala at the Four Points by Sheraton in Eastham, MA, on April 28, 2012. The organization’s signature event featured some wonderful lighthouse camaraderie, fundraising, a great meal and some Cape Cod lighthouses open for climbing (Nauset, The Three Sisters and Highland), but the highlight of the evening […]
Bob Orcutt of the Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse is Presented with an ALF Volunteer Award
The American Lighthouse Foundation held its annual lighthouse gala at the Four Points by Sheraton in Eastham, MA, on April 28, 2012. The organization’s signature event featured some wonderful lighthouse camaraderie, fundraising, a great meal and some Cape Cod lighthouses open for climbing (Nauset, The Three Sisters and Highland), but the highlight of the evening […]
ALF Volunteers Tackle More than Housekeeping Work at Cape Elizabeth Light
Taking advantage of a day (2/5/11) when professional contracting work was being done in the lantern of Cape Elizabeth Light, a group of American Lighthouse Foundation volunteers gathered at the lighthouse to simultaneously carry out some housekeeping inside the tower. No sooner had the volunteers arrived and tried to open the entry door to the […]