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Winter gale

Suiting Up for Winter Safety at Maine’s Little River Lighthouse

By: Bob Trapani, Jr., ALF Executive Director Published: February 2, 2012

“A keeper not only has to be a steady steeple jack on the sides of his lighthouse, but he must also be a good enough boatman to navigate the water that separates him from the mainland.” – Robert Thayer Sterling, Lighthouses of the Maine Coast and the Men Who Keep Them, 1935 Time marches on […]

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Little River

Lighthouse Keeper First To Welcome New Year

By: American Lighthouse Foundation Published: December 31, 2011

From a cold and lonely outpost off the coast of Cutler, Maine, a lone lighthouse keeper will be the first to welcome in the New Year at the most northeastern island light station in the United States. As part of an ambitious project called The Lighthouse Endeavor, modern day lighthouse keeper Bill Kitchen will be […]

Filed Under: Little River Lighthouse Tagged With: bill kitchen, cutler, downeast, lighthouse, lighthouse endeavor, little river, maine, new years day

Little River Island

Little River Lighthouse Seeks Help for Lighthouse Endeavor

By: American Lighthouse Foundation Published: October 21, 2011

It hasn’t been done in the 164 year history of the lighthouse. But volunteers from Maine’s Little River Lighthouse located on a remote island off the coast of Cutler want to change that. They want to have a lone caretaker live on the island in isolation during the brutal winter months, as well as, year […]

Filed Under: Little River Lighthouse Tagged With: american lighthouse foundation, axiom technologies, bill kitchen, cutler, friends of little river lighthouse, lighthouse endeavor, little river, maine

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