Jim and Hilari Seery of the New England Lighthouse Lovers, a chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation, were each honored with a “Len Hadley Volunteer Award” during ALF’s annual Lighthouse Gala, which was held at the Nonantum Resort in Kennebunkport, Maine, on April 29, 2018. Jim and Hilari Seery are longtime members of the New […]
ALF Honors “Team” Pemaquid Point Lighthouse
ALF’s Friends of Pemaquid Point Lighthouse was 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. Over the years, the Friends of Pemaquid Point Lighthouse (FPPL) have honored many of their most dedicated volunteers – […]
Cape Cod Chapter’s Ron Hewins Presented with an ALF Volunteer Award
Ron Hewins of ALF’s Cape Cod Chapter was presented with an ALF Len Hadley Volunteer Award during the American Lighthouse Foundation’s annual Lighthouse Gala, which was held at the Nonantum Resort in Kennebunkport, Maine, on April 29, 2018. ALF’s Cape Cod Chapter operates one of the finest overnight stay programs in the nation at Race […]
FPHL’s Sharon White and Bob Zimman Receive ALF Volunteer Awards
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 […]
Sailor the Fog Bell Ringing Dog at Wood Island
Newspaper Article from the Past Wood Island Lighthouse in Maine was once home to a famous dog named Sailor. According to lighthouse author and historian, Jeremy D’Entremont, “Keeper Thomas Orcutt’s dog, Sailor, a mostly-black mongrel (described as a Scotch Collie in one article), was taken to the island as a two-month-old puppy and went on […]
Keeper of Pemaquid Point Light Commended for Rescue
Newspaper Article from the Past… This is one of the more dramatic accounts in the history of Maine’s Pemaquid Point Lighthouse. In 1930, Keeper Elwell risked his own personal safety to come to the aid of three teenagers whose boat had capsized off the light station. Anyone who has visited Pemaquid Point Lighthouse knows all […]
Times when Browns Head Lighthouse was Extinguished
The Fox Island Thoroughfare is a gorgeous inshore passage approximately seven miles in length, which leads from the east to west side of Penobscot Bay, between North Haven and Vinalhaven islands. Today, this protected passageway is a favorite for Maine windjammers and pleasure craft alike to leisurely traverse or drop anchor in one of its […]
Narrow Escape from Drowning at Pomham Rocks Lighthouse
A Newspaper Article from the Past… C.H. Salisbury, the first keeper of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse (1871 to 1893), was no doubt faithful to his duties based on his long tenure (22 years) at the offshore sentinel, but he also appears to have been proficient at helping save lives along the Providence River as well. According […]
A False Beacon at Race Point Light
Newspaper Articles from the Past… Throughout the history of lighthouses, there are those occasions when mariners mistook a guiding light for another in the vicinity – a mistake that almost always resulted in a shipwreck. There were also times – though much rarer, when either light station equipment malfunctioned or dereliction of duty by the […]
Shining a Light on Whaleback at the Maine State House
The commitment to restore and preserve a lighthouse – and share it with the general public, is nothing short of a fascinating, but winding journey. For Maine’s Whaleback Lighthouse, the latest stop on its journey towards a brighter future was the Maine State House in Augusta. On January 25, 2018, Maine State Representative Deane Rykerson, […]
Lighthouse Keepers Leander White and Henry M. Cuskley Honored
On September 30, 2017, the Friends of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouses (FPHL), a chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation (ALF), paid tribute to two light keepers by establishing U.S. Lighthouse Service markers on the graves of Leander White and Henry M. Cuskley. FPHL and ALF representatives, as well as family members of the lighthouse keepers themselves, […]
Wood Island Lighthouse Poem by a Keeper’s Wife
The following poem was penned by Elmenia P. Lurvey, wife of Wood Island lightkeeper W. F. Lurvey (1917-1923). The poem appeared in the Bar Harbor Times on February 14, 1923. Lines from a Lighthouse I am sitting beside this billowy ocean, And gazing on naught, but the sea and the sky; The crystal waves roll […]
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