I find these long ago comments by Henry Clay Barnabee, an American singer and actor, to be quite insightful. Staying at or in a lighthouse is an experience like no other. And one need not be a …
Historical
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lantern Pane Duties
Looking back through lighthouse history, you might say that keepers were very good at cleaning windows. Maybe not by choice, but duty called nonetheless. When it came to the panes of a lantern, …
U.S. Lighthouse Service Pennant
An eye-catching pennant once flew proudly aboard Lighthouse Service vessels, and later at the best kept light station in each district during the era of the United States Lighthouse Service. This …
Thanksgiving at The Rock
I was thinking how very different Thanksgiving 2020 feels compared to holidays in years gone by, and how – in some strange way, it mirrors aspects of many a Thanksgiving Day at offshore lighthouses …
Maine’s Grace Darling
The report below appeared in The Republican Journal, Belfast, on June 10, 1897. Though The Republican Journal, and an earlier report in the Rockland Courier Gazette, recorded the name of the teenage …
In a Maine Lighthouse
The following small article appeared in November 1913 issue of The Ladies Home Journal. The article does not mention which lighthouse in Penobscot Bay, nor the name of the keeper – both probably by …
Matinicus Rock Through the Eyes of an Island Child
Throughout Maine’s long and storied lighthouse history, authors, travel writers and news reporters have yearned to learn more about the lights and those who kept them. And rightfully so, for the …
Lad Keeps Light Burning at Saddleback Ledge
The following excerpt is from the feature entitled, “From Light to Light: A Cruise of the Armeria, Supply-Ship” by author Kirk Munroe, which appeared in the October 1896 issue of Scribner’s Magazine. …
The Lighthouse
The following poem was penned by Douglas Malloch and appeared in the December 1934 edition of the Lighthouse Service Bulletin… “It knows no lands, no flags, no kings, These are inconsequential …
Matinicus Rock Light Poem
The following poem about Matinicus Rock Light was written by Hilda Thompson of Damariscotta, Maine, and appeared in the January 23, 1939 edition of the Rockland Courier Gazette… Twenty miles from …