For well-nigh two decades, I have beheld the splendid scene of the buoy tender ABBIE BURGESS – one of the United States Coast Guard’s finest cutters, steaming to and fro by Owls Head Lighthouse. And …
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Spiral of Time
Within this spiral of time much in the way of lighthouse history still traverses. Such an inner sanctum is where the seen and unseen are conjoint evermore – sharing in the majesty of every unfolding …
If Only I Could Talk with Augustin Fresnel
If only I could pull up a chair and confer with the great Augustin Fresnel. Just once! Oh, the questions I would ask. His replies would no doubt astound my every query. Light’s prism realm of …
New Book Gleams and Whispers Explores How Maine’s Lighthouses Speak to Our Hearts
The mere presence of a lighthouse points to a higher, altruistic purpose – one that is embraced by notions such as romance, mystery, isolation, and heroism. Ask a hundred people what lighthouses mean …
Lighthouses in Time
What once was is now but ripples in lost epochs traversed. Disbursed back when and promptly indexed within the annals of memory, the anterior gleams of our lighthouse past are deemed frozen ridges of …
Christmas Spirit at West Quoddy Head Light
The following was inspired by the sight of a beautiful Christmas tree inside the former keeper’s dwelling – now a visitor’s center, at West Quoddy Head Lighthouse during the holiday season… A …
Staying at a Lighthouse
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 …
Aberrations of Audibility of Fog-Signals
The following information about oddities related to fog signals was published in the government publication, The Modern Light-House Service, 1890, by Arnold Burges Johnson, Chief Clerk, United States …