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Light on high

Light on High

By Bob Trapani, Jr. January 27, 2023

Light on high. But why? History recounts stories of keepers climbing spiral staircases – some quite considerable, to tend to the light aloft. And we too have retraced these very same steps today for …

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Pemaquid Point

A Shroud of Snow upon Lantern Panes

By Bob Trapani, Jr. January 21, 2023

Here are some thoughts inspired by a visit to Pemaquid Point Lighthouse on January 20, 2023... Oh keeper of yore, I know there was a time when winter’s storm-sewn curtain of white would not have been …

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Great Duck Island Light

Lighthouses from a Distance

By Bob Trapani, Jr. January 18, 2023

A lighthouse admired from any distance is akin to delving into a book and absorbing every page and chapter synchronously. For the plot of the lighthouse story is steeped in seaborne triumphs and …

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Owls Head Light

Old Man Winter Rides in Out of the North

By Bob Trapani, Jr. January 14, 2023

From out of the north did an old friend come a-calling today at Owls Head Light. Little has been heard of Old Man Winter this season, though the calendar emphatically points to this as the time when …

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Spring Point Ledge Light

Visit a Lighthouse, but Explore too!

By Bob Trapani, Jr. January 11, 2023

A visit to a lighthouse is always a lot of fun, but don't forget to make time to explore the surroundings of a lighthouse. The lighthouse presides over a beautiful natural realm replete with …

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Saddleback Ledge

Saddleback Ledge Light Stirs the Imagination

By Bob Trapani, Jr. January 11, 2023

Over the years, I have admired this lighthouse from both the water and up-close. Whether climbing around its craggy ledges or looking down upon this desolate rock from the top of the lighthouse, the …

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Keepers of the Lights

Still Tending the Lights

By Bob Trapani, Jr. January 10, 2023

U.S. Coast Guard lighthouse technicians are not considered lighthouse keepers, though they keep a good light. They do not reside at a lighthouse yet they retrace the keeper’s every step. It is said …

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Marshall Point, Port Clyde

Sundown at Marshall Point Light

By Bob Trapani, Jr. January 7, 2023

Random thoughts during a visit to Marshall Point Light near sundown... The ebb tide tugged hard on time – pulling hand over hand not only brine, but what remained of daylight into a dark swathe of …

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Goat Island

Giving Back to the Lights

By Bob Trapani, Jr. January 4, 2023

The preservation watch over our lighthouses has no end. This fact inspired me to write the following… We don’t know where our lighthouse trails lead in the time ahead, but we do know we won’t be …

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Rockland Breakwater

Rockland Breakwater Intrigue

By Bob Trapani, Jr. December 31, 2022

The following was inspired by the circular shape - or "turn" of the granite and a lighthouse steadfast... The turn of time, for certainly there was a time. A grand time. Today tells me so. My eyes …

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