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Buoy tender ABBIE BURGESS

Pondering Abbie Burgess and the ABBIE BURGESS

By Bob Trapani, Jr. March 12, 2023

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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Isle au Haut

Fresnel Lenses Given a New Watch

By Bob Trapani, Jr. March 3, 2023

These diadems of lighthouse majesty once scintillated like no other at the pinnacle of classical times. And what a splendid age it was! For there was a day when every lighthouse entrusted with the …

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Book Gleams and Whispers

New Book Gleams and Whispers Explores How Maine’s Lighthouses Speak to Our Hearts

By Bob Trapani, Jr. February 6, 2023

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 …

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Matinicus Rock

A ‘Story Kind of Nice’ from Matinicus Rock Keeper

By Bob Trapani, Jr. December 2, 2021

The 1950 Christmas season was anything but normal for the keepers on Matinicus Rock. Just one month earlier on November 26, 1950, a storm for the ages battered the Rock with such fury that to this …

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Matinicus Rock Light Station

A Happy New Year Day

By Bob Trapani, Jr. January 1, 2021

Words from the past can often find relevance in the presence – even when the circumstances have no direct connection. In a letter from the keepers of Matinicus Rock Light Station written ninety-two …

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Matinicus Rock

Thanksgiving at The Rock

By Bob Trapani, Jr. November 26, 2020

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 …

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Saddleback Ledge Light

Storm Wreaked Havoc on Maine Lighthouses

By Maine Lights Today Staff September 30, 2020

A late-winter storm caused major damage at a number of Maine lighthouses up and down the coast on March 2 and 3, 1947. At offshore lights like Saddleback Ledge, keepers no doubt were concerned for the …

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LED beacon

LEDs are the New Wave of Beacons for Lighthouses

By Bob Trapani, Jr. August 29, 2020

Climb to the top of a Maine lighthouse and one is bound to be astounded by the breathtaking beauty of the surrounding seascape. However, as time marches on and a wave of change rolls in with the tide, …

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Matinicus Rock

Matinicus Rock Through the Eyes of an Island Child

By Bob Trapani, Jr. August 28, 2020

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 …

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Matinicus Rock south tower

Matinicus Rock Light Poem

By Maine Lights Today Staff August 13, 2020

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 …

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