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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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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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Lighthouses in Time

By Bob Trapani, Jr. January 25, 2023

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 …

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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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The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lantern Pane Duties

By Bob Trapani, Jr. January 3, 2022

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, …

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Wireless Society of Southern Maine

On the Air at Maine Lighthouses…Then and Now

By Maine Lights Today Staff August 23, 2020

The 23rd annual International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend occurred on August 22 & 23, 2020. According to the Wireless Society of Southern Maine (WS1SM), a part of the American Radio Relay …

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