Finishing touches being applied to Pemaquid Point Lighthouse

By Bob Trapani, Jr.

The history-making journey of Maine's Pemaquid Point Lighthouse during Phase II restoration is coming down the home stretch, with just a few interior finishing touches remaining.

For ten weeks leading up to Memorial Day, the crews of J.B. Leslie Company, Inc., have been busy performing the “heavy lifting” work associated with the 2010 restoration project, which has included phases such as masonry coatings removal and repointing, ironwork rehabilitation and the recoating of masonry, wood and iron components.

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New website for Nubble Light

Cape Neddick Lighthouse in York, Maine, better known as the Nubble Light, is one of the most photographed lighthouses on the planet.

The lighthouse is owned and managed by the Town of York's Parks and Recreation Department. They've just established a beautiful new website: www.nubblelight.org. Check it out, and please consider a donation to Friends of Nubble Light.

Light spirits

They say the keeper's house at Wood Island Lighthouse in Biddeford Pool, Maine, is haunted. At left is an unretouched photo I took inside the keeper's house yesterday.

I'd say this is proof that the place is haunted. Or maybe proof that the Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse are good at decorating the place.

For more on hauntings at Wood Island, click here.

Bob Trapani at Wood Island Lighthouse, Maine

Bob Trapani, executive director of the American Lighthouse Foundation, at the Wood Island Lighthouse in Biddeford Pool, Maine, on June 5, 2010.

The lighthouse is managed by the Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse, a chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation. For more, see www.woodislandlighthouse.org.

A Visit to Wood Island Lighthouse, Maine

In the video above, Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse chairman Brad Coupe invites everyone to come and visit the lighthouse.

Following an American Lighthouse Foundation board of directors meeting today in Biddeford Pool, Maine, a group board members and a few others took a boat ride out to Wood Island Lighthouse, courtesy of the Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse.



The lighthouse, a 47-foot stone tower built in 1839, is currently under restoration. When that's done, there are plans to restore the keeper's house.






The Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse run boat tours to the island three days a week in July and August. If you're in the area and you love lighthouses, you need to put this at the top of your list.

Click here for more on the Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse.

Repainting of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse almost done!

At left: Loyd Dussault of Johnson Interiors puts a new coat of paint on the bottom section of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse, NH.

The $30,000 repainting project, paid for by Friends of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse, is almost complete.

Early next week, the J.B. Leslie Masonry Company will attach protective netting beneath the ironwork on the lighthouse's lantern deck, which will prevent cliff swallows from nesting there.

Over the years, the nesting birds had caused much corrosion of the ironwork.

The swallows have easily adapted by building nests in the walls of nearby Fort Constitution.

See www.portsmouthharborlighthouse.org for more information.

Bagpiper on the Rocks

Bagpiper John Daggett entertained visitors to last Sunday's open house at Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse. Here he is on the rocks near the lighthouse in a photo taken by Sharon Mills, secretary of Friends of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse.