Since 2005, Jeld-Wen has been supplying the windows and doors of historic Lighthouses in need at no cost. The “JELD-WEN Reliable Lighthouse Restoration Initiative” invites all Lighthouse enthusiasts and operators, architects and anyone that supports historic preservation to nominate a lighthouse for new windows and doors at www.jeld-wen.com/lighthouse before midnight Pacific Time on [...]
Photo Credit: USCG Photo
While I am on shore leave to recover from the change of weather bug that is going around, Bob Trapani, a New England Lighthouse Preservationist, has written a excellent story about the Coast Guard Cutters breaking the ice on the Kennebec River.
During the spring thaw, heavy rains, rapid snow-melt and dangerous river [...]
Photo by Chris Mills
For over 60-years, the 36-inch diameter Double Drum rotating DCB-36 Aerobeacon replaced most of the Glowing Eyes of American Lighthouses. Since the mid 1940s, the large Fresnel lenses, manufactured using hundreds of handmade polished prisms, were replaced by more efficient and less costly aerobeacons.
With new advances in technology, the DCB-36 Aerobeacon [...]
Recently, Bob Trapani, executive director of the American Lighthouse Foundation, has shared his remembrance of Ken Black who was affectionately called Mr. Lighthouse.
Ken Black was the founding father of the Lighthouse Preservation in the United States. Ken’s vision and passion for preserving Lighthouses began when he served as a Chief Warrant Officer in the [...]
Another renown icon of Maine’s picturesque rocky coastline has a new lease on Lighthouse Life! Due to the efforts of Bob Trapani, executive director of the American Lighthouse Foundation, and the Friends of the Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse, a Preservation License was signed with the Coast Guard this month.
The active Coast Guard aid to [...]