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Terry Rowden at Little River

Terry Rowden is Honored with an ALF Keeper of the Light Award

By: American Lighthouse Foundation Published: May 7, 2025

On May 4, 2025, ALF honored Terry Rowden with a “Keeper of the Light award during the organization’s annual Gala, which was held at the Nonantum Resort in Kennebunkport, Maine. […]

Filed Under: ALF News, Little River Lighthouse Tagged With: 2025, american lighthouse foundation, award, coast guard, cutler, keeper of the light, kennebunkport, little river light, maine, nonantum resort, terry rowden

2025 ALF Gala

Difference Makers are Honored at the ALF Gala

By: American Lighthouse Foundation Published: May 6, 2025

On May 4, 2025, the American Lighthouse Foundation held our annual gala at the Nonantum Resort in Kennebunkport, Maine, to honor a group of extraordinary people who have gone above […]

Filed Under: ALF News Tagged With: 2025, ALF Storm and Mitigation, american lighthouse foundation, andrew sachs, bob trapani jr, caoe cod chapter of ALF, coast guard, david pomerantz, Ford Reiche, friends of little river lighthouse, friends of pemaquid point lighthouse, friends of pomham rocks lighthouse, friends of portsmouth harbor lighthouses, friends of wood island lighthouse, gala awards, gary childs, judianne point, kennebunkport, maine, nick korstad, nonantum resort, patrick r brown, Response Team, sector northern new england, uscg

Peter Ralston Receives ALF's Keeper of the Light Award.

Peter Ralston is Honored with ALF’s Keeper of the Light Award

By: American Lighthouse Foundation Published: November 29, 2023

The American Lighthouse Foundation’s Keeper of the Light award is designed to honor those individuals and organizations in the national lighthouse community who have contributed in a significant manner to […]

Filed Under: ALF News Tagged With: 2023, 25th anniversary, american lighthouse foundation, bob trapani, coast guard, george h w bush, heron neck, island institute, keeper of the light award, kennebunkport, maine lights program, national historic lighthouse preservation act, nonantum resort, olympia snowe, peter ralston, President, senator, United States

Little River Light, Maine

August 7th Commenced Lighthouse Week in 1939

By: American Lighthouse Foundation Published: August 6, 2023

Did You Know? From the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 3 – The President, 1938-1943 Compilation: Lighthouse Week Whereas Public Resolution 16, 76th Congress (53 Stat. 746), approved May 15, […]

Filed Under: ALF News, Lighthouse History Tagged With: 150th anniversary, 1789, 1939, August 7th, coast guard, Congress, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lighthouse Service, Lighthouse Week, ninth act, President, United States

Little River Light

Little River Light’s Terry and Cynthia Rowden are Honored with ALF Volunteer Awards

By: American Lighthouse Foundation Published: May 16, 2022

Terry and Cynthia Rowden of ALF’s Friends of Little River Lighthouse were honored with Len Hadley Volunteer Awards during the American Lighthouse Foundation’s annual Gala, which was held at the […]

Filed Under: ALF News, Little River Lighthouse Tagged With: 2022, american lighthouse foundation, coast guard, cynthia rowden, len hadley volunteer award, little river lighthouse, terry rowden

Whaleback Light in Kittery

A Keeper’s Letter from Whaleback Lighthouse

By: American Lighthouse Foundation Published: November 20, 2019

The following letter by an unnamed keeper at Whaleback Lighthouse in Kittery, Maine, appeared in the March 1957 issue of the Maine Coast Fisherman… “Well, here it is the end […]

Filed Under: Lighthouse History, Whaleback Lighthouse Tagged With: 1957, coast guard, keeper, lighthouse, seal, station portsmouth, Whaleback Lighthouse

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