Fundraising Effort begins to Restore Stage Island Monument Story by Liz Gotthelf, Publisher • Saco Bay News • August 19, 2025 Stage Island Monument has stood proudly in Saco Bay […]
Fundraising Kicks-Off for the Restoration of Stage Island Monument
Backed by the passionate support of people in the nearby Biddeford and Saco communities, the Maine-based American Lighthouse Foundation is embarking on a project to raise the necessary funds to […]
We Do Well to Remember
Whether we are restoring, maintaining or working to make lighthouses more resilient, realizing the aim is a process. And to be sure, this process is an extended one. Such a […]
William Kourakos Receives ALF’s “Keeper of the Light” Award
The American Lighthouse Foundation honored William Kourakos as a recipient of the “Keeper of the Light” award during the organization’s annual Lighthouse Gala, which was held at the Nonantum Resort […]
The Handiwork of Restoration begins to Show at Wood Island
As is often the case, a restoration project, like the keeper’s house at Wood Island, must go through a phase of preparation that temporarily strips the structure of its familiar […]
Keeping Winter’s Icy Reach Out of Whaleback Light
The final lighthouse maintenance project of 2010 for the American Lighthouse Foundation and its chapters occurred, of all places, offshore at the wave-swept Whaleback Lighthouse. Determined to carry out a […]
