Who is This?
George Woodward
Wood Island Keeper 1927-1934.
Here he is probably lighting a fourth order lamp at one of the several lighthouse at which he kept the light.
Raising the Flag at the Lighthouse - 2006
The Spring Work Day Crew takes time out to raise the flag for this season. The flag was the coffin flag of Laurier Burnham who kept the Wood Island light 1959-1963. He lived on the island with his wife Lily and two daughters Tammy and Holly. The family felt that it was appropriate for this flag to fly at the lighthouse which Laurier loved until it can no longer fly as a symbol of our country.
Thank you to the Burnham family.
WEBCAM
Sean Murphy installs the new webcam, provided by GOMOOS, at Wood Island on Spring Work Day. Tricky to say the least up that tall flag pole. Check out the webcam here. Unfortunately, not all computers and servers will allow access to the webcam. GOMOOS has contracted with FOWIL in order to set up two antennas on the island. Read the story here.
LOGO
The Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse are happy to introduce their new logo created by Anne Bassett, a loyal volunteer of many FOWIL projects. It is thanks to Anne's expertise in the area of computer graphics and design that we now have a fine logo. We may soon have merchandise available such as shirts, hats, belts etc. In charge of this new merchandising area is Maureen Sullivan who has donated her expertise in order that FOWIL can offer some products for friends and acquaintances to buy. All of this will, of course, will benefit the lighthouse reconstruction.
Thank you Anne!!
Spring Work Day
Small but mighty crew who completed several projects.
Wood Chucks
The Wood Chucks have a new leader in Steve Sullivan affectionately referred to as "Woody." He kindly stepped up to the plate to run this small group of folks who go out to Wood Island on Tuesdays 9-12 to mow, weed-whack, chop, rake, water and do small repairs.
Oh yes, we enjoy the fabulous view and fantastic environs as well!
If you know that you are missing out and want to jump onboard, contact Steve@woodislandlighthose.org
Jack Moore, Rick Koehler, Sean Murphy, John Sciaba and Frank Wolcott repaired the very bottom of the boat ramp. This part of the ramp is under water more often than not. Sean says that it is now in A#1 condition after two years of work.
The Mooring was also repaired. The Hay field at the lighthouse, was brought back into lawn condition by two hardy souls, Sandy Wolcott and Steve Sullivan - how many hours of mowing was that? Walter Fowski was a plumber for the day as well as sign installer. Shirley Stallings and Sheri Poftak installed the displays and cleaned up the interior then went out and helped in the yard. Frank Wolcott found time to plant daylilies in all the gardens. Thanks to all who worked so hard!
Summer Tours
Summer tours
started at 1 PM, July 1st.
(L-R) Steve Sullivan (crew)
Carol Bassett (host)
Tom Craven (crew)
Bob Orcutt (Captain)
Tours will be offered on Wed 6 PM
Saturday and Sunday at 1&2 PM.
Please see our Tour Link.
Captains: Sean Murphy
Bob Orcutt
Mal Stallings
Crew: Anne Bassett
Marty Burgess
Tom Craven
Tom Goulding
Marianne Mosesso
Steve Sullivan
Hosts: Carol Bassett
George Bruns
Marty Burgess
Sharon Casey
Brad Coupe
Len Euart
Tom Goulding
Kathleen Hulsy
Sue Maccalous
Marianne Mosesso
Renee Messier
Kelly Mourmouras
Dave Noon
Sheri Poftak
Rhonda Pope
Shirley Stallings
Kathleen White
FOWIL creates an entry in the Biddeford Pool 4th of July parade.
Caryn Firebaugh and Shirley Stallings stand in as Wood Island Gossamer Ghosts.
Outreach
Kathleen White represented FOWIL at the opening of the Kenneth Black Exhibition Hall of the Maine Lighthouse Museum. Ken was a very visionary man who saved many artifacts pertaining to the history of lighthouses.
See article here.
This Museum is well worth the trip to Rockland if you haven't been there already.
And of course don't forget the Museum of Lighthouse History
in Wells Maine.
Haunting Event
This Wood Island Lighthouse fundraiser will be held on July 29th. Almost all seats are sold at this time. It will be a Suupernatural evening.
Information can be found here.
Medium Maureen Sullivan will be on hand at the New England Ghost Project presentation at Haunting Event. See and hear Maureen describe her work to channel 4 news by clicking on this site and looking for the 'web entry' "Hear from Maureen".
Web Team: Sean Murphy, Bill Edmunds and Sheri Poftak
Newsletter Team: Sheri Poftak, Bill Edmunds and contributors
The Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse, a chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation.
was formed in the Spring of 2003 specifically to preserve and restore the Wood Island Light Station. Please visit our website for information.
photo by Nancy Pomerleau