Lighthouse Map Designed for Maine-Canada Event
By Sue Clark on Jun 8, 2008 in The Light Side 
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The International Lighthouse Challenge has released the image of the new map that will be used for the Lights Across the Border lighthouse event that will be held on Saturday, August 9 in Cutler, Lubec and Campobello Island. The souvenir map will be given to everyone who takes part on the semi self-guided tour of the area’s five lighthouses.
The colorful map, designed by Cutler artist, Pam Britton, shows major roads and scenes of the area and will be stamped at each lighthouse location. Five stamps are needed to complete the Challenge in order to get the Certificate of Completion.
The Challenge will begin at Head Harbour Lighthouse on Campobello Island and finish at Little River Lighthouse in Cutler. The map, depicting all five Challenge lighthouses will also appear on the free tote bags that will be given to people as part of their $15.00 registration fee for the event. It will also be on souvenir items that will be available for purchase for the Lighthouse Challenge at Head Harbour Lighthouse on Campobello Island, Little River Light in Cutler and at West Quoddy Head Light in Lubec.
Although a large number of people from outside of Maine have already signed up for the event, the three nonprofit groups that have planned the Lighthouse Challenge hope that it will also create local, home-grown, tourism to the area. “It is the perfect event for local people to take part in, kind of a mini-vacation, but close to home,” said Junia Lehman of the West Quoddy Head Light Keeper’s Association in Lubec.
Although you won’t be able to climb the tower at Mulholland Light on Campobello Island, the tower will be open for a rare glimpse inside. However, the event will include a boat ride to visit Little River Lighthouse, which is on an island in Cutler’s harbor and a lighthouse that very few people have ever visited. West Quoddy Light in Lubec and Head Harbour Light on Campobello Island will also be open for tours and tower climbs, weather permitting.
Machias Savings Bank, and the University of Maine, Machias, and Lighthouse Digest Magazine of Whiting are sponsoring the Lights Across the Border lighthouse event which is being hosted by the Friends of Head Harbour Lighthouse, West Quoddy Head Light Keepers Association and the Friends of Little River Lighthouse, a chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation.
The sponsors and host groups are proud of the fact that this is the first international lighthouse challenge to be held anywhere in the world. It was patterned after similar events held each year in New Jersey, Maryland, and Long Island, New York.Registration for the August 9th event is $15.00 per person and includes a free Lights Across the Border tote bag with goodies, the tower climbs and the free boat ride to Cutler’s Little River Lighthouse.
Registration fee can be mailed to Lights Across the Border, P.O. Box 671, East Machias, ME 04630 or you can register on-line at www.LittleRiverLight.org or by calling 207-259-3833.
Event pamphlets are available at Owen House on Campobello Island, West Quoddy Gifts in Lubec, Machias Area Chamber of Commerce in Machias, Machias Savings Bank in Machias, and various other locations. They are also available by mail for a $2.00 fee.
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