About the Site

Lighthouse News was created to collate news and the occasional feature story about lighthouses, often spiced with opinions and commentary on our coastal beacons. When this site was started, there was no single place to get news reports. Some sites had links to the original stories, but quite often those links would disappear in a week or two. Commenting on the stories is welcome and encouraged, as is email to the site owner.

Please feel free to contact me with lighthouse related questions. If I don’t know the answer, I will certainly do my best to find out. Submitting news of your own is also welcome, although I can’t guarantee everything sent me will be published online. Guest posts are also encouraged. Please contact me if you’re interested. Thanks for reading Lighthouse News.

About Sue

I have been interested in lighthouses since I was a little girl living on the Great Lakes of Michigan in the Thumb area (Caseville), and even more so after moving to Maine. I am a charter member of the Maine Lighthouse Museum, a docent and former secretary of the Friends of Pemaquid Point Lighthouse, and a member of the Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association and the American Lighthouse Foundation. My second marriage took place at Pemaquid Point Lighthouse in September of 2000.

As secretary of the FPPL, I designed and created the informational brochure, the advertising card, designed, wrote and printed the newsletter, designed and created the docent name badges, put a training program in place for new docents, created a member directory, coordinated the local celebration of National Lighthouse Day, and more. I helped in the restoration of the interior of the Pemaquid Lighthouse prior to its opening. Okay, so my oldest son Sean and another volunteer Caren Clark did the hammering and cutting type work. I did do some painting.

I have two adult children, an old dog and currently am employed as a Quality Control Technician at Dragon Cement Products in Thomaston, Maine. Please feel free to contact me through the contact page on this site.

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15 Trivial Things About Sue

1. My favorite lighthouses in Michigan were Pte. Aux Barques (Huron County) and Charity Island (Arenac County). One for its beauty (Pte. Aux Barques), and one (Charity Island) because it inspired me to try to never let another lighthouse get to that state.
2. I was an Emergency Medical Technician - Specialist in Michigan for 12 years, with 3 of them as a licensed EMS Instructor/Coordinator. I ran a very popular website during those years geared to EMS students and Instructors. A stripped down version is still able to be seen at the Internet Archives.
3. I love dogs, especially the Labrador Retrievers, and used to show them in Michigan. I currently only have one at the moment, a 12 year old Yellow female. I’m not a cat person, as a rule, but right now have the sweetest cat in the world, even if she’s not the best (or any kind of a) mouser.
4. I enjoy building and working on computers. If you need anything fixed or upgraded, give me a yell.
5. I was born in Detroit, MI, raised in Hamtramck and then East Detroit (Eastpointe), and moved to Holly, MI after getting married. Our family had a home in Caseville, MI, where I spent all my summers until I moved to Maine.
6. I love the color blue. But maybe you figured that out after seeing this site, eh?
7. All time favorite American car? A 1967 Camaro SS. Convertible. White.
8. Favorite car I owned? A 1970 Triumph Spitfire. Jaguar brown. Fun fun fun to drive.
9. I love to read. Mostly mysteries, thrillers, things like that. With a few Sci-Fi writers thrown into the mix. But if I could only have one set of books to read over and over, it would be the delightful books by James Herriot…All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Wise and Wonderful, The Lord God Made Them All.
10. I love to do crossword puzzles. In ink. And I am addicted to the British style of crossword known as Cryptic Crosswords. Word play rules!
11. I love to fish, although it’s mostly in the form of drowning worms, but I don’t do too much in Maine. I preferred fishing in Michigan. I miss that perch and walleye. And regular old panfish, too.
12. I love to go out on my canoe and just paddle down the Pemaquid River.
13. I love Halloween, and until health/mobility issues intervened the past two years I was one of the breed known as Home Haunters. But where I live now, we don’t get any Trick or Treaters anyway, so I decorated the roadside for the tourists driving to Pemaquid Point Lighthouse. And the locals.
14. My favorite lighthouses in Maine? Pemaquid Point, as it’s my “home” lighthouse, but I’ve recently fallen in love with Seguin Island Lighthouse, too. It’s truly magical out there.
15. If you’re in Maine, get in touch with me. I’d love to meet up with you and show you some of the lighthouses. And you might even be able to get a lobster or two from me. My son hauls lobsters for a living.

Let No Lighthouses Ever Be Harmed Again

Photo of Charity Island Lighthouse by CWBash