Dear Editor: On Sept. 9, my family and I went on the Burnt Island Lighthouse tour for the Maine Lighthouse Day. We were given two hours to complete the tour. Upon arrival a sign stated the Lighthouse tours began at 10 a.m. We explored some of the.
On Wednesday, June 14, Friends of the Southport Historical Society welcomed members and the public to Southport Town Hall for their annual meeting. This year also featured a lecture on the history of Burnt Island Lighthouse led by Jean McKay,.
In the 1800s, when the ocean was the highway, the Boothbay region’s four lighthouses (Burnt Island, Hendricks Head, Ram Island, and Cuckolds) served as signposts guiding vessels safely in and out of port. At a time when the nation’s economy revolved.
Fall is well underway, as is exhibit design at the Maine State Aquarium. We are designing new exhibits to highlight the “who, what, why and how” of the Department Marine Resources – who our researchers are, what research they are conducting, why it.
Maine summer camps. There are 125 of them according to MaineSummerCamps.org. You can scour the listings, but there is only one summer camp on an island in the ocean – Burnt Island, part of Southport Island. Burnt Island’s history of summer camps.