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Heron Neck Light

Near Vinalhaven, Maine

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Bibliography

Caldwell, Bill. Lighthouses of Maine. Portland, ME: Gannett Books, 1986.

Clifford, J. Candace, and Mary Louise Clifford. Maine Lighthouses: Documentation of Their Past. Alexandria, VA: Cypress Communications 2005.

Crowninshield, Mary Bradford. All Among the Lighthouses. Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1886.

Curtis, Abigail. "Team Brings Technology to Lighthouses." Bangor Daily News, November 25, 2005.

DeRaps, Ernest G. and Pauline E. DeRaps. Lighthouse Keeping / Light Housekeeping. Wells, ME: FogHorn Publishing, 2006.

Down East, "Penobscot Bay lighthouse faces automation." July 1978.

Harrison, Timothy. "Coast Guard to destroy historic light station." Lighthouse Digest, December-January 1992.

Harrison, Tim. "Mystery Surrounds The Death of Maine Keeper." Lighthouse Digest, June 2004.

Hidlay, William C. "Light Lovers: Heron Neck Symbol of Neglect." New Hampshire Sunday News, October 20, 1991.

Keeper's Log, "Heron Neck Burns." Summer 1989.

McLane, Charles B. Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Volume 1: Penobscot Bay. Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House, Publishers, and Rockland, ME: Island Institute, 1997.

Portland Press Herald, August 2, 1948. "Notice to Mariners."

Portland Press Herald, November 9, 1948. "Dragger Fannie Belle Sunk in Collision."

Shore Village Museum Newsletter #1-94, April 11, 1994.

Wilson, J. K. "The Fog-Bark of Heron Neck." Lighthouse Digest, December 1999.

Interview with former Coast Guard keeper Paul Manning, April 1998.

Email correspondence with former Coast Guard keeper Jim Woods, May 2002.

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