Tumultuous Casco Bay from the Portland Head Lighthouse.Portland Head Light is a historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The light station sits on a head of land at the entrance of the primary shipping channel into Portland Harbor, which is within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. Completed in 1791, it is the oldest lighthouse in Maine.On Christmas Eve in 1886, the Annie C. Maguire ran aground on the rocky shoreline of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, just below the iconic Portland Head Light. The ever present tribute on those very rocks has been painted and repainted for135 years, the original letters inscribed there by the son of the lighthouse keeper whose family helped rescue the ship’s passengers and crew.
Beautiful setting for a wedding.
We visited with Scottish artist Kris Kristiansen, who with his Maine wife Marilyn ran an art store in Scotland for 25 years. They have since settled in Marilyn's family home in Cape Elizabeth. He sells his art in the lighthouse parking lot. This could be the very spot where Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was inspired to compose his poem "The Lighthouse." "Sail on. Sail on ye stately ships; And with your floating bridge the ocean span...."
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