Harrison, Timothy ( - )

Genre: Non-Fiction

Timothy E. Harrison co-founded and is the editor of Lighthouse Digest Magazine and is the past president of the American Lighthouse foundation, a non-profit (which he also co-founded) dedicated to the preservation of the nation's lighthouses. In 2005, he was awarded one of the Coast Guard's highest awards given to a civilian -- the medal for Homeland Security's United States Coast Guard Meritorious Public Service Award -- for his work in saving America's lighthouses and their history. He lives in Whiting, ME.

Selected Bibliography

  • Lost Lighthouses: Stories and Images of America's Vanished Lighthouses (1999)
  • Endangered Lighthouses: Stories and Images of America's Disappearing Lighthouses (2001)
  • The Golden Age of American Lighthouses: A Nostalgic Look at U.S. Lights from 1850 to 1939 (2002)
  • Lighthouses of Maine: A Journey Through Time (DVD) (2003)
  • Lighthouses of the Sunrise County: Stories & Images of the People who Kept the Lighthouses in Washington County, Maine (2008)
  • Lighthouses of Bar Harbor and the Acadia Region (2009)

Selected Resources