Marshall Point Lighthouse

Film to take tour of Maine lighthouses

GREENE – Michael Perry will present a slide film, “Lighthouses of Maine Part II,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 19, and 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, June 20, at the Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial, 371 Sawyer Road. Admission is free.

Perry is founder-director of Dreams Unlimited, specializing in multi-media slide programs about traveling for retirement communities, schools and civic groups. He has written many articles about the outdoors for national publications.

During his 20-year career at L.L. Bean, he founded and managed the Outdoor Discovery School, the outdoor education component of L.L. Bean.

Perry was one of the first recipients of the “Bean’s Best” award, given annually to those employees selected by their peers who excel in the area of customer, profit or productivity. Perry was honored for his excellence in the customer category.

Perry loves the outdoors and enjoys a wide variety of outdoor activities. He and his wife have biked across the United States three times, the most recently from San Francisco to Philadelphia.

He has climbed Alaska’s Mt. McKinley, participated in the 1990 Mt. Everest Peace Climb, paddled his sea kayak from Maine to New York City and run in the Boston Marathon three times.

Perry is a 1974 graduate of Bowdoin College and lives with his wife, Chris, and black lab, Hardee, in Freeport.

Perry will take the audience on a journey along the coast of Maine from Penobscot Bay to the lobstering communities of Jonesport and Beals, where the locals claim “fog was invented.”

Along the way they will visit all shapes and sizes of lights, offshore and on the mainland. Maine features 64 lighthouses. The program focus will be on the more remote lights in the Acadia National Park region and the lights east of Ellsworth. The audience will also kayak out to Vinalhaven Island and Isle au Haut to view lighthouses overlooking Penobscot Bay and the Camden Hills.