- Matt Rosenberg, a full -time English teacher, travels by boat to hold a maine lighthouse.
- Rosenberg appreciates the peace and tradition of seed retention, despite its physical demands.
- Automation in the 1990s made the Lighthouse Keeper Jobs almost obsolete in New England.
For the last 14 years, Matt Rosenberg has received an unusual way of transporting at his side concert after completing his day’s work as a high school teacher in York, Maine: A boat with a venue.
Rosenberg is one of the latest goalkeepers of the seeds in Maine, where he holds the Nubble Lighthouse, a popular tourist attraction that attracts a million visitors each year to York.
In 1889, there were over 70 seed holders throughout the Maine leading the life lanterns of the warning sailors of the light of dangerous conditions along the New England coastline. But automation in the 1990s made these work with full time almost outdated.
Rosenberg shared with Business Insider how his tasks are on a daily basis and why he loves his work so much.
His daily tasks by painting and repairing the seed seed
Thousands of tourists visiting the nubble farce are not actually allowed to tread their feet on the island. Rosenberg’s biggest challenge to keep Lighthouse function smoothly is keeping it safe from the environment.
“We are surrounded by salted water and in Maine we have a lot of fog and it carries a ton of moisture with it,” said Rosenberg, who is employed by the city of York. He said the wood is rotting constantly and the metal is turning into rust. He often has to repaint the seed of the seed.
Rosenberg has deceived Lighthouse-Holding along with his full-time work as a local English teacher. Matt Rosenberg
For Rosenberg, Nubble seed repair is a balance between updating the outdated infrastructure and preserving its history over 100 years.
“If we can’t go on with the paint, the rust eats it, and we grind it to stop the rust. But when you’re grinding, you’re grinding the story,” Rosenberg said. “So we have to be really careful to preserve what is there. Because after you lose that part, it’s no longer the same.
Nubble light sits on an island about 300 meters from the continent, making it difficult to transport supplies and make repairs. Few obstacles like leaving a box of screws to the shore are major breakdowns for projects in the lighthouse.
“It will take me more than an hour to get to the equipment store and return,” Rosenberg said he had to start his boat in his car to run small mistakes. Patience is a major part of his work and seeing his work until the end.
Being a seed goalkeeper is also a physically required job for Rosenberg. He is often only holding heavy building materials on the island beyond the treacherous terrain.
“Where I start the boat and land the boat, they are very slippery, the intersection,” he added.
A few times a week after school, Rosenberg will launch his white boat in Nubble Lighthouse on an island just on the continent. Matt Rosenberg
Rosenberg’s work is only seasonal from April to January because weather conditions on the island become unpredictable. The waves reach altitude over 20 meters during the Nor’easter storms in March and April.
“Energy lines are probably 70 meters above water,” Rosenberg said. “We’ve got them from the energy from the waves when they hit the shore and then go up to the power lines and twist them and drop them.”
Why does he love Lighthouse holding so much
Despite the challenges of being a seed worker, Rosenberg loves his work and wants to continue for the next decade in the sixties, as long as he is physically capable. He is paid $ 21 an hour to maintain popular tourist attraction, a task he describes as a love work.
“A lot of work brings you stress,” the 51-year-old said. “This job brings you peace because you are spending so much time in a beautiful place yourself.” Rosenberg occasionally sees wild life from a 20 -legged shark in a pregnant Doe born on the island.
Rosenberg sees cubs of stamps and adults throughout the year and volunteers with mammals of Maine to respond when the animals are ill or wounded. Matt Rosenberg
Autonomy and self-confidence are most part of Rosenberg’s daily life. He is proud to have been part of the Stewards Nubble Lighthouse tradition from the earliest days.
“They didn’t have running water, they didn’t have modern heat at the beginning of seed history,” Rosenberg said. “Lighthouse holders of that day were also the main rescue team for closeness.”
Victorian -style Lighthouse, with white painting with its ornamentation of ginger around the onions, stands ashore, a strong memory of the past that is simply out of the public.
Nubble Lighthouse attracts a million visitors to York every year. Matt Rosenberg
Rosenberg believes that the elusive nature of the seed is what continues to attract about a million visitors each year to their small town with 10,000 people.
Foot traffic has generated $ 800,000 on gross sale every year at the gift store, funding FAR adjustments, rather than using tax payer dollars. The latest storage project cost about $ 450,000 over five years, according to Rosenberg.
Lighthouse has been the subject of many of Rosenberg’s posts on Instagram, where he shares portraits of seed landscape in various seasons and his daily tasks with thousands of followers.
“What I have tried to do is give people the views of the seed they cannot have,” he said. “I think of it a kind as a snow globe where you just appreciate it in a different way because you can’t touch it.”