AD LIVING TO THE LIGHTHOUSE A UNIQUE SUMMER RETREAT ON MAINE'S BEAR ISLAND Text by Susan Mary Alsop/Photography by Story Litchfield LEFT: "It was in terrible BELOW: The shape," Fabiola Mar- acre island's I tens says of Bear Island house and ad Lighthouse in Maine, keeper's hous which she restored were built in with her husband, set above a ro Dr. Martin Morad. named Marti lighthouse and keeper's house, shed/outhouse, a generator hous boathouse. Lack of funds pre proper maintenance, and in 198 decided to sell or lease these str and the land around them at auction. The condition of some buildings was deplorable, for th been years of abandonment and It happened that a romantic an geous couple were eager to take T HE RESIDENTS OF THE SMALL the beautiful little island the lighthouse task of restoration. Martin Mo: town of Northeast Harbor, stood on had memories for everyone. born in Tehran, educated in Eur Maine, were sad when the news "There's Bear Island; we're nearly home," the United States, and is a prof came in the mid-seventies that Bear Is- the incoming sailor would cry on seeing pharmacology and medicine at ( land Lighthouse would be automated the familiar cliffs looming ahead, or, town University, specializing in h and the keeper's house closed down. For "Watch it-the fog is SO heavy that I search. His wife, Fabiola Martens navigational purposes a lighted buoy can't even see Bear!" gian by birth and a former lawye would be perfectly adequate to serve In 1987 the National Park Service took now an interior designer in Geor mariners approaching the harbor, but over the property, which included the continued on 122