There is plenty of interest out there. We just have to stimulate it. That's why I go back to the need for accessibility. That's going to keep it in the public eye. After the lighthouse was automated, the Coast Guard offered the now-obsolete keeper's house to the city.
Local records indicate city officials did nothing.
A vintage postcard shot of the Rockland Breakwater, showing the state to which volunteers would like to restore the structure. By 1973, the Coast Guard was apparently ready to raze the wood, brick and stone lighthouse. After all, bureaucrats reasoned, sailors need nothing more than a light on a pole to guide them. The breakwater light was spared when the nearby Samoset Resort, realizing that a lighthouse is a great attraction for guests, agreed to lease the property. The hotel's interest in maintaining a lighthouse waned, however, and responsibility reverted to the Coast Guard.