MaineBusiness.com

TV and film star Foghorn J. Leghorn came out of retirement to make a rare personal appearance to Cutler, Maine’s remote Little River Island Lighthouse for the 2nd Annual Lights Across the Border International Lighthouse Challenge and Maine Open Lighthouse Day that took place on Saturday, September 12.

Organizers of the event said that famous rooster came to the island to help visitors find the island with his crowing from the top of the lighthouse in case the fog rolled in. However, he remained silent on his visit and never bellowed out one loud cock-a-doodle-doo.

Some of the volunteers of the event felt he didn’t crow because there was no fog, only blue sky that day. Others said he was intimated by the many seals that were showing off in the waters around the island.

However, the consensus of most people was that it must have been his age that kept him from crowing. As one person said, “Foggy has been crowing since his first film appearance in the 1946 Henery Hawk classic film Walky Talky Hawky and since then he made nearly 30 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies movies that he has been crowing in over and over for the past 60 years.”

Some people had hoped he would show up with famous athlete Michael Jordan who he starred with in the 1996 movie Space Jam.

It is unknown if Warner Brothers, the company that owns Foghorn J. Leghorn’s contract, approved of his personal appearance at Little River Lighthouse. Whatever the case, Foggy didn’t stay long and before anyone realized it, he flew off and disappeared back into the dusty vaults of cartoon-land.