Im not doing this because I was touched by an angel, or because I feel guilty about making too much money, he said. 4 To ease the burden, two assistant keepers, the stations first, were assigned to Boon Island in 1855. I thought that spending my time making more money wasnt going to make my life better, he told me. Part way to the tower, the dory sprang a leak. Sometimes nothing makes them happy. Among other things, the lighthouse needs to be repointed and sealed up. Brazil. Works at Self-Employed. From 1897 to 1905, his son, Charles S. Williams was first assistant, following his promotion from second assistant. I have been hear 13 years and 4 months 28 days and never see such a time before. Keepers at Boon Island occasionally assisted mariners who found themselves in dire circumstances near the station. Pigeon Point Lighthouse, Pescadero, California. Find your friends on Facebook. You have to be pretty creative to live in an offshore lighthouse in the first place. A new, forty-nine-foot-tall granite tower with an octagonal wrought-iron lantern was built by Colonel Seward Merrill for $3,406.65 in 1831. Sager grew up in Malden, on the North Shore of Massachusetts, so maybe he just has that same nostalgia-fueled fascination. (Photo: Javaris Johnson/Snipezart). But when you own a lighthouse, the repairs are never really done. But he acknowledges his new role, and its uncertainty. A Notice of Availability, dated June 30, 2009, announced that Minots Ledge Lighthouse, deemed excess by the Coast Guard, was being offered at no cost to eligible entities, including federal, state, and local agencies, non-profit corporations, and educational organizations under the provisions of the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000. Shoals, Reefs, Harbor Lights, Islands in Rivers and Harbors. The identity of the new owner was soon revealed to be Bobby Sager, a Boston philanthropist and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Polaroid. 265 to 440 Breathing the salty clean winter air, out in the middle of the harbor, we stand in front of his time machine. He amassed 13 units in a luxury Boston high-rise to create for himself a spacious, highly individualized home occupying three floors. In 1816, keepers salaries varied from $150 per year at Plymouth Lighthouse to a well-deserved high at Boon Island of $400. Seacoasts, Sounds, River Entry, Bays, Channels, Range Lights. Some time around 1a.m. Florence Idella Batty: Memories of Maines Boon Island,, Keeper of the Light Was Painter of the Light,. Lets talk about something more serious, more substantial, suggested Sager, 62, sporting a gray T-shirt, dark slacks, and stocking feet. Therefore on these considerations I feel myself inadequate to the task, unless government will supply me with some of the above stated articles.. Pier or Breakwater Lights in Harbors. He says no. The need for a beacon at the ledge was not lost on lighthouse inspector I.W.P. Were all here for such a short time. Instead, Swift proposed a radical new design consisting of nine, sixty-foot-long iron pilings cemented five feet into the submerged rock, atop which would perch the lantern and keepers dwelling. The museum has the following table of lens sizes posted. You realize they had it all figured out long ago, says Waller, now a pro at finding the right tools and the right people. For the Graves lighthouse, Waller dove in again, pinching pennies. #ada-button-frame { Navigation has largely transitioned to mariner-operation systems. Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, North Carolina, is traditionally open for climbing the stairs, though closed periodically in recent years for restoration. Its finding ways to reverse 40 years of dark and dirty neglect1970s linoleum curling up over rotted wood, rusted metal walls, wilting sheets of paint. The island is a bare rock; communication with the coast is infrequent in winter, and the keepers have had to store their vegetables and provisions in the halls adjoining their bed-rooms. The same report also noted that the vibration of the slender tower had been checked by installing six iron ties with struts that were attached to the top of the lantern and anchored to the masonry 40 feet below the watch-room deck.. As early as 1695, a schooner crashed on those treacherous rocks and sank, leaving no survivors. Sri Lanka. 3,530 On April 16, 1851, the fierce winds of a noreaster left the tower reeling in the pounding seas and blinding snow. Of course placement of the granite blocks was conducted only at low tide when the sea was calm; even so, many times construction workers were swept off the rocks by the waves. As work could only be carried out a low tide and during calm seas, workmen could only be on the rock for 157, 130, and 208 hours respectively during the seasons of 1855, 1856, and 1857. His own piece of the Big Bang sits near the Harley-Davidson motorcycle that music legend Sting gave him as a gift, not far from a bathroom ripped from a Boeing 747 and reconstructed high above Tremont Street. Saugerties Lighthouse on the Hudson River, in upstate New York, offers overnight accommodation. To date, 82 lighthouses have been transferred to public entities and nonprofits, and 66 have been sold for $8.2 million total. Several keepers were convinced that the ghosts of the two doomed assistant keepers still resided in the lighthouse, sending signals to each other, cleaning the lens, and warning others of the dangers presented by Minots Ledge. He also envisions it as a place where representatives of societies that wage war against each other, that commit unspeakable atrocities, can sit across from each other and find common ground. Two water tanks, weighing about four tons each, were lifted off their granite foundations and carried a distance of seventy-five feet to the northeast end of the island and totally wrecked. Florence related a similar experience had by Keeper Harold Hutchins. Perhaps its best that the lighthouse has been left for the ghosts to inhabit in solitude. In the old days, a light keeper lit the lens and hand-cranked weights to rotate the light, each sending out an identification signal or patternGravess is two white flashes every twelve secondsto guide mariners to shore, back where we came from in East Boston. Crossing back over the bridge, we make our way up: five spiral clangy metal flights; past a bunk room, the keepers quarters, and a third-floor kitchen; and to the lantern room. Ruth Abbott Carley, who met Gordon B. Kenny at the USO on Boston Common and was dating the coastguardsman while he was stationed at Boon Island Lighthouse in 1951 to 1952, kindly provided the images embedded in this paragraph. which houses part of a third-order Fresnel lens used in the lighthouse can be seen at Government Island in Cohasset. Sometime after this, the light was dubbed the I-LOVE-YOU light do to its unique 1-4-3 flash pattern. Keeper Williams was inside the tower worrying about what he and his boys could enjoy the next day, when suddenly there was a crash on the parapet deck. (Photo: Shane Sager). The living quarters were also damaged, and boulders were swept onto the island. I had read that. When youre out here, the whole world stops, as far as youre concerned, says Waller. It is old and its interior is in bad condition, needing thorough renovation. The message: I dont do charity. I want to live the fullest possible life.. A brand of on-the-ground and up-close philanthropy that assesses needs and then fashions programs to meet them. Waller has been coming here from his home in Malden at least twice a month for eight years. White Shoal Light, Lake Michigan With an asking bid of $15,000, this delightful candy cane of a lighthouse has been made famous for its representation on the "Save Our Lights . In February 1936, Tornberg and a Cohasset boatman set off in a small dory for the lighthouse, as Cohasset Harbor was frozen in preventing the use of a power launch. This photo is from 1910. Minots was constructed to replace an earlier light, which was swept away in a storm. When he ran out of money a year into the renovation, he teamed up with another original bidder who matched his million, a local businessman named Bobby Sager, who has hosted celebrities like Sting and Tom Hanks at Graves. First Assistant: Joseph Wilson (1850 1851), Thatcher W. Ryder (1860), Andrew W. Williams (1861 1862), Thomas Bates II (1862 1864), Israel Vinal (1864 1865), Levi L. Creed (1865 1866), John A. Pratt (1866 1868), Levi L. Creed (1868 1874), Albert H. Burdick (1874 1877), Thomas J. Sheridan (1877 1880), Joseph B. Vinal (1880 1881), Alonzo Smith (1881), Nathan S. Hudson (1881), Frank W. Thomas (1881 1883), Albert H. Burdick (1883 1892), Joseph E. Frates (1892 1909), Levi B. Clark (1909 1910), Octavius H. Reamy (1910 1915), Henry M. Bailey (1915 at least 1916), Charles R. Albrecht (at least 1917), Roland F. Bassett (at least 1919 at least 1921), Francis R. Macy (1922 1923),Per F. Tornberg (1923 1924), George H. Fitzpatrick (1925 1927), Harold L. Havender (1927), Anthony Souza (at least 1935 at least 1936), Elton H. Hegarty (1938 1940), Patrick J. One exception is the countrys actual last official lightkeeper still working for the Coast Guard: Her name is Sally Snowman, and her job and second home, Boston Light, are in jeopardy. In this design, interlocking granite blocks were placed on foundation stones weighing two tons each. Grover was cleared in court, but the accusations, and other difficulties, would continue. Morris, his wife, their two-year-old son, and two coastguardsmen sought refuge in a small, sturdy structure, and a helicopter was dispatched to drop food to them after the waves subsided. The keepers quarters, fog bell, and a replica of the lantern room Shoals, Reefs, Harbor Lights, Islands in Rivers and Harbors. One has to have a varied knowledge of things to be a lightkeeper. I heard a plane just now, but therell be days when theres just the rise and fall of the tide and the wind.. Thomas Farragher is a Globe columnist. And with that, the discussion about lighthouses and meteorites was over for the moment. 17.5 He plans to knock down one ceiling to combine two floors into one, transforming it into a panoramic conference room sort of a majestic aquatic meeting space. Some sit submerged under the waters of the Chesapeake Bay or are about to topple over in the Great Lakes. The illuminating apparatus was changed in 1885 to burn mineral oil instead of lard oil, and then in 1894, a new second-order Fresnel lens was installed atop the lighthouse. The catch? I barely know how to read a nautical chart (although there is an app for that), and sometimes, even though its irrational, that feels like a loss. God bless you all. The body of Joseph Antoine washed ashore later at Nantasket. The lights base, an almost invisible outcropping of rocks off Cohasset, Massachusetts, has plagued mariners for more years than the light has protected them. The first man offered the position refused. Indeed life inside the lighthouse did prove precarious. On December 21, 1917, Head Keeper Octavius Reamy was approaching the lighthouse in a motorboat loaded with provisions and fuel obtained on the mainland, when a large wave overturned his vessel. The new lights characteristic was fixed white, and a fog bell mounted on the gallery encircling the lantern room, was tolled once every thirty seconds as needed. They try to put them in the hands of groups that will keep them open to the public, but sometimes, like in Minots case, no public entity wants the responsibility. 6th Although this request was repeated for over a decade, a fog horn did not replace the bell until around 1960. One promising exception is Graves Light Station, offshore from Boston, which has outlasted the Perfect Storm, among many poundings. Donovan (1895), Charles G. Everett (1895 1905), Ernest H. Small (1905 1909), Vivian A. Currier (1909 1910), Eugene N. Larsen (1910 1911), Fred M. Pease (1911 at least 1912), Percy A. Evans (at least 1939 1940). Their goal? We went all in, he says. Hes rechinked the granite blocks to make it watertight, and put in running water and electricity. In 2000, the GSA, the Coast Guard and the Department of the Interior passed The National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act, an amendment to the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. When I accepted the post, I closed my ears against the reports of the former keeper, treating them (as I now find) too lightly, and here I shall remain so long as a vestige of the lighthouse remains; but the truth must be told. Owner/site manager: private. Second Assistant: Samuel Tobey (1855 1856), Josiah Tobey Jr. (1856 1859), John S. Baker (1859), Enos Gray (1859 1861), S. Tobey (1861 1864), George E. Bridges (1864 1865), Charles Ramsdell (1865 1868), Samuel R. McLorn (1868), Luther Amazeen (1868 1870), Nathan White, Jr. (1870 1874), Edwin J. Hobbs (1874 1876), David R. Grogan (1876 1878), George O. Leavitt (1878 1880), Paschal Fernald (1880 1881), Orrin M. Lamprey (1881 1885), William C. Williams (1885 1886), James Burke (1886 1888), Leonidas H. Sawyer (1888 1890), Charles W. Torry (1890), Walter S. Amee (1891 1893), William M. Brooks (1893), Alvah J. Toby (1893 1894), James Hawe (1894), Joseph A. Pruett (1894 1896), Charles S. Williams (1896 1897), Meshach M. Seaward (1897 1900), Merton E. Tolman (1900), Henry C. Neal (1900 1902), Frank L. Peabbles (1902), Leroy L. Myers (1902), James R. Faulkingham (1902 1903), William T. Stevens (1903 1904), Mitchell Blackwood (1905), William Henry Burns (1905 1907), Charles Whitten Allen (1907 1911), Fuller E. Larrabee (1912 1913), Charles A. Radley (1913), Albert Staples (1914 at least 1915), Roscoe M. Chandler (1916 1917), Harry M. Kelley (1917 1919), George E. Woodward (1919 1920), Arthur E. Ginn (at least 1921), Eugene L. Coleman (1923 1924), Myron L. Wilson (1924 1925), Andrew H. Kennedy (1925 1928), Fred C. Batty (1930), Frank M. Rumery (1930 ), Howard W. Gray (1932 1934), Hoyt P. Smith (1935 1936), Harry H. McClure (1936 1937), Henry S. Brown (1937 at least 1941), Calvin Dolby (1944 1945), Russell G. Carpenter (at least 1945), Clifford Gustavson (at least 1947), Charles Kendrick Capon (1951 1953), Harold L. Roberts (1956), Ron Schultz (1959). The island in the morning was one of the grandest sights I ever witnessed. I feel irrationally possessive of Minots light, even though Ive never been in the tower. She is shaking a good three feet each way as I write. Located at 61-1/2 Water Street near Independent Street in downtown Newburyport, about 0.4 mile (650 m) east of US 1. Sager has been taking photos of youngsters from war-torn countries for several years now, as he and his family have traveled the world practicing what he calls "eyeball-to-eyeball philanthropy.". Though the government has the right to reject all bids if it believes a fair market price has not been achieved, the $78,000 bid was approved a few weeks after the auction closed, and the lighthouse was awarded to Arthur Girard a real estate developer from Portland, Maine. The tower itself and its fourteen windows, which were sealed shut, were leaky. Think not that I will ever flinch from my post, though the waves should gain the mastery for which they are so incessantly striving. In 1910, a keeper named Elliot Hadley described the conditions he saw during a storm: Ive looked up at solid water rushing in toward the ledges. On October 13th, Bobby Sager, Polaroid's chairman, won the auction and bought the lighthouse for $222,000. The interior was damp. In March 1812, Thomas Hanna, grandfather of Marcus Hanna who would receive notoriety as keeper at Cape Elizabeth, agreed to man the light for $300 per year, plus a $100 advance for provisions. The island is now owned by philanthropist and lighthouse enthusiast Bobby Sager. In winter, ice covered the stone buildings, even capping the chimney of the dwelling on one occasion. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff Graves Light sits on a rocky ledge in the middle of Boston Harbor, surrounded by water. View Bobby Sager results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Current Address: KVFV Alaminos Dr, Santa Clarita, CA. He imagines his family gathering there on sultry summer nights, the reflection of a full moon dazzling like diamonds on the Atlantic. The stone dwelling designed for two keepers is occupied by three, two of whom have families. But Waller, who has been in close touch with him because Sager was the other bidder for the Graves light, says that hes talked to him about his plans, and that, for now, hes going to leave it untouched. an immediate left onto Government Island where you will see the lantern room replica. Sager acquired Minots Ledge Lighthouse at auction later in 2014 and then Michigans Grays Reef Lighthouse in 2016. Head: Isaac Dunham (1849 1850), John W. Bennett (1850 1851), Joshua Wilder, Jr. (1860 1861), James J. Sign Up. Eventually, they will probably divest of almost every lighthouse property, with a few exceptions., DEntremont predicts that in 50 years only a small number of lighthouses, if any, will still be used for any navigation. Keeper Per S. Tornberg, who was in charge of the lighthouse from 1924 to 1936, had an even closer brush with death. Until construction of the new dwelling was completed in 1905, animosity festered, as was noted in a letter by First Assistant Charles W. Torry, charging the Keeper of that station with neglect of duty, in not properly keeping an account of oil expended at the station, and a waste of the Government property in throwing surplus oil away in order to make his account of expenditures tally. Apparently, no disciplinary action was taken against Keeper Williams; but Torry soon found himself unemployed. Naval Museum in Kittery, Maine where it may be viewed by the public. At the cost of your own life, you would keep that light lit, says Waller. When John Morris was in charge of Boon Island Lighthouse in December 1945, a similar storm struck the island. All the fresh water, wood and necessaries for a family must be carried on to the Island. Gallatin answered with a $100 salary increase. The Late Gale at Minots Rock Light, John W. Bennett, 1851. Part of that is nostalgia. lens, which had been removed from the tower in 1993, was given to the Kittery Historical and Not wanting to see the lens returned to the Coast Guard, the Greater York Region Chamber of Commerce held a raffle that generated $2,000, enough to pay the premium for two years. The Dalai Lama, Sting, and Bobby Sager at Sager's home in Boston in 2012. Arriving, we balance on periwinkles and barnacles to step from the dinghy onto a jetty, tie up to a piling, and walk 40 feet on slippery rocks to the base of the lighthouse. Since purchasing the lighthouse at a government auction seven years ago, Dave. Charles Williams, who served as first assistant to his father, had recently married and was celebrating his honeymoon on the island with his new bride. People name churches and rehab centers after them. The General Services Administration, which likes to call itself The Nations Landlord, is in charge of selling off any federal property thats deemed irrelevant. At our return to the house found all our water gone and all my turnips and cabage washt away and my walls all Down. Established in 1873, Yaquina Head Lighthouse, in Newport, Oregon, is the states tallest at 93 feet. Ive been knocked down by it on the wharf beside the light, and opening a window to look out more than halfway [65 feet] up the tower, Ive had as much as three buckets-full dashed in my face.. The U.S. General Services Administration, which is essentially the real estate arm of the government, was tasked with getting rid of it. Not long afterward, the station was automated, and the damaged dwelling was burned in 1981. Image courtesy of The Power of the Invisible Sun, by Bobby Sager.Last week Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, hosted a concert at Carnegie Hall to benefit the Rainforest Fund, the nonprofit they . Brides (1939 1940), Percy A. Evans (1940 1942). Here was the new iron light-house, then unfinished, in the shape of an egg-shell painted red, and placed high on iron pillars, like the ovum of a sea monster floating on the wavesWhen I passed it the next summer it was finished and two men lived in it, and a lighthouse keeper said that in a recent gale it had rocked so as to shake the plates off the table. In addition, a supply shed, measuring twelve by twenty feet, and a brick oil house were erected on the island. If you apply too much logic to itlook at the cost, the resale, and the amount of workit doesnt make sense, says Waller. Sager has agreed to share financial resources and Dave has agreed to share the lighthouse. The identity of the new owner was soon revealed to be Bobby Sager, a Boston philanthropist and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Polaroid. The wind reached nearly 100 miles per hour and stirred up waves that dashed against the dwelling and tower, coating them in thick layers of ice. A crew of Portuguese fishermen swore they saw a figure hanging on to an outer ladder shouting at them in their own language to keep away, and many local fishermen have reported hearing moans and cries for help coming from the base of the lighthouse. 1,985 Pakistan. Eight months pregnant with my father, my grandma pointed a skiff out into the teeth of a noreaster to tie down her boat, the Little Gull, under the flash of the light. He can be reached at, the government had auctioned it off in 2014. For the past 150 years the lighthouse has warned boaters about the shallow, shipwrecking rocks close to shore, but recently the Coast Guard decided it wasnt relevant anymore, and this fall the light became private property. On October 13th, Bobby Sager, Polaroids chairman, won the auction and bought the lighthouse for $222,000. Largest Seacoast Lights. Thomas Farragher is a Globe columnist. It's not just the Minot's Ledge lighthouse that's changing hands. Be selfish. (8 minutes) Bobby Sager thinks in bulk. To improve the conditions described in 1888, the exterior of the stone dwelling was torn out and rearranged, and a frame upper story was added to the dwelling. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for INVISIBLE SUN BOBBY SAGER RIZZOLI NEW YORK SIGNED BOOK RARE at the best online prices at eBay! Background Report for Shad Gary Sager. Brides (1940 at least 1942) . Follow him on Twitter @FarragherTom. On May 16, 2012, Boon Island Lighthouse was made available under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000 to eligible federal, state, and local agencies, non-profit corporations, educational agencies, and community development organizations to be used for educational, recreational, cultural, or historic preservation purposes. Minots has a good story, but its not the only one thats been celebrated. As far as the preservation of lighthouses as historic monuments, Im optimistic about the ones that are tourist attractions being saved, he says. Hanna soon realized the sum was insufficient and requested $450 annually. About 100 years ago there were more than 1,000, according to the U.S. Lighthouse Society, and now 850 are still standing. We walk the fresh pale planks, turn around, and I see it why Waller would throw down the most moneyjust shy of a million dollarsever spent privately on a lighthouse. After three years spent cutting the rock to form a foundation, the first six courses of the lighthouse were laid, dovetailed, and dowelled together in 1858. When the Coast Guard, which now owns only a small percentage of lighthouses, no longer needs a lighthouse, the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act facilitates a transfer with right of first refusal, at no cost, to a public or nonprofit organization. The underside for the placement of the fresnel lens, Graves Light. His wife Florence recalled that in lieu of indoor toilets, each of the three families would cut off the tops of five-gallon tins of kerosene oil and place them in an outhouse. . Its not just the Minots Ledge lighthouse thats changing hands. Stories about the lighthouse dovetailed with our familys history. In the case of the lens built for Minots Ledge, the number 143 was produced by eight flash panels that created three groups of flashes: the first showing one flash, the next four flashes, and the last three flashes. No. With no takers and erosion at its base, the 86-foot Kauhola Point Lighthouse in Hawaii was demolished altogether in 2009. Minots blinks 143, so people call it the I Love You Light, and before Ray J made it a bad R&B song, my parents would sign letters and then send texts 143. Every year storms seem to do more damage. The glacier land (called drumlins) under both the tower and the keepers house, where Snowman, 71, lived half the year for almost 20 years maintaining the place and giving tours, is shrinking. Phone Number: (661) 296-MJKV. In the near distance, like a stony sentinel a mile off Cohasset, Minots Ledge Light rises out of the Atlantic, beaming its famous sequence one flash (pause), four flashes (pause), three flashes (pause) charmingly decoded as I love you.. The rain would be allowed to wash off the roof where all the seagulls sat every daythen at the foot of the downdrains from thereof, a cup would be turned up to catch the water that came down the drainpipes. Robert Sager is an American philanthropist and photographer, best known for founding the Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Roadshow, a charitable organization. But he is. Waller on the bridge between structures, on the lighthouse acreage. Fun? Bobby Sager says, repeating my question. Vessels mostly use satellite, GPS, and radar to dodge rocks, avoid the bottom of the ocean or bay, and dock safely in a harbor, even if someespecially small boatsstill rely on lighthouses as visual aids, like buoys. After a year on the island, Keeper Hanna wrote the following threat: unless the Government provides for me and my family as agreed, I shall on the first day of April leave this place. Hannas request was forwarded to Secretary of Treasury Albert Gallatin with the following notation, it has been difficult to get anyone who would consent to accept the appointment as keeper for the compensation allowed. He can be reached at thomas.farragher@globe.com. I get the lighthouse obsession from both sides. She spent a summer visiting lights along the eastern seaboard. Yes. From there it would run into a cistern in the cellar. It offers stair-climbing tours in summer, and other months as staffing and conditions allow. A bell-buoy was placed on Boon Island Ledge, about three miles east of Boon Island, starting in 1858 to mark this navigational hazard. When we have high tides with big storms, we actually become two islands. The damage has limited public access in recent years, and at the bottom of the cliff below the lighthouse, rock-filled cages, used as protection from erosion until they were ripped out of the ground in 2018 by a storm, roll around like tumbleweedsmaking the future of Boston Light even more ominous. Nepal. What kind of a guy, Fine. Thats what makes me optimistic that the right entity is out there to work that kind of magic on Boston Light. She and some lighthouse preservationists hope Boston Light will go to the National Park Service, especially since the station is located within the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park Area, but theres no telling what will happen over the next year or two. The Coast Guard has already divested the vast majority of offshore lighthouses, says DEntremont. When a whale went by, spouting, Id make believe that was my submarine. And Harold Hutchins daughter Shirley Kelley said: As a kid, it was my idea of Paradise! At first, Boon Island was barely able to attract and retain a keeper. You cant determine those things, theyre unknown. Great Lakes Lighthouses, Seacoasts, Islands, Sounds. He says he didnt have any solid reason for buying it, just that same deep-seated nostalgia and a long-standing but loose family tie. White Shoal Light. There was always something to do on the island. 3 south from Boston, to Route 228. When I reach Snowman at her home base in the Boston suburb of Weymouth, she tells me, Were seeing the most erosion down in the valley in between them. She did chores, roller skated on the islands boardwalk, searched tide-pools, worshipped with the family every evening, and picnicked on Sundays. At the bridge, I can finally move laterally, my soles sinking into the planks, and I tell Waller, with only 13 feet left, I dont like heights. We cross the bridge to the former oil room he turned into a guest house. At $300,000, Minots Ledge Lighthouse was one of the most expensive lighthouses in American history. * Newburyport Harbor Range Front (relocated) 1873. Since the act passed, theyve transferred ownership of 68 lighthouses to non-profits and historical commissions for free, and sold 39. Life for the keepers of Minots Ledge Lighthouse remained difficult, though not fatal. The inaccessibility of the station, especially during inclement weather, made the delivery of supplies difficult, and visiting the mainland sometimes impossible. Two lighthouse keepers were killed when it went down and theyre said to haunt the new house. A few years ago, the mooring was ripped out of the ocean floor by a gale, and a breaker dragged Dave Wallers boat, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter he bought used, into the shoal below the lighthouse.
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