A Lighthouse Keeper Hangs Up Her Bonnet
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A Lighthouse Keeper Hangs Up Her Bonnet
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#2What a wonderful calling to have had in life.
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#3Robert Eggers' "The Lighthouse" would have appeared in a completely different light with her as the lighthouse keeper instead of William Dafoe.
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#4It's a children's book, but I bet Sally Snowman would love Hello Lighthouse [1], winner of the 2019 Caldecott Medal. It's a huge hit with my kids and adults who read to them, including me.
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#5> .. as the only female lighthouse keeper in the Boston Light’s 307-year history.
Maybe its a Boston thing but there's been plenty of women lighthouse keepers in the rest of the US for 250 years:
https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by-Topic/Notable-People/...
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#6It's a children's book, but I bet Sally Snowman would love Hello Lighthouse [1], winner of the 2019 Caldecott Medal. It's a huge hit with my kids and adults who read to them, including me. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Lighthouse
Thanks for the mention. Have ordered the book for one of my grand kids for Valentine's Day.
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#7> .. as the only female lighthouse keeper in the Boston Light’s 307-year history. Maybe its a Boston thing but there's been plenty of women lighthouse keepers in the rest of the US for 250 years: https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by-Topic/Notable-People/...
I would assume Boston had relatively few lighthouses due to not having that much shoreline, but I am not sure how to look that up.
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#8> .. as the only female lighthouse keeper in the Boston Light’s 307-year history. Maybe its a Boston thing but there's been plenty of women lighthouse keepers in the rest of the US for 250 years: https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by-Topic/Notable-People/...
I would assume Boston had relatively few lighthouses due to not having that much shoreline, but I am not sure how to look that up.
Right, Boston proper doesn't have any lighthouses actually. This one is technically in Hull, MA. It's the lighthouse for Boston Harbor, and it's also the first lighthouse built in the US. The first tower on the site was built in 1716, though as the article says, that was torn down by the patriots, rebuilt and then blown up by the British in the revolutionary war. This one was built after the war in 1783.
It's been kind of a fantasy for me to live in this lighthouse, I'm very tempted to apply for the job. Too bad it's not possible to live there anymore.
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#9> .. as the only female lighthouse keeper in the Boston Light’s 307-year history. Maybe its a Boston thing but there's been plenty of women lighthouse keepers in the rest of the US for 250 years: https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by-Topic/Notable-People/...
I would assume Boston had relatively few lighthouses due to not having that much shoreline, but I am not sure how to look that up.
There are actually a number of lighthouses in Boston Harbor. Historically, there had been many more. Some are described at the National Park Service website: https://www.nps.gov/boha/learn/historyculture/lighthouses.ht...
Not all of these are "lighthouses", per se. Nixes Mate is actually just a concrete-and-paint reflector: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixes_Mate
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#10Every lighthouse I've visited in California has a small automated light attached somewhere to it which is the real navigation aid, and everything else is just a history museum now.