The Lighthouse Keeper of Cape Hatteras

In 1999, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse faced an impossible situation. The Atlantic Ocean had swallowed six hundred feet of shoreline, and waves crashed just fifteen feet from the foundation. Engineers proposed something no one had ever attempted — moving the entire 4,830-ton structure half a mile inland, inch by inch. For twenty-three days, hydraulic jacks nudged the 129-year-old lighthouse along steel rails at a pace slower than a child's crawl.…