The Lighthouse Keeper of Matinicus Rock
In 1853, a seventeen-year-old girl named Abbie Burgess took over the twin lighthouses on Matinicus Rock, a barren granite outcrop twenty-five miles off the coast...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Malachi 3:6.
In 1853, a seventeen-year-old girl named Abbie Burgess took over the twin lighthouses on Matinicus Rock, a barren granite outcrop twenty-five miles off the coast of Maine. Her father had sailed to the mainland for supplies and did not return for four months. Storms battered the island. Waves swallowed the chicken coop and clawed at the keeper's house. The food ran low.…
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