The Night Shift at Cape Hatteras
In 1999, Kevin Duffus interviewed one of the last living lighthouse keepers from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The old keeper described his nightly routine with...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Mark 13:24-37.
In 1999, Kevin Duffus interviewed one of the last living lighthouse keepers from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The old keeper described his nightly routine with startling precision: trim the wick at sunset, wind the clockwork mechanism every four hours, polish the Fresnel lens at midnight, and never — not once — let the light go dark. Ships depended on it.…
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