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The Man Who Carried the Light to Whitson Head
Season 1
Episode 37
Published 1 month ago
Description
April 1997, four miles off Whitson Head on the Maine coast. I was on a friend's lobster boat when we found a rowboat adrift with a man who had no memory of how he got there. He wore a brass medallion with a lighthouse etched into it—one that had been decommissioned and locked for twenty years. What he said about the keeper's final night, and what he did with the lantern he carried, still makes me check the horizon before I turn out my own lights.