View From the Top

View From the TopSome two miles from the mainland, with nothing between it and savage squalls, the old sentinel has been battered frequently. Civil War-era keepers, according to one account, were afraid for their lives during bad weather because the tower would sway nauseatingly.

-Photograph by Thomas Mark Szelog, From our September 1998 Issue

View From the Top

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