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The Fog Signal Engineers of the Pacific Northwest
The U.S. Coast Guard's Aids to Navigation Team at Astoria, Oregon, services fog signals at twenty-three lights along a stretch of coast that is foggy more days than not.
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Pemaquid Point in a storm, the last manual keeper in Newfoundland, Cape St. Mary's foghorn at 4 a.m.
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A Week at Cordouan: The King of Lighthouses
The tender out of Le Verdon-sur-Mer leaves at low water, an hour and twenty minutes before the lighthouse is accessible on foot across the sandbank.
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The Fresnel Conservator of Portland Head
In a small room above the gift shop at Portland Head Light, Esme Carriere unpacks a wooden crate from Birmingham, England, containing fourteen replacement prismatic elements.
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The Augers of St. John's Light: An Afternoon with the Volunteer Keepers
On the second Saturday of every month, Charlotte Auger and her brother David drive out to Long Point Light on the Lake Erie shore of Ontario to wind the clock, sweep the gallery, and take the readings.
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Decommissioning a 1907 Scottish Lighthouse
The Northern Lighthouse Board's decommissioning crew arrived at the small light at Eilean Glas on a Tuesday morning in late April, on the 09:40 ferry from Tarbert.
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Cape St. Mary's Foghorn at Four in the Morning
The horn sounds for four seconds, falls silent for fifty-six, and has done so without interruption since the second week of April. It is now May.
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The Last Manual Keeper at Cape Race, Newfoundland
Patrick Myrick keeps a fixed white light, a clockwork rotation, and a record book in a hand his father taught him at the kitchen table in Drook in 1971.
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A Night at Pemaquid Point During a Maine Northeaster
The wind came up the gut at 3:14 a.m. on April 22, and the keeper's house at Pemaquid Point held against it the way it has held against eighty-two prior April storms.