Kindly lights

The lighthouse on a lonely point of land has become a romantic symbol of a bygone era when ships plied the seas without the aid of modern technology. In this concise history of the development of the lighthouse system in New England, Sarah Gleason brings to life this fascinating navigational era. Kindly Lights chronicles the history of the lights from the early days of the colonies, when lighthouses were built shoddily and haphazardly, usually soon after an all-too-predictable shipwreck, to the mid-nineteenth century when a national lighthouse system was established. In one compelling…