Digest>Jan/Feb 2023

Photo Caption:

William C. Williams, shown here toward the end of his lighthouse career, spent 28 years of his life at Maine’s desolate Boon Island Lighthouse, where he probably climbed the 168 stairs to the top approximately 20,000 times. William C. Williams was born in 1845 and died in 1939. (Lighthouse Digest archives)
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Story:

Long Time Keeper of Boon Island Honored
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