Digest>Mar/Apr 2017

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Shown here in a photo that was labeled “The Whole Family in 1915” is the family of Albion Faulkingham that was taken when he was the lighthouse keeper at Libby Island Lighthouse, fifteen years before he would become the keeper at Prospect Harbor Point Lighthouse where he would serve until his early retirement in 1934 at age the age of 65. Shown left, holding the dog, is daughter Beatrice, who married lighthouse keeper William Woodward who served at Monhegan Island Lighthouse, Isle of Shoals Lighthouse, Doubling Point Range Lighthouses, Mana Island Fog Signal Station, and Cape Elizabeth Lighthouse. Then shown is wife Lucy with her hand on the shoulder of her husband, Albion Faulkingham, daughter Marcia, and daughter Florence, who later in life married Morton Dixon, and the couple lived for a brief time at Prospect Harbor Point Lighthouse as the caretakers. The two small children in the photograph were not identified. (Photo courtesy Linda Vanidestine.)
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Changes of the Watch at Prospect Harbor Point Lighthouse
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