Digest>December 2010

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The author, William Waterway Marks, and the late United States Senator Ted Kennedy at the 1986 benefit to raise money to save three of Martha’s Vineyard’s lighthouses. In a newspaper article about the event, reporter Elaine Lembro quoted Senator Kennedy, who added a little humor to the event, when he said, “I can remember when president William Marks called me some time ago and said, ‘Will you be part of this operation to gain the lighthouse?’ I thought he said White House, and I joined right away.” (Photo courtesy William Waterway Marks.)
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Saving Lighthouses on Martha’s Vineyard
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