Ida Lewis, the Heroine of LIME ROCK LIGHTHOUSE
ON THE AFTERNOON of March 29, 1869, Zoradia Lewis was doing what she did many times each day, gazing out a window of the lighthouse on Lime Rock Island in Newport, Rhode Island. Choppy waves leapt to meet sheets of rain. The sun struggled to light the sky over Narragansett Bay. And yet, she could swear she saw an overturned boat with two men clinging to its slippery sides. Zoradia called her daughter, Ida.
Ida ran outside without pausing to grab a coat or boots. She and her younger brother Hosea pushed their lifesaving skiff into the surf. Again and again, the waves forced the little boat back to shore. Ida would not give up, and finally pulled the oars hard enough to launch. Despite the rough seas, they made steady
