Wisconsin Magazine of History

Letter from the Editor

his summer, while sailing in the Apostle Islands, I visited the lighthouse on Sand Island where light keeper and shutterbug Emmanuel Luick spent some twenty-odd years documenting island life—a story we covered in the magazine last winter. Aside from a National Park Service worker on the other

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