LAST LIGHT-KEEPERS
WHAT’S NOT TO LIKE—SOME WOULD SAY LOVE—ABOUT LIGHTHOUSES?
As human-made structures, their picturesque beauty is unmatched, they still serve a noble purpose, and they’re steeped in a daring, fascinating past. George Bernard Shaw was spot-on when he wrote: “I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as lighthouses. They were built only to serve.”
In 2014, New England filmmaker Rob Apse was working on a short documentary, , about the granite quarrying industry in Cape Ann. He wondered “where all that stone went,” he told me in a telephone interview. Intrigued by the meaning behind the stone as symbols of strength and security, he let the idea simmer until it bubbled up into a new project,
