From Guiding Lights to Beacons for Business: The Many Lives of Maine’s Lighthouses

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An iconic feature of the Maine coast (and in a couple of places inland), lighthouses have served as essential navigational aids but additionally as tourist attractions, art subjects, and advertising symbols. This lavishly illustrated third volume in Historic New England’s visual history series explores the lives and legends of lighthouse keepers, shares tales of maritime disasters, examines the architecture of lighthouses, and discusses efforts to preserve lighthouses themselves. It also explains how Maine’s lighthouses have inspired myriad varieties of representation, from paintings, photographs, and children’s stories to tabletop models and all kinds of practical bric-a-brac. The lights were key to the development of the tourist trade in Maine (beyond facilitating protected landings), and they’re a ubiquitous symbol on corporate logos, advertisements, souvenirs, and collectibles–from the past to the current. The ten chapters are from a number of contributors, and each and every chapter is richly illustrated with photographs and ephemera culled from private and public collections. Dynamically designed with fold-out covers, this book is indeed a treasure-trove of lighthouse information and images.

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