The Library - Hooper Strait Lighthouse

by Brian Wallace

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The Library - Hooper Strait Lighthouse

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Brian Wallace

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Photograph - Photography

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A display presented inside the Hooper Strait Lighthouse at CBMM (Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum) in St. Michaels, Maryland. This exhibit displays the limited reading material brought to the lighthouse keepers of the era.

I added textures to the image and removed an exhibit plaque describing the "library material". It read...

"What we did look forward to were the tenders to come and they would bring us coal and supposedly a library, but I don't know what they thought the people on the lighthouse were. They brought them Shakespeare! They brought them 'The Iliad'. They brought them all those classical books, and so old! Well they weren't worth having, believe me, but you'd always think, well, the next library will be better, but it wasn't. It was a little worse. And we did look forward to the tenders because it was company, a little bit, but they stayed and did their business and then went."

-- Beatrice Gould, wife of keeper at Piney Point, and Drum Point Lighthouses

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November 20th, 2017

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