Many of them are local, many of them from Boston.Īnd so many of them say, oh, I have lived in Boston all of my life, I have looked at Boston Light, and never came out. Visitors get to come out, climb the 76 spiral stairs, two ladders into the lantern room, and stand by an 11-foot crystal made up of 336 individual prisms. And this is what the keeper's wife would have worn during that period of time. She is the first female keeper of Boston Light. So, I came up with the idea of this costume from the late 1700s to help tell the story, that it's not the original tower of 1716. Sally Snowman has been the resident keeper of Americas last manned lighthouse for the past 13 years. However, being on the payroll for the Coast Guard as a civilian employee, I wasn't allowed to wear the uniform, and I was asked to come up with something that would help me stand out from the crowd. When I was hired in 2003, I was a Coast Guard auxiliary person that volunteered out here and wore a uniform. So, now I am the 70th keeper of Boston Light, with the first 69 having been all men. It was rebuilt in 1783, and that is the tower that exists today.Īnd, today, 300 years later, the lighthouse is doing exactly what it was intended to do in 1716, which was showing a safe way into Boston Harbor. And then it had an incident in 1776 in the Revolutionary War where the tower was blown up. In 1716, there were many shipwrecks here in the outer harbor of Boston, and they wanted to have a major aid to navigation to show the ships safe passage into the harbor.Īnd so, in 1716, Boston Light was erected.
It is located on Little Brewster Island at the entrance of Boston Harbor. And I'm the Coast Guard lighthouse keeper of Boston Light.īoston Light is the last manned Coast Guard life station in the entire country.
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