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On an island off the Maine coast, a light must be kept every night for the ships that cannot see the shore.
Ada Beausoleil was appointed keeper of Warren Light in 1929 and dismissed in 1938, when the Board of Lighthouse Commissioners cut the wage and took the post away from her. She stayed on regardless, in a one-room fog-signal cottage at the island's north end — unpaid, unnamed — tending the lamp through twenty-five winters.
On the night of February 22, 1963, a storm tore the gallery door and ran the clockwork down at 11:20 p.m. Ada, an eighty-four-year-old woman, climbed the eighty-four iron steps with the keeper and turned the weight by hand. The light burned until dawn. Three weeks la