Relates the true story of Abbie Burgess, a young girl who kept the lighthouse at Matinicus Rock, Maine, lit when her father, the lighthouse keeper, was away during a storm that lasted several weeks in 1856.
Relates the true story of Abbie Burgess, a young girl who kept the lighthouse at Matinicus Rock, Maine, lit when her father, the lighthouse keeper, was away during a storm that lasted several weeks in 1856.
In Philadelphia, in 1777, fourteen-year-old Quaker John Darragh aids the American army by carrying coded messages, hidden by his mother in the buttons on his coat, to his older brother Charles in George Washington's camp.
