Presents the title work in which Abbie, the daughter of a lighthouse keeper, is forced to keep the lights burning by herself in the winter of 1856 when her father goes to town and his return is delayed by a storm, and includes a visit to a lighthouse on the Maine coast, a trip on a schooner, a look at how ship models are put in bottles, and reviews of related books.
In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself.
As a storm rages, Abbie has to tend the lighthouse by herself for the first time. She is scared, but lives depend on her. Based on the true story of Abbie Burgess' adventure in 1856.
In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself.
In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself.
Relates the real-life saga of Abbie Burgess, who single-handedly kept the lighthouse lamps lit during a four-week winter storm that lashed the coast of Maine in 1856.
