This program explores the US Lighthouse Service and looks at five remarkable women keepers. Presented by Mary Rasa.
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Families lived and worked at lighthouses. The keeper’s family learned to tend the light and a few hundred wives and daughters became the official keepers or assistant keepers. This was one of the first government career fields open to females. The US Coast Guard assumed control of lighthouses in 1939.
Mary Rasa is a speaker/historian who worked as a museum curator and park ranger for the National Park Service for 16 years. She holds a BA in Historic Preservation and a master’s in library science. She has conducted over one thousand programs for audiences from school children to academic and professional conferences as well as libraries, senior citizen groups and historic societies.
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