From Toms desk: Thought of the Week 1/30/15

"If there was a fog or thick snow, navigators would run for the bell. Even if the night was clear when we went to bed, we often would wake with a start and could feel the fog coming in. Elwon would go to the bell tower and start the bell." Connie Scovill Small in "The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife"
 

The Goat Island bell tower, seen through the sea smoke at sunrise: Photo by Robert Dennis