What's it like to be a lighthouse keeper? I spent an afternoon with Nick Korstad, the keeper at Big Bay Point Lighthouse on Michigan's Lake Superior, to find out — and learned that being a keeper requires even more work and dedication than I'd imagined.
🎥 My first video from Big Bay Point, "The Invention That Saved a Million Ships": https://youtu.be/L5_JEq4BNzM
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Here are the key (non-Nick) sources I used while researching the story of lighthouse keepers:
The 1927 manual: https://uslhs.org/sites/default/files/attached-files/1927%20Instructions%20to%20Employees%20of%20the%20Lighthouse%20Service.pdf
https://www.cmich.edu/library/clarke/ResearchResources/Michigan_Material_Statewide/Michigan_Lighthouses/Pages/Life-in-a-Lighthouse.aspx
https://www.nps.gov/articles/lighthouse-keepers.htm