27234. Edgett, Ruth. A WATCH IN THE NIGHT: THE STORY OF POMQUET ISLAND ’S LAST LIGHTKEEPING FAMILY. Nimbus. 2007.
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27234. Edgett, Ruth. A WATCH IN THE NIGHT: THE STORY OF POMQUET ISLAND ’S LAST LIGHTKEEPING FAMILY. Nimbus. 2007.
27234. Edgett, Ruth. A WATCH IN THE NIGHT: THE STORY OF POMQUET ISLAND ’S LAST LIGHTKEEPING FAMILY. Nimbus. 2007. Soft wraps. 196p. A Watch in the Night chronicles the struggles of one Nova Scotia family to survive on a tiny windswept island without running water, electricity, or reliable communication with the mainland. George and Ruth Millar are in their twenties in April, 1924, when they set out with two small children on their first rowboat voyage to Pomquet Island, half a mile off Bayfield on the southern shore of St. George’s Bay, Nova Scotia. They will spend the next thirty-six years raising children and keeping the light on this bleak teardrop of land. There they will raise generations of livestock, brought up their 6 children, and lived through violent storms and other weather disasters. A Watch in the Night is not a dry account of light-keeping life, but rather a tale in which faith, ingenuity, and tenderness triumph over adversity. A Watch in the Night takes the reader on a memorable voyage through a vital period of Atlantic Canadian history with one extraordinary light-keeping family. (M). $19.95.