1276. Cheek, Richard (ed). From Guiding Lights to Beacons for Business: The Many Lives of Maine’s Lighthouses. Historic New England. 2012.
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1276. Cheek, Richard (ed). From Guiding Lights to Beacons for Business: The Many Lives of Maine’s Lighthouses. Historic New England. 2012.
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1276. Cheek, Richard (ed). From Guiding Lights to Beacons for Business: The Many Lives of Maine’s Lighthouses. Historic New England. 2012. 240p. Soft wraps. Published by Historic New England, this new book contains an amazing amount of material with a layout and design like no other book published about Maine’s Lighthouses. The influence of Maine’s lighthouses derives not just from the structures themselves but from the myriad forms of writing, representation and reproduction that they have inspired. This book is the third volume in the visual history series that Historic New England is publishing, and contains ten detailed chapters by seven authors, with an introduction by Senator Snowe. With 240 pages and hundreds of color and b/w images, the book is loaded with amazing facts and wonderful visual imagery. Some chapters include: Throw Out the Life-Line, Shaping the Towers, All Alone and Ever Ready, Children Lighthouses and Lifeboats, Saving the Sentinels. The perfect, entertaining, Maine lighthouse book and a must-have for anyone with interest in lighthouses and how they have influenced society, advertising and more over the last century. Shown above is an image from the book, Keepers Robert T. Sterling and Frank Hilt, keepers at Portland Head Light. This is a limited printing and sure to sell out fast. (M). $34.95.