3059. (photo) Coast Guard Petty Officer Dennis Dever Chisels his Name into a Rock at Boston Light c.1989. Clear, close, original 6 ½” x 10” press photo shows good detail as United States Coast Guard Petty Officer Dennis Dever, carrying on a lighthouse-keepers tradition, chisels his name and the year, 1989, into a rock at Boston Light, the first manned light lighthouse on American shores. The oldest known inscription at the site is dated 1768. The island lighthouse remains the last U.S. light station that still retains a Coast Guard Keeper. “Petty Officer First Class Dennis Dever, the Coast Guard officer in charge in the late 1980s, had a few odd experiences while at the station. While working in the station’s boathouse, he liked to have his radio tuned to a rock station. Often, with nobody else in the boathouse, the station would change itself to a classical station. Dever said he and other Coast Guard crew attributed events like this to “Old George”—Worthylake [a past keeper], that is. One day, Dever was in the kitchen of the keeper’s house looking out the window at the tower, and he clearly saw a man in the lantern room. This was alarming, as the only other person on the island was his assistant in the next room. From a distance, it appeared that the figure at the top of the tower was wearing an old fashioned keeper’s uniform. Dever rushed to the tower and went up the stairs to the landing, but he found the lantern room empty.” (courtesy newenglandlighthouses.net) Photo is b/w and includes date October 12, 1989 and description on back. Clear, close view, great detail. (VG+). $46.