From guiding lights to beacons for business
Subtitle: the many lives of Maine's lighthouses
By: edited by Richard Cheek ; introduction by Olympia J. Snowe
Publisher: Historic New England; Distributed by Tilbury House Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston; Gardiner, Me
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780884483380
Subjects: Lighthouses; History
Notes: "With essays by W. H. Bunting, Richard Cheek, Thomas Andrew Denenberg, Timothy Harrison,  Kirk F. Mohney, David Richards, and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction by Senator Olympia J. Snowe; title: Throw out the lifeline! Wrecks and the hazards of coastal navigation / W.H. Bunting; title: Shaping the towers: the architecture of the lighthouses / Kirk F. Mohney; title: All alone and ever ready: the lives and legends of the keepers / Timothy Harrison; title: Children, lighthouses, and lifeboats: stories of danger and rescue at sea / Richard Cheek; title: Nation, home, and heaven: the moral significance of lighthouses / Richard Cheek; title: "Steadfast, serene, immovable": the Maine lighthouse in American art / Thomas Andrew Denenberg; title: Frozen in time: the photography of Maine's lighthouses / Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr; title: Drawn to the lights: how lighthouses became Maine's greatest tourist attraction / David Richards; title: Beacons for business: the commercial use of the lighthouse image / Richard Cheek; title: Saving the sentinels: the preservation of Maine's light stations / Kirk F. Mohney.