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Author Skomal, Lenore.

Title The keeper of Lime Rock : the remarkable true story of Ida Lewis, America's most celebrated lighthouse keeper / by Lenore Skomal.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : Running Press, [2002]
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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B LEWIS, IDA    Check Shelf
Description 149 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Note Map on lining papers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-149).
Summary The life of Ida Lewis, America's first official female lighthouse keeper and the first woman to win a Congressional Medal.
Contents Propelled to Notoriety -- In the Beginning -- The First Rescue -- The Summer of '69 -- Keeping the Wick -- The Rescues Continue: The Second, Third, and Fourth -- Losing Heart -- A Solitary Life (1881-1911) -- In Death, Beloved -- Epilogue: Ida Lewis Lighthouse.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.7 7.0 86122.
Subject Lewis, Ida, 1842-1911.
Women lighthouse keepers -- Rhode Island -- Newport -- Biography.
Lighthouse keepers -- Rhode Island -- Newport -- Biography.
Women heroes -- Rhode Island -- Newport -- Biography.
Newport (R.I.) -- Biography.
Lifesaving -- Rhode Island -- Newport -- History.
Ida Lewis Rock Light (R.I.) -- History.
ISBN 0762413093
9780762413096
076241538X
9780762415380
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