Digest>Nov/Dec 2016
Photo Caption:
George Rockwell Putnam’s tombstone with the newly placed United States Light House Service marker with two books that he had written, Lighthouses and Lightships of the United States, published in 1917 and 1933 and Sentinels of the Coast, published in 1937, along with a copy of the August, 1936 edition of National Geographic in which he wrote an extensive article titled, “New Safeguards for Ships in Fog and Storm.” (photo by Ron Janard) Back to the edition of: Nov/Dec 2016
Story:
First Commissioner of Lighthouses Honored
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