Digest>May/Jun 2019

Photo Caption:

With the daily chores over, this newspaper photo dated February 22, 1946, shows lighthouse keeper William A. Wilkinson enjoying his newspaper in the pleasant kitchen of the keeper’s house of the Fort Gratiot Light Station, as his wife Hildred prepares a batch of homemade doughnuts. (Lighthouse Digest archives.)
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Story:

William A. Wilkinson, Last Keeper of Fort Gratiot Lighthouse
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