Digest>May/Jun 2019
Photo Caption:
Genevieve K. “Jenny” Purington Cirone (March 24, 1912 - February 3, 2004) is shown here in later years tending her lobster traps. For most of her life Jenny raised sheep on Nash Island and tended lobster traps off the island lighthouse where her father John Purington had been the lighthouse keeper. (Sometimes her nickname name has been spelled Jennie.) (Eva Denny collection, Lighthouse Digest archives.) Back to the edition of: May/Jun 2019
Story:
The Day They Burned Jenny’s Childhood Home
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