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This photo of Lilla Bernice Severance (1893-1975) was taken in 1958 when she was 65 years old. From 1915 to 1922, the State of Maine paid her $500 a year plus travel expenses to teach island lighthouse children. She taught ten months a year, taking off in the months of January and February when the weather was too dangerous and cold for travel. In 1922 at the age of 29, when she stopped being a traveling lighthouse school teacher, she married 44-year-old Coast Guardsman Guy M. Cole, and she continued her teaching career on the mainland where she delighted her pupils with stories of her “thousand-mile classroom.” (Lighthouse Digest archives)
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Maine’s Traveling School Teacher
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