Last Lighthouse Keeper with Stuart McDowell | Gentrain (MPC LF103)

Course Description:

"The Last Lighthouse Keeper" tells the extraordinary life of Bill Owens, for 32 years a keeper with the United States Lighthouse Service on California's coast. Owens experienced the Great Depression, World War II, dirigible disasters, storms, and plane crashes. At Point Conception, he encountered shipwrecks and rum runners. At Point Sur, isolation and hardship. At Point Arena, Japanese submarines. And, finally, at Point Cabrillo, a stormy conclusion to a career threatened by the coming of automated lighthouses. Author Stuart McDowell crafts a riveting portrait of a man, a family and an era of lighthouse men never to be seen again.