Mount Desert Rock is a small patch of land 25 miles out to sea in the gulf of Maine. It’s no more than 20ft above sea level and there’s not much soil and no trees to speak of. Before the lighthouse was automated, a keeper would live in this house and tend the light. My great great grandfather was one of those keepers. It’s wild to imagine what life must’ve been like, especially through the winter, on this desolate speck of land. Now Mount Desert Rock is a marine research station for a local college.

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