Neither the theft of four casks of whale oil nor the bombardment by a patriot raiding party during the Revolutionary War were able to permanently darken the Sandy Hook Lighthouse, a stout, eight-sided structure that continues to warn vessels off the shoals of Raritan Bay.
A profile of Sally Snowman, the keeper of Boston Light, on Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts, and how she is preserving maritime tradition and history. Dorothy Wickenden reports.