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Brave Women of the Lighthouses

Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories

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Ida Lewis Rocklight

Ida Lewis saved 18 lives during her 54 years on the island. News of her great deeds spread in publications as popular as Harper's Weekly and the New York Tribune. She became a much-beloved public figure, eventually meeting admirals, presidents, and famous people such as feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Ida made her last recorded rescue for the age of 63, when a visiting friend accidentally overturned her own rowboat.

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