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Brave Women of the Lighthouses

Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories

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Katherine Walker - A Lightkeeper's Story

Katherine Walker was the head keeper of Robin's Reeflight in New York Harbor for 33 years. She saved at least 50 people from drowning during her tenure, and had as much housework to do as a Waldorf Astoria employee. Ms Walker retired in 1919; she spent her late years in a small cottage on Staten Island where she kept a garden.

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