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This is the absorbing story of Ida Lewis, born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1842, and the fearless rescues she made at Lime Rock Lighthouse. In 1853, her father, Captain Hosea Lewis, became the first keeper of this lighthouse. But after he was disabled by stroke, then-fifteen-year-old Ida and her mother took over Lime Rock Light from 1857 until 1872, when her father died. Her mother was appointed lighthouse keeper, a position she held until her death in 1879, though Ida did the work. In 1879, Ida was officially appointed to the job, which she remained in until her own passing, in 1911. Ida saved at least eighteen lives over nearly forty years on the tiny island in Newport. She became famous nationwide in the late 1860s after one of her daring rescues, and the town of Newport celebrated her on Independence Day 1869. In 1924 the Rhode Island legislature changed the name of Lime Rock to Ida Lewis Rock. In 1995, a new class of Coast Guard buoy tenders was named for her.

Lenore Skomal is the author of ten books, including Lady Liberty: The History of the Statue of Liberty and a previous edition of Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter (under the title The Keeper of Lime Rock). Her weekly humor column and videocast (www.goerie.com) has won numerous Society of Professional Journalist awards. She lives in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Acknowledgments	p. vi
Preface	p. x
Propelled to Notoriety	p. 1
In the Beginning	p. 18
The First Rescue	p. 29
The Summer of 1869	p. 35
Keeping the Wick	p. 58
The Rescues Continue: The Second, Third, and Fourth	p. 65
Losing Heart	p. 74
A Solitary Life (1881-1911)	p. 93
In Death, Beloved	p. 111
Epilogue: Ida Lewis Lighthouse	p. 122
Afterword	p. 133
Bibliography	p. 136
Index	p. 142
About the Author	p. 148
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