<div>The lighthouses of New England project more than lifesaving beams across treacherous expanses of water. They also project an aura of steadfastness, dependability, and safety--and deservedly so. This guide features descriptions and beautiful photographs of more than sixty lighthouses (including four in Canada) from Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy to the Long Island Sound.<br><br>Highlights<br>>In the pounding surf, numbing cold, and full gale of a December storm in 1904, two keepers at Maine's <b>Mount Desert Rock Light</b> rescued the crew of an ocean tug that had run aground.<br>>In the winter of 1850, the keeper of Maine's <b>Owl's Head Light</b> rescued and revived a couple who had been frozen under a blanket of ice aboard a shipwrecked schooner.<br>>During the Hurricane of 1938, the keeper of the <b>Marblehead Light</b> in Massachusetts kept the lamp burning by running cables from his car battery to the tower.<br>>In February 1918 keeper Charles Jennings of the <b>Boston Light</b> pushed his dory over ice and through freezing surf to pluck 24 half-frozen crewmen from the Navy ship <i>Alacrity.</i><br></div>