Body in the Lighthouse by Katherine Hall Page

Author:Katherine Hall Page [Page, Katherine Hall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-05-24T03:24:02+00:00

thing: You wanted your kids to be independent and strong-minded, but absolutely not with you.

The crowd was thinning as parents took weary children home. The teenagers had not arrived yet, considering it much too early to be cool. She left the stand and wandered toward the end of the pier. Granville was not Bar Harbor. It was still very much a working fishing village. On this summer Sunday night, the harbor was packed with fishing boats of all sizes and shapes, waiting for dawn and another day’s hard labor. Sanpere Island had never been a resort. Off to the right, past the Sanpere Thoroughfare, she could see the skeletal derricks on Crandall Island, whose granite quarries had supplied the stone for New York skyscapers, museums, memorials, and jobs for several generations of island men. Shut down in the 1960s, it caused a major exodus, and attempts to start the business again in other, smaller quarries on the island had failed, too.

“My father worked there all his life. He’d never have believed that all that would be left was some rusty pieces of metal and big holes in the ground.” It was Ken Layton, the island’s historian. He sometimes wrote a column in the paper and had written a short history of Sanpere. He planned a longer one when he got too old to fish, which he hoped would be never.

She wondered what he thought about Sanpere’s recent history. Most specifically Friday. Besides total recall of the past, Ken didn’t miss much of what was going on in the present.

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