Barry Porter’s memoir of his career as a lighthouse keeper has been turned into a comic strip by the Washington Post.

This lighthouse is located on its own private island on the St. Mary's River between Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Canada. The 2,000-square-foot lighthouse was built in 1892 and decommissioned in ...

The old pepperpot-style lighthouse was pulled down by the Coast Guard and burned in 1990, replaced with a round, fiberglass light tower that runs 24 hours a day.