Lighthouse Love Affair
An excerpt from a new book by Tom and Lee Ann Szelog recalls the many years they spent living at Marshall Point Light in Port Clyde.
By Tom and Lee Ann Szelog
Marshall Point Light, in the village of Port Clyde, is many things to many people. For mariners, it is a beacon loudly and brilliantly announcing the tip of the St. George peninsula. To tourists, it is a postcard-perfect setting for a summer picnic.For Tom and Lee Ann Szelog, it was home.
For more than thirteen years, the Szelogs lived on the rocky outcropping, their daily lives dictated by the ever-changing natural and human dramas unfolding at their doorstep. The deafening foghorn that sounds at all hours during fog-filled summer days became sweet maritime music to the couple, the lightning drawn to the tower's metal roof a tangible connection to the heavens.
