West Quoddy Head Light

West Quoddy Head Light was our destination today. Two of my relations worked as keepers , Ebenezer Wormell, my grandmother Nora's great grandfather and Loring Leavitt, her maternal grandfather. Ebenezer worked at the light before the classic red and white striped structure was erected in 1858. We did our usual rock collecting on the beach near the light and drove along the South Lubec Road where my grandmother walked as a child and young woman.

We went into town to one of our favorite Lubec restaurants . T and I had the Lobster Mac & Cheese that we have been thinking about since we were last there in 2011.

The rain clouds were moving off as the clam diggers brought their buckets in from the flats and headed home .


Some of my mother's people, the Guptill's & Wormell's came from 'across' the channel. The 20 mile long island you see, often called the "Blue Biscuit, is Grand Manan, a Canadian Island. T and I have been there twice, once it was so foggy we couldn't see anything. We were outside of the car on the side of the road trying to see something when a hidden light house foghorn almost made us fall over an unseen cliff! We jumped so far when it sounded, we were shocked. It's a wonderful place to visit with 400 ft cliffs on the side you can see in this photo. They harvest dulse, fish and live a quiet life in sync with the sea. It's a fantastic place to visit, Willa Cather did some of her writing there.