In a genuine and remarkably captivating voice, Connie Scovill Small (1901?2005) writes about her twenty-eight years of lighthouse living and service along the Maine and New Hampshire coasts with her husband, Elson. While her autobiography is a compelling narrative about a life of "people risking their own lives to help men and ships: a life of order and duty," it also inspires and encourages us to "look up and never down" in our shared search for a meaningful existence in the inevitable isolation and uncertainty of living.