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I N - D E P T H 78 NOVEMBER 2020 "Once you get into the history of these lighthouses, you cannot believe how important they were," he says. "It was your Apple iPhone of a bygone era. It connected you. If you did not have a lighthouse that served your town, you were going to starve to death. A ship with supplies would not risk running aground on the rocks." "Every lighthouse is a different work of art," he notes. For instance, West Quoddy Head Lighthouse in northern Maine, the easternmost structure in the United States, had downspouts in the form of gargoyles that had been removed years earlier. Nally hired an artist to carve wooden gargoyles and then had them cast as rubber molds, into which iron was poured to recreate the forms in all their intricacy. Joe Tully, the Coast Guard's inspector for the lighthouse Baker's Island Light was restored by Martin Nally. PHOTOGRAPH BY SHUTTERSTOCK