ILLUSTRATED "TABLE TOP" DIARY

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Deer Isle Thoroughfare, Mark Isle Lighthouse—circa 1857, a six-acre Isle, about a mile offshore from Stonington Maine at the western entrance to the passage. It was an ideal location for a lighthouse to aid local navigation south of Stonington in East Penobscot Bay Maine. It is a tortuous narrow passage —a busy waterway by the mid- nineteenth century practically impossible to navigate when ice clogged the channel.

The importance of the Mark Isle Lighthouse is that it was built at the time when the granite quarries and fishing industry were booming along the Deer Isle and Maine Coast.

Melissa Colby Holden, was the First and Only Female Light Housekeeper in the history of Maine and was "Erased" and her position as Lighthouse keeper eliminated because she was a woman. We tell her story, her life, love, accomplishments, and history-changing dedication to the women's and children's movements.

The "Table Top Book" has over 350 pages from Melissa's diary including her photos and Illustrations depicting life in Maine at the turn of the 19th century.