A Watch In The Night: The Story Of The Pomquet Island's Last Lightkeeping Family

The Story

A Watch in the Night chronicles the struggles of one Nova Scotia family to survive on a tiny windswept island without running water, electricity, or reliable communication with the mainland. For thirty-six years, George and Ruth Millar tended the Pomquet Island light, raised generations of livestock, brought up their six children, and lived through violent storms and other weather disasters.A Watch in the Night is not a dry account of lightkeeping life, but rather a tale in which faith, ingenuity, and tenderness triumph over adversity.

A paperback edition from 2007 of A Watch In The Night: The Story Of The Pomquet Island's Last Lightkeeping Family by Ruth Edgett. It runs to 224 pages, in fine condition. Stock is limited to the copies on our shelves in Kuwait. Shelved under Biography & Memoir. Wrapped with care for collectors and shipped from Kuwait.