Dumpling Rock Lighthouse

When I was a child my father and mother told me, time and time again, about how they survived the great New England hurricane of 1938. Today, exactly 53 years later, those stories have left me with a legacy of hope. Octave and Emma Ponsart were lighthouse keepers at Dumpling Rock Lighthouse, "a rock in the ocean" as they used to call it, off Padanaram in South Dartmouth. Their story, never before told completely in print, began on that gray Wednesday, Sept. 21, 1938.