Bois Blanc Lighthouse

It was a wild night when the lighthouse fell...Father (Eber Ward) had Igone over to Mackinaw two days before and a storm had arisen that prevented his getting back." Thus began Emily Ward's first-person account of her experiences helping her father, when he was Keeper on Bois Blanc Island in upper Lake Huron. She continued, "The Lighthouse had originally been placed too near the water and every heavy storm was full of peril for the old lighthouse.