Why Did So Many Lighthouse Keepers "Go Mad"?

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We commonly imagine lighthouses three ways: cold, scary, and definitely haunted. But where did that image come from, and why did so many lighthouse keepers "go mad" in the first place? Come learn with me!
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Lightships and lighthouses, by Frederick A. Talbot.
A Short Bright Flash by Theresa Levitt
California Lighthouse Life in the 1920s and 1930s by Wayne C. Wheeler
Lighthouse Beginnings and Man’s Need For Them by Trudy Dootson, Palos Verdes Interpretive Center Docent Research Paper #43
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Keepers of the Lights by Hans Christian Adamson
Sentinels of the North Pacific by James A. Gibbs, Jr.
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Human toxicology of Mercury by Thomas W. Clarkson
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Black Lighthouse Keepers by Thomas Tag uslhs.org/blac...
Historians shed light on first African American lighthouse keeper for Cape Henry: prominent abolitionist Willis Augustus Hodges www.wavy.com/n...
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Images and Video:
The Thirteenth Year, 1999
The Lighthouse, 2019
The Mermaid, 1904
Point Fermin Lighthouse Society
Diver Kevin
United States Lighthouse Society
Lighthouse Friends
The Banning Museum
Jersey Heritage Trust
Los Angeles Times