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Northshore October 2025
What’s not to like—some would say love—about lighthouses? As human-made structures, their picturesque beauty is unmatched, they still serve a noble purpose, and they’re steeped in a daring, fascinating past. George Bernard Shaw was spot-on when he wrote: “I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as lighthouses. They were built only to serve.” In 2014, New England filmmaker Rob Apse was working on a short documentary, The Stones of the Quarries, about the granite quarrying industry in Cape Ann. He wondered “where all that stone went,” he told me in a telephone interview. Intrigued by the mean
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