BANSHEE POINT LIGHTHOUSE

(Above): Banshee Point Lighthouse on the Larkin estate.

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Constructed from gray brick in 1880, the Banshee Point Lighthouse on the Larkin estate stands 125-feet high. Inside is a metal spiral staircase, leading 200 steps to the top. Every five feet on the staircase are small, round windows made of thick glass and built to resemble ship portholes. The tower room holds two desks, bookcases with volumes on maritime law, lighthouse regulations, oceanographic maps, and a wild life book on birds and fish common to the area.

(Above): The stairway inside the Banshee Point Lighthouse.

After the lighthouse was automated, computers controlled the foghorn and lights with sensors. There is also a back-up generator in case of power outage, and two telephone lines. One is used to contact the state of Maine, and the other is a regular outside landline. On one of the desks is a small unit that detects sonar movements in the water within twenty miles, and prints out a report every six hours. Several old telescopes also line one wall of the room.

(Above): Entry door to the Banshee Point Lighthouse.

Colm Sullivan was the first lighthouse keeper at Banshee Point, where he worked from 1880 to 1919 (The Advent). His son, Michael "Mick" Sullivan, took over the keeper duties until the lighthouse was automated in 1927 (Quixotic Crossings).

**SPOILER ALERT**

The Banshee Point Lighthouse has a history of two suicides. The first was Molly Larkin in 1886 (The Advent), and the second was Luke Castaneda in 2008 (Megan's Legacy).

Please Note: The image displayed above (1) is actually of the St. Simon Lighthouse in Glynn County, Georgia. The photo was taken by Bubba-73 (2007) and remains his sole copyright. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

The stairwell image (2) is actually from Barrenjoey Lighthouse near Sydney, Australia; the entry door image (3) is actually from Cape du Couedic Lighthouse on Kangaroo Island in Australia. Both images remain the copyright of Annette Flotwell.

Images referenced to the Collective Obsessions Saga provided inspiration to the author's imagination but remain fictional in context.