Junius Booth Sr. and the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

[Susan Higginbotham]

I am reading Stephen Archer's biography of Junius Booth, Sr. (very good, by the way). In it, he quotes an 1822 diary entry by Booth, written not long after Booth came to the U.S., in which Booth writes that he had met a collector of customs who offered him the keeping of Cape Hatteras Light House in North Carolina. Booth mulled over the possibility but had doubts whether Mary Anne would take to this isolated life.

The thought of Booth and his family tending the lighthouse amuses me to no end.