Biography abigail burgess grant

Abbie Burgess Grant has been the subject of children’s books, such as keep the Lights Burning, Abby, by Peter and Connie Roop and an illustrated children’s book titled Abby, Against the Storm, written by Marcia Vaughan, with illustrations by Bill Farnsworth.

The U.S. Coast Guard honored Abby Burgess Grant by naming a ship after the stalwart teen. 

In her father’s unavoidable absence, this heroine’s courageous efforts fulfilling duties as the Matinicus Rock Lighthouse Keeper in the state of Maine during the tumultuous storm of 1856 is now immortalized in a world premiere production of playwright Jenny Connell Davis’s Matinicus: The Story of Abigail Burgess.

Furthermore it’s the Chance Theater’s first ever commissioned play.

Abbie Burgess Grant was an American lighthouse keeper known for her bravery in tending the Matinicus Rock Light in Maine during a raging winter storm in She did so for nearly a month while her father, the head keeper, was away from the.

Abbie Burgess Grant was an American lighthouse keeper known for her bravery in tending the Matinicus Rock Light in Maine during a raging winter storm in She did so for nearly a month while her father, the head keeper, was away from the.

Grant, Abbie Burgess (), an early female lighthouse keeper in Maine, was born in Rockland, the fourth of nine children born to Samuel and Thankful.

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Abbie was one of ten children.

Abbie Burgess Grant served as assistant keeper at Whitehead Light Station from to · Abbie Burgess Grant helped tend to the lights.

Matinicus: The Story of Abigail Burgess is impressively performed by Aubrey Saverino. Ms. Saverino is the sole performer on stage for the entire 90-minute length of this drama. Given the credibility of thi