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Every year at the annual Great Lakes Lighthouse Festival, longtime Lighthouse Digest subscriber, Eleanor Prell of Hawks, Michigan, who grew up near the Cuttyhunk Lighthouse in Massachusetts, stops by the Lighthouse Digest booth to give our editor, Tim Harrison, a gift. Last year she gave him a plaque that was engraved by her daughter with Eve Tappen’s poem.

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The Elizabeth Islands We drove the Indians out of the land,

But a dire revenge those Red men planned;

They fastened a name to every nook

And every boy with a spelling book

Will have to study ‘til his hair turns gray,

Before he can spell them in the proper way.

The islands in Buzzards Bay are these:

Cuttyhunk, Penikese, Nashawena and Pasquenese,

Great Naushon, Nomesett, Unacatena and Wepeckets.

Eve March Tappen

Teacher 1883

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