From The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/nyregion/06rooms.html
A lighthouse without a crabby old man inside is basically a barn without a heifer, a Continental restaurant without an oily maître d’.
The whole point of a lighthouse is to offer isolation to those who need it most — to give the bitter old coots of the world a place to find some peace.
The last manned tower in the city was emptied of its keeper when the cantankerous Frank Schubert, formerly of the Coney Island lighthouse, flicked his final switch, at age 86, in December 2003.
But would they ever want to live there?
“Maybe when I’m old and grumpy,” Petty Officer Boss said.
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