Sankaty Head Lighthouse (black and white), Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
This photograph of Sankaty Head lighthouse was made on a fine May morning in 1991.
In service for over 150 years, the Sankaty Head Light sits on a high bluff at Nantucket Island's southeastern edge. The tiny village of Siasconset (locally pronounced 'Sconset) is close by, as is a public beach.
To the east and south lie the wide, cold North Atlantic ocean. To the west and north lie the moors of southeast Nantucket, consisting of dense oakbrush thickets and a few cranberry farms.
An ever-shifting glacial moraine of sand and rock, Nantucket Island seems lost in time in some ways, but is always shifting with the pressures of the mighty sea. Sankaty Head Light has since been moved inland a bit. The scene captured in this photo no longer exists now that it's been moved, and the buildings at right no longer exist.
Photo location: Siasconset (Sconset), Sankaty Head, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.
