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In this podcast, we will be discussing the book \u201cThe Lighthouse Keeper\u2019s Daughter: The Remarkable True Story of American Heroine Ida Lewis,\u201d by Lenore Skomal. Lenore tells the story of Ida Lewis, whose father was responsible for keeping the light burning in the Lime Rock Lighthouse outside of Newport, Rhode Island in the mid-1800s. When Ida was young, her father fell ill, and tending the light fell to her mother and later, to Ida. Ida was considered the bravest woman of her day, not because of her light keeping skills but because of her daring rescues at sea. Ida would see men in danger in the waters surrounding the lighthouse and immediately race for her row boat, casting off and rowing as hard as she could to reach the drowning men. Using her 5\u20194\u201d, 103-pound frame, she would pull the men into her boat and then row them back to the safety of the shore. Ida\u2019s rescues brought her unwanted fame and attention. While she met some of the biggest political and military names of her day\u2014men who today have their own pages in history books\u2014and was visited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony\u2014the leaders of the suffrage movement\u2014Ida never appeared to enjoy the spotlight. The story of this Modern Athena would have been lost to history, or at least relegated to a footnote, if Lenore Skomal had not written this book.

INDEX
0:00 Intro and Background of the Book
1:55 Lighthouses & The Lime Rock Lighthouse
5:25 Ida and Hosea
8:57 Ida\u2019s First Rescue
13:48 The Famous Rescue
19:19 The Famous Rescue: Publicity and Grace Darling
22:59 July 4, 1869
29:03 Ida Becomes a Newport Attraction
38:18 Ida\u2019s Life Moves On
41:38 Ida\u2019s Official Appointment and Last Rescue
45:15 The End of an Era
48:19 Outro and Next Episode

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