Tired of watching mariners die, lighthouse keeper started a rescue service

Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 2 p.m.

After finding a battered lifeboat washed up on shore from a fatal shipwreck, Joel Munson made it his life's mission to use it to start a life-saving service. Today, his creation soldiers on, as part of the U.S. Coast Guard. (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop County; 1865) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/o1106c-joel-munson-founded-lifesaving-service.html)