light

noun, a lighthouse (“light, n.1.” OED)

“Back in those days, when Dad first went first went to the light in 1941, you had to hire your own assistant. The government didn’t do the job for you, eh. That’s where your father-in-law was his first hired man.”

“My great-great-grandfather and grandmother, they were lightkeepers out there. And they had a house down on Four Mile … They used to row out there and stay in the light, light the light. There was never a foghorn. But anyway, they got pneumonia one fall, and they died out there.”