Sankaty Head Lighthouse, Siasconset, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
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This photograph of Sankaty Head lighthouse was made on a fine May morning in 1991.
In service for over 160 years, the Sankaty Head Light sits on a high bluff at Nantucket Island's southeastern edge. The tiny village of Siasconset (locally called 'Sconset) is close by, as is a public beach.
To the east and south lies the wild, 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 back further from the ever-eroding edge of the bluff. The buildings at the right edge of the photograph no longer exist.
Photo location: Sankaty Head, Siasconset, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.
