A young man with a broken heart takes work at a Cape Cod lighthouse where the keeper is also hiding from a woman, and the two of them agree that females are the ruin of everything — after which a summer cottage is let next door. Lincoln made a whole career out of one place; his retired captains and stubborn widows sound like transcription because they nearly are. Fifty-eight plates of lighthouse and fogbound sea by Homer, Friedrich and others turn the station's comedy into a painted record of the coast.
