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The Last Lighthouse Keeper

Radio Diaries and All Things Considered continue a multi-part radio tribute to jobs that are slowly disappearing, celebrating people who keep alive an older way of life. This week, a profile of the last of a lonely breed -- Frank Schubert, the only civilian lighthouse keeper in America.

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