Bagpiper at Hunting Island Lighthouse

This photograph was taken at the Hunting Island Lighthouse 150th Anniversary Celebrations. As the various dignitaries were gathering under the tent, the bagpiper was playing a reel.

I can’t help but imagine this bagpiper as the lighthouse keeper one hundred years ago, on this isolated island. No one to hear but the occasional sea gull. Maybe the plaintive notes would travel over the waters and let sailors know land was near.