This original Graves Light checkerboard, made by Keeper Llewelyn Rogers in the 1930s, was gifted to Graves Light by the Rogers family in 2018. 
The sea reached up and swept away the old shed in March. 
Bruce at the UPS Store, delivering the checkerboard to Graves Light. 
The inscription on the reverse of the Rogers checkerboard. 
Keeper Llewellyn Rogers, 1941 
Fully framed timber reconstruction of the 1905 oil house. 
Closeup of the timber frame roof to replace the 1905 original on the oil house. 
10 x 10-foot oil house roof frame, made of old pine, at Raivo’s workshop in Maine. 
Kenny at the firehouse with the exact replica cabinet he built in Connecticut. 
Windy conditions made panel installation a challenge. 
Coast Guard solar panels are at the top of the lighthouse, so the new shed is our only alternative. 
Lots of teamwork to make us 100% solar powered. 
Installation nears completion. Batteries will ensure 24/7 power. 
Building a steel landing to replace the original. 
Beer-fueled maritime engineering. 
Adding steel reinforcements to the concrete and stone. 
Old roof is gone. 
Lynn finishes the careful work to set the true-to-the-original hexagonal tiles on the first deck. 
Barry pours the new slab to replace the old. 
Storing antique, original US Light House Service oil cans and lamp parts. 
In its new and final home, the first floor of Graves Light. 
An original US Lighthouse Service sign on one of the new white oak doors at Graves. 
These are the original 1905 US Lighthouse Service plans for the front doors of Graves Light. 
Installed: The 2018 doors as the originals would have looked in 1905. 
Master Ship’s Carpenter Don Conry at his workshop with one of the doors he built for Graves from the 1905 plans. 
Master Ship’s Carpenter Don Conry with two of the perfect replica doors he built for Graves Light. 
