The remains of Rhode Island’s Whale Rock Lighthouse stands as a type of tombstone to assistant lighthouse keeper Walter Eberle who was killed in the 1938 hurricane that destroyed the lighthouse that stood in the west passage of Narragansett Bay. (Photo by Stephen Cloonan.)
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