| Show '':' : :' '' ' ' !' "'- - :''''!-- :: '7' ' !'21::S!'''-1'' ' ' --' ' ' - :1- 'FT' ' ": '" 7 : - - 14OP Id4404101611a1141410014430410A4liatmlIdik A 4 i: l 0 I f ABOARD THE 'SUNBEAM' a lobsterman and his son stopped rowing and listened Above the wind they heard a motor Out of the storni suddenly appeared a great White cross It was emblazoned upon the bow of a small rugged ship Seeing the cross father and son knew the boat at once She was the Sunbeam called by Island folk along this bleak coast: God's tugboat A preacher with megaphone came on deck "Ahoy Alpheus!" The lobsterrnan stood up in his pitching skiff The boy waved THE SNOWSTORM cans who also support her work (Among them are John D Rockefeller Jr and the Sigma Kappa college sorority) Eleven months a year she hauls food vitadoctors-t- o mins clothing-an- d the people of the Maine Americans who have two great beliefs: God and Independence But in the 12th month the Sunbeam-load- ed with a Christmas boat The Sunbeam should (but doesn't) have radar and modern sounding machines to keep her off the rocks Yet she tackles weather when other boats stay in harbor Once in fog she lost her 'propeller When the Coast Guard found her she was heaving close to the rocks v IN i 'l ' Gulf-stur- - Ji "'Hoy Parson!" The Parson was Maine's famous seagoin' preacher the Rev Neal Boustield "Alpheus" he roared "we can't get Into the lighthouse with our Christmas packages Weather too thick and tide's too low "Will you take them ashore for us?" The lobsterman grinned "Drop 'em aboard Parson We'll row 'em over soon as the weather clears" In cold rolling seas the transfer was made Christmas toys for the keeper's children and a wreath candy even a small tree In this frosty way Santa Claus made his 1951 behind the snow storm-t- o anof Maine's other lighthouses Santa calls in many strange ways across the length and breadth of America but nowhere is his visit more dramatic than here in the bleak Coast of Maine Parish coast Back and forth along this 2500-mil- e line cruises the annual Christmas ship the i 1 I T 3 I i -eoal t 3 - '-- 4 ' vr-- - - ‘ :: - -- 0 t'ii‘ --- - V - -0 t-- -o--- r i - -- - -- 4 r t " lig1 litlkAoot:timk::t-i—ik::'v-ttotik::tbtirLlrdeo- HERE COMES THE CHRISTMAS BOAT! Children come running at Frenchboro at sound of Sunbeam's foghorn 1 the show!" In a nearby house' her brother was getting a soupbowl haircut for the "movie" "Held us up 20 minutes" says Parson Bousfield "Nobody complained When his father finished the haircut we began the show!" t' li tl : - " I: P i -- t - t '1 T — - -------- 0 ?7 - 4 -- '"'''-' i :t- ! 1 rty i N 11 r ‘ y-f' :'?i- -- ----44- — '' - -- - 44: ? :14' lc? 1rt ' I !: --- 1 - - US I "I'Lvir-- - i i ens - ' -- e4 7: 64 6 4 rno !!':7!'11 ' I 4 - ! &IME I LotiAii4abil TIRELESS mission Bousfield deliver worker Miss Edith Drury helps Parson gifts at one lonely island school ' 1 i 0 i ' 0 -- IIi i 1) t - f L) d i: Ai L t t ' o 111111 LL t : r 1 i j ' - T TIP TITO) 1 It 4 i ) A I ': : ' ' !'' y 1st ' 1 A '1 ( -- usually is a lay preacher Cap'n Ak William Marshall Barry A third churchman Ray Colbum is engineer Colburn is a former vestryman at Seal Harbor The cook Sans Vamum hails from the Mt Desert Larger Parish Church But Sunbeam's work is Her help goes to all regardless of faith Strange and pitiful things happen on the Sunbeam Two islanders have died in her tiny saloon while being rushed to hospitals But many lives have been saved Sunbeam's doors are cut wide: to admit stretchers Amusing things happen too Not long ago Sunbeam took a "movie" to one island But a little girl came running: "Please don't start Maine Sea Coast Mission's Sunbeam Manned by four sturdy churchmen the Sunbeam is known and loved by thousands of Maine folk and by other thotisands of Ameri 1 ' : ) r- 11 40 ( I‘ AT HER WHEEL gale-batter- ed Iti i Couple with a Haircut visit-uns- een ' I dy es gifts-becom- f 41 :1 i ' t I 1 1 '' - t' '' ' F-- Iro 1 -i t t ': I t ' ': I ' 4 1 - - i ' i ' i ''' i t ' ? k '' I'' ' – I1 11 ' I f '- t ' I n—1!1 '''14 - ' ' ze A r L t10114 fereq ' stg : BOYS LUG GIFTS from Sunbeam up to keeper of Light which shines for over the Atlantic ftttottot -- -- 4' - 1 il' - 4 f - e ' ''' I : N4 s & 0 I tmos 1- ' v "1 It ' f4 z--- n tt 'r 17 ' i'''A te— 4 ' :' 4 g 4 '''''''40414240 (- - 1r t '::::'-!'- 'I - if) 4' 2 t 4 ' It '4t 4 i et k IIt 14Coilsmii 4 4 (01 do fr '1 i 4 i ' 1 t- "1-di- 1 le ( 17-- 4t ' r 1- tr k 4' '44 "-- - 1 VP I ime : I tg Vk 4 )41 0 ) 1 II' - I A 4 i ' VL14'4i ' '' I 4:: e 1 2 tc r t V 4 7''' It - : 4 ' J ''''' 9k 41: s ' gl'1 : MAU It '- - ' V tl t- i ' - I for lonely Maine islanders with (rifts - AT " HOMEWARD BOUND "Santa" Bousfield (R) leads a group in Christmas hymns in Sunbeam's saloon AO' gr 4 f 1 CHRISTMAS EVE will find Sunbeam her mission accomplished nosing back into her snug berth ot Seal Harbor DICIAtiall 231951 pored 1 |
