Sugar House Bulletin | 1941-06-06 | Page 3 | Odd School

Odd School Machias Seal island, a lonely and forbidding pile of rocks nine miles off the coast of Maine, can boast of what is perhaps the oddest school on the North American continent. The island itself is a part of Maine but is leased to Canada. There at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, 12 miles from the Canadian island of Grand Manan, the Dominion government govern-ment maintains a large lighthouse for the protection of the Bay of Fundy shipping. The barren, rock-strewn island is inhabited only by two lighthouse keepers and their families, and Herbert Her-bert W. Dayton, a young New Brunswick Bruns-wick school teacher whom the government gov-ernment maintains on the island to instruct the three children of Mr. and Mrs. Earle Ingersoll, the second lighthouse keeper and his wife.