One woman stands at the unlikely intersection of Old Barney, Marie Antoinette and ancient Pompeii, and her name is Ellen S. Low, keeper of Barnegat Lighthouse from 1835 to 1839.
At the Barnegat Light Museum on Thursday, July 10, Lizanne Daukas Oliner gave a presentation on Low’s often hazy history, displaying a hand-sewn dress to suggest what Low may have worn as she oversaw the whalers and fishermen shuttling in and out of the always perilous inlet.
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