Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
Coast Guardsmen Greet Flying Santa. Coast Guardsmen station at Sankaty Head lighthouse on Nantucket Island wave a greeting to the plane bearing Edward Rowe Snow, New England's "Flying Santa", as he visited the famous beacon today (Dec. 21). Snow, saltwater historian, annually drops Christmas packages to lighthouse keepers and their families along the seacoast.
Associated Press · [ca. December 1951]
[Information from item housing] Lighthouses: Mass. & New England: Wire Photos
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