My painting was done on an old hexagon shaped coffee table that was actually destine for the trash. My friend and I loved the turned legs and unique shape of the table and started talking about how beautiful it would be repainted a nice color. One thing led to another when my friend, who loves visiting the lighthouse, asked if I would consider painting a small replica of the light house on the table. I was happy to give it a try, but that small replica turned into the entire tabletop! My dear friend loved the end result and I was happy and proud to do it for him. And we saved a wonderful table.

The Blackistone Island Light was a lighthouse located on what is now St. Clement's Island on the Potomac River in Maryland. It is best known as the target of a Confederate raid in the Civil War. Completed in 1851, the structure was destroyed by fire in 1956 and its shell was razed; a replica was completed in 2008.

Saint Clements Island, also called Blakiston Island or Blackistone Island, islet (40 acres) in the Potomac River, St. Mary’s county, southern Maryland, U.S., just off Coltons Point. The first Maryland settlers under the Calverts (Barons Baltimore) landed there from the ships Ark and Dove on March 25, 1634. A large cross (erected 1934) marks the site of the arrival of these Roman Catholic colonists and of the celebration of their first mass prior to their founding of St. Marys City. Mementos are in the St. Clement’s Island Museum, on the mainland at Coltons Point. The island is a state park.

For more history and info:

This first link gives a history of the island and lighthouse. It covers the first colonists to land on the island, the building of the first lighthouse and first lighthouse keeper, and how the keeper’s pregnant wife saved the lighthouse during the Civil War. https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=1120