Neptune Papers Issue Nine - Cover One: Bill Sofield’s Maine Lighthouse by Jesper D. Lund née Mitford

née Mitford

Patrick McGrath

purchased their Maine lighthouse 25 years ago (on a whim—they were reading the Sunday New York Times real estate section over breakfast)

had been through many incarnations: from a Commanderie for the Knights Templar in 1176

Neptune Papers Issue Nine - Cover One: Bill Sofield’s Maine Lighthouse by Jesper D. Lund née Mitford444 PAGES When Bill Sofield and his partner, Dennis Anderson, purchased their Maine lighthouse 25 years ago (on a whimthey were reading the Sunday New York Times real estate section over breakfast), its safe to say they had no idea what they were getting into. At the closing, which was the first time theyd set foot on the island, their lawyer whispered, We have a way to get out of it. A loophole, Anderson remembers. We just looked at each other and