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"Prior to her death from cancer in 2001, author Mary Daubenspeck lived through several profoundly ""moving"" experiences, including the relocation of the Nauset Lighthouse in 1996 and later of her private, personally owned and much-beloved Keeper's House in 1998. As a talented writer and author, she conscientiously maintained a regular real-time journal, which together with her frequent contributions to the Keeper's House Logbook, comprise a captivating and vital record of these two historic events not previously documented from the standpoint of an intimately involved eyewitness. Mary's extraordinary role in determining the ultimate fate of the Nauset Light Keeper's House, and the legacy she left for Cape Cod and its people through the selfless donation of her most cherished possession, is recounted by her co-author and brother Tim Daubenspeck, who was lovingly recruited by Mary to take the reins and manage the property through the term of the Daubenspeck Family's temporary private dwelling ""use permit"" extending to 2024."

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"""A tower without a setting; a setting without a tower - neither should be the fate of the Nauset Light Station"" Mary E. Daubenspeck ""Because what draws people to the Nauset Light Station -- to photograph it, to paint it, to appreciate it -- is not just the Lighthouse itself. It is (to use architect Conrad Nobili's elegant phrase) the ""proud composition"" of all three historic structures, standing together atop this cliff."" Mary E.Daubenspeck"

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"Timothy H Daubenspeck, brother of Mary E Daubenspeck, managed the Nauset Light Keeper's House from the time of Mary's death in 2001 to the expiration of the Family's limited use permit in 2024. A lifelong Cape Cod visitor and occasional part-time resident, Timothy was employed for 37 years as a Senior Engineer in semiconductor development and manufacturing, during which time he accrued more than 170 U.S. Patents and earned IBM's ""Master Inventor"" designation. Tim became a first-time author in 2024 when it became obvious to him that the undocumented story of Mary's Keeper's House legacy - an important piece of local Cape Cod History - was in danger of becoming lost forever, at the time of the transition of the Keeper's House operation from private back to public hands. It has been Tim's greatest privilege to put together the book that Mary wanted to write, but for whom time did not permit the opportunity. Mary E Daubenspeck, retired Corporate Communications Director, professional freelance writer and preservationist, had published several books and articles prior to her death from cancer in 2001. Mary was the private owner of the Nauset Light Keeper's House and Oil house from 1982 until the time at which she donated them to the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1999, for the sole purpose of keeping the Nauset Light Station intact - i.e. the Lighthouse, the Keeper's House and the Oil House - for the people of Cape Cod, and for posterity. Mary's first book ""NAUSET LIGHT: A Personal History"" (1995) describes her life in the context of the history of Nauset Light and her sense of personal responsibility of private ownership of the Keeper's House. Mary's courage and conviction that the Keeper's House and Oil House should never be separated from the Lighthouse led her to selflessly and charitably gift her cherished seaside home to the Cape Cod National Seashore. Mary believed that we each are accountable to something ""greater than ourselves"" and actively lived out this belief with her Keeper's House and Oil House preservation activity."

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