Archetypal Hermit, The Lantern, and Stone Alley in Nantucket...

Entrance to Stone Alley from Union Street

The Archetypal Hermit's original Lantern was first lighted on the sidewalk outside Emmon's Corner at 21 Federal Street and carried on Main Street during the Summer of 1972. This Lantern eventually was lighted at The Steps in Stone Alley by three Brothers in Spirit known as the Lantern Triad: one was the Hermit, another was the Catalyst, and the third was the Phoenix (code names) on July 11, 1979... the day Skylab fell out of the sky into the Pacific Ocean. This Triad lit the Lantern again on August 13 of the same year at the Steps for the last time together, yet a Tesseract was formed on July 2, 1981 at home of the Catalyst, including his natural Brother, and the Phoenix. Triad and Tesseract were both dissolved after that, replaced on March 11, 1985 with another Brother in Spirit as Catalyst and a Sister in Spirit who was present at lighting of the Lantern's initial candle. They lit it at Steps in Stone Alley on that date. Final Illumination of original Lantern was by the Hermit and this Brother in Spirit on October 12, 1985, and the Lantern was "Passed" the next day when the Archetypal Hermit personally dismembered the Lantern, sealed pieces into a black wooden box, and took it to the site where Great Point Light fell into the Atlantic Ocean during a storm on March 30, 1984...

Stone Alley Steps, where Lantern was Lit

Archetypal Hermit first set foot upon the Island of Nantucket  on October 4, 1971