Podcast Episodes

Light Hearted ep 299 – Nick Korstad: Borden Flats, MA; Big Bay Point, MI; Browns Head, ME

Nick Korstad

Nick Korstad, who is originally from Portland, Oregon, fell in love with lighthouses when he was in middle school. When Borden Flats L…

1 year, 7 months ago

Light Hearted ep 298 – John Bolster, Lightship Overfalls, Delaware

Lightship Overfalls, photo by Jeremy D’Entremont

The Lightship Overfalls, more properly known as the LV-118 or the WAL 539, was the last lightship …

1 year, 7 months ago

Light Hearted ep 297 – U.S. Lighthouse Society President Henry Gonzalez, pt 2 of 2

Henry and Chris with two of their grandkids

This is part two of a two-part interview with Henry Gonzalez, who became the president of the U.S. Ligh…

1 year, 8 months ago

Light Hearted ep 296 – U.S. Lighthouse Society President Henry Gonzalez, part 1 of 2

Henry Gonzalez and his wife, Chris, at Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse, Maryland.

This week’s guest, Henry Gonzalez, was the U.S. Lighthouse Society’…

1 year, 8 months ago

Light Hearted ep 295 – From 1988: Maurice Babcock Jr. (Boston Light, MA); Larry Baum (Fort Point,ME); Malcolm Rouse (Owls Head, ME)

Jeremy D’Entremont and Malcom Rouse at Owls Head Light Station in 1988. Photo by Charlotte Raczkowsi.

The three interviews heard in this episode da…

1 year, 8 months ago

Light Hearted ep 294 – Christian Taber, “Be Your Own Navigator”

Christian Taber is a 17-year-old high school student and athlete living in Upstate New York. Christian is a speaker, author, and entrepeneur. A pa…

1 year, 8 months ago

Light Hearted ep 293 – Michael Leahy and Joe Livolsi, Cedar Island, NY

The badly rusted lantern was lifted off the building for restoration in 2013. (Courtesy of Friends of the Cedar Island Lighthouse)

Three-acre Cedar…

1 year, 8 months ago

Light Hearted ep 292 – Restoration of Scituate Lighthouse, MA

The town of Scituate, Massachusetts, on Boston’s South Shore, developed a significant fishing industry by the late 1800s. A stone lighthouse tower…

1 year, 9 months ago

Light Hearted ep 291 – Sean O’Connor, Rose Island, RI

Rose Island Lighthouse, photo by Jeremy D’Entremont

Located a mile offshore from Newport, Rhode Island, is Rose Island Lighthouse, which began serv…

1 year, 9 months ago

Light Hearted ep 290 – Suellen Wedmore, poems about women lighthouse keepers; Melanie Correia, New Bedford Whaling Museum

Suellen Wedmore and a first-order Fresnel lens on display at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Massachuetts. Melanie Correia

Suellan Wedmore‘s p…

1 year, 9 months ago