Podcast Episodes

Light Hearted ep 289 – Remembering Buddy Grover at Absecon, NJ; repairs at Pemaquid Point, Maine

The fog bell house at Pemaquid Point after the storms of January 2024

The lighthouse tower at Pemaquid Point in the town of Bristol, Maine, was bui…

1 year, 9 months ago

Light Hearted ep 288 – Cori Convertito, Key West, Florida

Key West Lighthouse, courtesy of KWAHS

Key West Lighthouse has stood as a well-loved landmark in one of America’s most colorful cities since 1848, …

1 year, 10 months ago

Light Hearted 287 – Larry Wright, Great Lakes lighthouses author & photographer

Larry Wright is a national gold medal award winning photographer who has been involved with lighthouse preservation since 1991. He was on the Boar…

1 year, 10 months ago

Light Hearted 286 – Ken Burke, Piney Point, MD

Piney Point Lighthouse and keepers house, Maryland.
Photo by Jeremy D’Entremont

This episode has three segments. In the first, photographer Pete Le…

1 year, 10 months ago

Light Hearted ep 285 – Bill McIntyre and Carie Palmer, Concord Point, MD

Concord Point Lighthouse, photo by Jeremy D’Entremont

Concord Point Lighthouse in Havre de Grace, Maryland, was built in 1827. That makes it the se…

1 year, 10 months ago

Light Hearted ep 284 – Annapolis Maritime Museum & Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, MD

Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse

The Annapolis Maritime Museum and Park, or AMM, is devoted to teaching people about the area’s maritime heritage and …

1 year, 11 months ago

Light Hearted Lite #6 – Author Lenore Skomal discusses lighthouse heroine Ida Lewis

Ida Lewis

This is an edited version of an interview first heard in episode 48 in February 2020. The guest is author Lenore Skomal.

Ida Lewis was po…

1 year, 11 months ago

Light Hearted ep 283 – Sea Girt, New Jersey

Sea Girt Lighthouse

Before Sea Girt Light was established in 1896, there was a long stretch of more than 38 miles with no lighthouses on the New Je…

1 year, 11 months ago

Light Hearted Lite #5 – Terry Rowden, Little River, Maine

Terry Rowden

This is an edited version of an interview that originally appeared in Light Hearted episode 25 in September 2019. Terry Rowden, a nat…

1 year, 11 months ago

Light Hearted ep 282 – Ben Ridings, Cape May, NJ

Cape May Lighthouse, New Jersey. USLHS photo by James Hill.

Cape May Lighthouse stands at the southern tip of the state of New Jersey, on the north…

1 year, 11 months ago