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Light Hearted ep 235 – Paul Duval & Wesley Randles, Seal Point Lighthouse, South Africa
Seal Point Lighthouse is on Cape St. Francis in South Africa, close to the southeasternmost point on the continent. At 91 feet tall, it’s the tallest…
2 years, 10 months ago
Light Hearted 234 – Sally Montgomery and Northern Ireland’s “Great Light”; special lighthouse month at a York, Maine, gallery
The waterfront of Belfast, Northern Ireland, is home to one of the world’s biggest tourist attractions: Titanic Belfast, also known as the Titanic Mu…
2 years, 10 months ago
Light Hearted ep 233 – Jean Muchanic and Buddy Grover, Absecon, NJ
Absecon Lighthouse in Atlantic City, New Jersey, has the distinction of being New Jersey’s tallest lighthouse and the nation’s third tallest masonry …
2 years, 10 months ago
Light Hearted ep 232 – North Head Lighthouse, Washington
The first lighthouse in the Pacific Northwest was established in 1856 on the north side of the entrance to the Columbia River at Cape Disappointment,…
2 years, 10 months ago
Light Hearted 231 – National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act and the GSA; National Lighthouse Day Dance Contest
The National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000, or NHLPA, was created to aid the preservation of federally owned historic light stations. …
2 years, 11 months ago
Light Hearted ep 230 – Lake Erie Lighthouses of Pennsylvania; Chicago Harbor Lighthouse, Illinois
Erie Land Lighthouse, photo by Brian Berchtold.
There are three lighthouses on the Lake Erie shore within the state of Pennsylvania. The first of t…
2 years, 11 months ago
Light Hearted ep 229 – Connie Small, “The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife”
Connie and Elson Small in the 1940s
Constance Scovill Small was born into a Maine family that included sea captains and lighthouse keepers. Connie …
2 years, 11 months ago
Light Hearted ep 228 – USLHS tours, and “Lighthouse Girl” revisited
Dianne Wolfer’s 2009 book Lighthouse Girl won the West Australian Young Readers’ Book Award for Picture Books. Lighthouse Girl tells the poignant …
2 years, 11 months ago
Light Hearted ep 227 – Barry Porter, “Adventures of a Lightkeeper” (Newfoundland) pt 3 of 3
Courtesy of Barry Porter
Barry Porter was born into a farming family in Porterville, on the north coast of Newfoundland, Canada. After working as a…
3 years ago
Light Hearted ep 226 – Barry Porter, “Adventures of a Lightkeeper” (Newfoundland) pt 2 of 3
Barry Porter
This is the second part in a three-part interview with Barry Porter, whose new book Adventures of a Lightkeeper tells the story of his…
3 years ago