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Light Hearted ep 206 – Tara and Brian Flanagan, Bakers Island, MA
Bakers Island Light Station is off the coast of Salem, Massachusetts, a few miles north of Boston. The station was established in 1798 and the lighth…
3 years, 4 months ago
Light Hearted ep 205 – Nick Korstad and Kevin Ferias, Borden Flats, MA, pt 2 of 2
Borden Flats Lighthouse in 1900, from the U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Office.
Borden Flats Lighthouse was built in 1881 on a dangerous reef to hel…
3 years, 5 months ago
Light Hearted ep 204 – Nick Korstad and Kevin Ferias, Borden Flats, MA, pt 1 of 2
The city of Fall River, Massachusetts, situated where the Taunton River flows into Mount Hope Bay, was famed as the “Textile Capital of the World” in…
3 years, 5 months ago
Light Hearted ep 203 – Podcasters Emma Choi and Kylie Low
Emma Choi
The guests in this episode are the hosts of their own highly successful podcasts. Emma Choi is a comic and writer and host of the weekly …
3 years, 5 months ago
Light Hearted ep 202 – Bob Muller and Bob Lincoln: Stepping Stones, New York
According to an old Native American legend, there was a giant devil who caused much mayhem in a region that included parts of what is now Westchester…
3 years, 5 months ago
Light Hearted ep 201 – Kathy Mastako, “The Lighthouse at Point San Luis” (California)
The port of San Luis, California, developed into a major shipping point in the 1870s. A lighthouse at Point San Luis began operation on June 30, 1…
3 years, 6 months ago
Light Hearted 200th episode special
The Light Hearted podcast was launched in June 2019 to serve as a place for the exchange of information and ideas about lighthouses in the United Sta…
3 years, 6 months ago
Light Hearted ep 199 – Janice Reynolds and Ed Houde, children of Coast Guard light keeper Armand Houde
Armand Houde was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1927. He served in the U.S. Navy on the USS Gage and took part in the Battle of Iwo Jima, rece…
3 years, 6 months ago
Light Hearted 198 – Jim & Joyce Spencer, Karen & Dan McLean; Doubling Point Lighthouse, Maine, pt 2 of 2
Four light stations were established on Maine’s Kennebec River in 1898, on the approach to the busy shipbuilding center of Bath. The keeper’s house a…
3 years, 6 months ago
Light Hearted special edition – “A Safe Passage” by Irene Kelleher now playing in Portsmouth, NH
November 4, 2022
This is a special bonus episode of Light Hearted. The subject is a new play called A Safe Passage, being performed in Portsmouth, Ne…
3 years, 6 months ago