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Light Hearted ep 213 – Kraig Anderson, “Lighthouse Friends”
Kraig Anderson
Kraig Anderson is the owner and webmaster of one of the most popular lighthouse-related websites on the internet, lighthousefriends.…
3 years, 7 months ago
Light Hearted ep 212 – Roie McCann, Clare Island Lighthouse, Ireland
Clare Island is at the entrance to Clew Bay, off Ireland’s western Atlantic coast. It’s the largest of Clew Bay’s 365 islands, only six of which are …
3 years, 7 months ago
Light Hearted ep 211 – Amy Anderson & Andrew Smalldon, Yaquina lighthouses, Oregon; Jean Muchanic, Valentine’s event at Absecon, NJ
The town of Newport on the central Oregon coast is home to two picturesque lighthouses, at Yaquina Head and Yaquina Bay. Yaquina Bay Lighthouse, a pr…
3 years, 7 months ago
Light Hearted 210 – Goat Island, Maine, part 2 of 2
In 1990, Goat Island Light Station, at the entrance to Cape Porpoise Harbor in southern Maine, became one of the last light stations in the country …
3 years, 8 months ago
Light Hearted 209 – Goat Island, Maine, part 1 of 2
Cape Porpoise is a small coastal village in the town of Kennebunkport, Maine. More than a dozen islands protect the deep, sheltered harbor at Cape Po…
3 years, 8 months ago
Light Hearted ep 208 – Rob Dixon and Larry Herlth, Alligator Reef, Florida
The Florida reef lights date back to 1852 when Carysfort Reef Lighthouse was completed under the direction of Lt. George Meade of the Army Corps of E…
3 years, 8 months ago
Light Hearted special edition – Jen Lewis, storm damage at Point Cabrillo, California
Point Cabrillo is in Northern California, about midway between San Francisco and the border with Oregon. In 1908 an octagonal lighthouse tower was bu…
3 years, 8 months ago
Light Hearted ep 207 – Lighthouse damage in recent storms
From December 21 through 26, 2022, an historic extratropical bomb cyclone brought blizzard conditions and winter storms to much of Canada and the Uni…
3 years, 8 months ago
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, 8 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, 9 months ago