Podcast Episodes

Light Hearted ep 140 – Alex Parry, Cape Otway, Australia

Cape Otway Lighthouse — in southern Victoria, Australia, about 50 miles southwest of Melbourne — is nicknamed the “Beacon of Hope.” 

For thousand…

4 years, 7 months ago

Light Hearted ep 139 – Dennis Kennedy, Marblehead, Ohio

Funds were appropriated for a lighthouse at the entrance to Sandusky Bay on Lake Erie in 1819, and the limestone tower went into service in 1822. It …

4 years, 7 months ago

Light Hearted ep 138 – Bessida Cauthorne White, the Stingray Point (VA) “contraband,” and Donald S. Murray, “For the Safety of All”(Scottish lights)

Bessida Cauthorne White

Stingray Point Lighthouse in Virginia, built in 1858, marked a dangerous shoal at the mouth of the Rappahannock River. In 1…

4 years, 8 months ago

Light Hearted 137 – Andy Robinson & the California Lighthouse Society; J. Dennis Robinson, NH Seacoast historian

Andy Robinson is a junior at Palo Alto High School in California, and he’s a co-chair for the Teen Advisory Council of the Palo Alto History Museum, …

4 years, 8 months ago

Light Hearted ep 136 -Carol & John O’Neil, Point Sur, CA

Point Sur juts out from a rugged portion of the California coast 25 miles south of Monterey Bay. The Lighthouse Board had considered a lighthouse at…

4 years, 8 months ago

Light Hearted ep 135 – Josh Liller, “The Florida Lighthouse Trail”

Josh Liller

Josh Liller has been the Historian and Collections Manager for the Loxahatchee River Historical Society and the Jupiter Inlet Lighthous…

4 years, 8 months ago

Light Hearted ep 134 – Lisa Nolan and Gerry Abbott, Block Island Southeast, RI

Block Island, south of the Rhode Island coast and east of the entrance to Long Island Sound, lies in the middle of major shipping lanes.  A lighthous…

4 years, 9 months ago

Light Hearted ep 133 – Greg Stone, Lighthouse Inn, Cape Cod, MA; Ralph Krugler, Florida historian/author

Early photo of Bass River Lighthouse, Massachusetts (National Archives)

Congress appropriated $4,000 for a lighthouse near the mouth of the Bass Ri…

4 years, 9 months ago

Light Hearted ep 132 – Meghan Agresto, Currituck Beach, NC

The Outer Banks, a 200-mile-long chain of barrier islands, stretch from southeastern Virginia to most of the North Carolina coast. The islands wer…

4 years, 9 months ago

Light Hearted ep 131 – Randy Polumbo, Orient Point, NY; George Latimer, Tarrytown, NY

Orient Point Lighthouse is a cast-iron, so-called “sparkplug” type lighthouse in a location known as Plum Gut, between Plum Island and Orient Point a…

4 years, 9 months ago