Podcast Episodes

Light Hearted ep 130 – Author Elinor DeWire; new Mid-Atlantic lighthouse postage stamps

Elinor DeWire at Cape Meares Lighthouse, Oregon

Elinor DeWire is an award-winning author, editor, public speaker, educator, and blogger based in Co…

4 years, 9 months ago

Light Hearted 129 – Jen Lewis, Point Cabrillo, CA

Point Cabrillo is in Northern California, about midway between San Francisco and the border with Oregon. The point is named for Juan Rodriguez Cabril…

4 years, 10 months ago

Light Hearted ep 128 – Chris Overcash – Climate change & Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse, MD

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Chris Overcash is the Senior Engineer and Deputy Director of Coastal Resilience for EA En…

4 years, 10 months ago

Light Hearted ep 127 – April Havens, Piney Point, MD; Lee Radzak, Split Rock, MN

The lighthouse at Piney Point in Maryland –14 miles from Chesapeake Bay up the Potomac River — was established in 1836, making it the oldest lighthou…

4 years, 10 months ago

Light Hearted special edition – Noel Lynch, Hook Lighthouse, Ireland

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Ireland’s Hook Lighthouse is the oldest continuously operating lighthouse in the world. The tapering headla…

4 years, 10 months ago

Light Hearted 126 – Brian Tefft, Rose Island in Newport, RI

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Eighteen-acre Rose Island, about a mile offshore from Newport, Rhode Island, has a commanding position in Narragansett Bay…

4 years, 10 months ago

Light Hearted ep 125 – Kirby Eldridge, Boon Island, Maine

Boon Island is located in southern Maine, about six miles from the nearest point of land. The popular writer Celia Thaxter once called the small rock…

4 years, 11 months ago

Light Hearted ep 125 – Kirby Eldridge, Boon Island, Maine

Boon Island is located in southern Maine, about six miles from the nearest point of land. The popular writer Celia Thaxter once called the small rock…

4 years, 11 months ago

Light Hearted special edition – Van Calhoun, Bob Taylor, & Bill Palmer, Hudson-Athens Lighthouse, NY

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In the late 1860s, the hazard known as the Middle Ground Flats — opposite the City of Hudson, New York, in…

4 years, 11 months ago

Light Hearted ep 124 – Marlene O’Connell Russell, Cape Bonavista in Newfoundland, Canada

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The Bonavista Peninsula is on the east coast of Newfoundland, Canada, separating Trinity Bay to the south fr…

4 years, 11 months ago