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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…
5 years, 2 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…
5 years, 2 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…
5 years, 2 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…
5 years, 2 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…
5 years, 2 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…
5 years, 3 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…
5 years, 3 months ago
Light Hearted ep 123 – Caroline Taylor, Signal Tower Museum and Bell Rock Lighthouse, Scotland
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Wave-swept Bell Rock Lighthouse, about five miles from Arbroath in southeastern Scotland, was designed by t…
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Light Hearted ep 122 – Elena Hansteensen, Littleisland Lighthouse, Norway
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Litløy fyr, on a small island off the northwest coast of Norway, was first lit in October 1912. For a time, it was the seco…
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Light Hearted episode 121 – William Rawlings, “Lighthouses of the Georgia Coast”
From the mid-eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries, the waterways of coastal Georgia, from the St. Marys River in the south to the Savanna…
5 years, 3 months ago