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Light Hearted ep 106 – Tim Bailey, light keeper at Halfway Rock, Maine; photo tips with Mike Leonard
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Halfway Rock is a windswept, rocky ledge far out in Maine’s Casco Bay, about nine miles east of Po…
5 years, 3 months ago
Light Hearted Special Edition – the U.S. Lighthouse Society’s Emergency Relief Grants
Although our nation has made much progress in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and we can now all start to see a guiding light at the end of the tunn…
5 years, 3 months ago
Light Hearted ep 105 – Rebecca Quinn and John Walls, Sheringham Point Lighthouse Preservation Society, BC
Sheringham Point Lighthouse. BC.
Photo by Jeremy D’Entremont.
Sheringham Point, in the community of Shirley, about 16 miles northwest from Race Rock…
5 years, 3 months ago
Light Hearted ep 104 – Elanie Bruton, lightkeeper’s daughter at Sheringham Point, BC
Jim Bruton was born in Wales in 1926, but his family relocated to British Columbia in Canada when he was just one year old. He started working in the…
5 years, 3 months ago
Light Hearted ep 103 – Photographer Pete Lerro
Pete Lerro is a graduate of Temple University in Pennsylvania, where he studied video, audio, and photography. In his career as a photographer, Pe…
5 years, 3 months ago
Light Hearted ep 102 – Richard Cummins, lighthouse keeper in Ireland, pt 2
This is part two of a two part interview with Richard Cummins, a native of Ireland who worked as a lighthouse keeper in that country for a decade.…
5 years, 3 months ago
Light Hearted ep 101 – Richard Cummins, lighthouse keeper in Ireland, pt 1
Richard Cummins
Richard Cummins is a native of Ireland who, for about 10 years ending in 1989, worked as a lighthouse keeper in that country. He sp…
5 years, 3 months ago
Light Hearted special edition – The first 100 episodes: a look back
The U.S. Lighthouse Society podcast “Light Hearted” was launched in June 2019. The podcast’s name refers to people who have lighthouses in their hear…
5 years, 4 months ago
Light Hearted ep 100 – Elizabeth Spires, author of “Kate’s Light.”
Elizabeth Spires was born in Lancaster, Ohio, and she now lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She has always admired the poetry of Emily Dickinson, and by …
5 years, 4 months ago
Light Hearted ep 99 – Betty Hindley Hatzikon, lighthouse keeper’s daughter
Like his father before him, young Joseph Hindley went to work in the textile mills of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Looking for a more adventurous life…
5 years, 4 months ago