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Light Hearted ep 98 – Author Trudy Irene Scee, Pemaquid Point, Maine
Pemaquid Point Lighthouse is one of the most frequently visited attractions on the Maine coast, receiving about 100,000 visitors each year. The point…
5 years, 4 months ago
Light Hearted ep 97 – Dianne Wolfer and “Lighthouse Girl,” part 2
Fay Howe, courtesy of her son, Don Watson. Fay Howe, as drawn by illustrator Brian Simmonds for “Lighthouse Girl.”
This is part 2 of a two part int…
5 years, 4 months ago
Light Hearted ep 96 – Dianne Wolfer and “Lighthouse Girl,” part 1
Dianne Wolfer
Dianne Wolfer is an award-winning children’s author who lives on the south coast of Western Australia. A teacher who has worked in To…
5 years, 4 months ago
Light Hearted ep 95 – Filmmaker Rob Apse and “The Last Lightkeepers”; Dwight Berry on the lighthouses of NC’s Outer Banks
Filmmaker Rob Apse was born and raised in Reading, Massachusetts, but he spent summers on the coast of Maine and at Great East Lake in New Hampshire,…
5 years, 5 months ago
Light Hearted ep 94 – Desiree Heveroh, East Brother Island Light Station, CA; FL lighthouse history with Ralph Krugler
In March 1871, Congress appropriated funds for a lighthouse on the east side of California’s San Pablo Strait. It was decided that East Brother Isla…
5 years, 5 months ago
Light Hearted special edition – Dolly Snow Bicknell and the Flying Santa
The Flying Santa tradition traces its origins to a pioneering pilot named Bill Wincapaw. Wincapaw flew amphibious airplanes around the Penobscot Bay …
5 years, 5 months ago
Light Hearted ep 93 – Mark Davies and the Chance Heritage Trust
The Chance Brothers and Company glassworks began producing glass in 1824 at their facility in Smethwick, West Midlands, England. Before too long, the…
5 years, 5 months ago
Light Hearted special edition – Cape Hatteras (NC) 150th anniversary; Bett Padgett and John Havel
Offshore from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, the Gulf Stream collides with the Virginia Drift, a branch of the Labrador Current from Canada. This cur…
5 years, 5 months ago
Light Hearted ep 92 – Bob Mannino, Nantucket Lightship LV-112
The Nantucket South Shoals extend many miles south of Nantucket Island, which is south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. The shoals were a great hazard …
5 years, 5 months ago
Light Hearted ep 91 – Daniel Oginsky, North Manitou Shoal (MI), author/preservationist Bob Trapani, Jr.
North Manitou Island is in northeastern Lake Michigan, about 12 miles west-northwest of Leland, Michigan. A lighthouse was first established on the i…
5 years, 6 months ago