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Light Hearted ep 80 – Hilton Head Rear Range Light, South Carolina; Photo tips with Mike Leonard
Hilton Head Island, part of South Carolina’s Lowcountry region, is widely known for its twelve miles of pristine beaches and its golf courses. The Hi…
5 years, 8 months ago
Light Hearted ep 79 – Ian Duff, Scottish lighthouse keeper
With its long coastline and about 790 islands, Scotland has been home to a large number of lighthouses. The Northern Lighthouse Board, founded in 178…
5 years, 8 months ago
Light Hearted ep 78 – Linda Dianto, National Lighthouse Museum, NY
The U.S. Lighthouse Service constructed the Staten Island Lighthouse Depot on the former site of the New York Marine Hospital. The depot, which began…
5 years, 9 months ago
Light Hearted ep 77 – Lee Radzak and Hayes Scriven; Split Rock Light Station, Minnesota
Split Rock Lighthouse, one of the most picturesque lighthouses in the United States, is located on a 127-foot-high cliff on the northwest shore of La…
5 years, 9 months ago
Light Hearted ep 76 – Peter Kaufman discusses the Scotch Cap, Alaska, disaster
The Aleutian Islands are a chain of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller islands that form a dividing line between the Bering Sea to the north an…
5 years, 9 months ago
Light Hearted ep 75 – Sandy Bihn, Toledo Harbor Lighthouse Preservation Society, Ohio
Toledo Harbor Lighthouse was established in 1904 in the western end of Lake Erie, marking the entrance to the Toledo Shipping Channel and the approac…
5 years, 9 months ago
Light Hearted special edition – National Lighthouse Day 2020
On this date in 1789, the first Congress approved an act for the establishment of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers. Two hundred years la…
5 years, 9 months ago
Light Hearted ep 74 – Sue York, Eldred Rock Lighthouse Preservation Association, Alaska
Eldred Rock is at the north end of Alaska’s Lynn Canal, 55 miles north of the port of Juneau and about 35 miles south of Skagway. Eldred Rock Lighth…
5 years, 9 months ago
Light Hearted ep 73 – Karen Zacharuk, Keeper at Cape Beale, BC
Aerial view of Cape Beale, BC
With local maritime commerce in the area growing, the high cliffs of Cape Beale on the west coast of Vancouver Island i…
5 years, 10 months ago
Light Hearted ep 72 – Sean Todd, Mount Desert Rock, Maine
More than 20 miles from the nearest port at Mount Desert Island in Maine, low-lying, wave-swept Mount Desert Rock is only about 17 feet above sea lev…
5 years, 10 months ago