Podcast Episodes

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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago

Light Hearted episode 90 – Aimee Newell, Stonington Lighthouse Museum, CT

Stonington, Connecticut, grew into a thriving port known for its shipbuilding, sealing, and whaling. By 1819, the town had as many as 15 vessels enga…

5 years, 10 months ago

Light Hearted ep 89 – Wayne Clark, Patrick Hussey, and Dick Malone; Admiralty Head Lighthouse, Washington

The 1861 building, known as Red Bluff Lighthouse. (Island County Historical Society)

The promontory known as Admiralty Head, on the west coast of W…

5 years, 10 months ago

Light Hearted ep 88 – Sal Giglia and Bill Cody, Neds Point Lighthouse, MA; firefighters become lighthouse keepers in Graham, WA

With a large harbor on Buzzards Bay, Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, developed as a center for shipbuilding, whaling, and coastal trade. Congress appro…

5 years, 10 months ago