Podcast Episodes

Light Hearted ep 71 – John Anderson, Great Duck Island, Maine

This is the first of two episodes focusing on light stations that are owned by the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. Great Duck Island is…

5 years, 10 months ago

Light Hearted ep 70 – Dennis Tardiff, Friends of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse, Rhode Island

Pomham Rocks is a tiny island in the Providence River, about 800 feet from the east shore of the Riverside section of East Providence, Rhode Island. …

5 years, 10 months ago

Light Hearted ep 69 – Ralph Krugler, Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse, Florida, pt 2 of 2

This is part two of a two-part interview with Ralph Krugler, historian for the Hillsboro Lighthouse Preservation Society. Ralph is not only one of th…

5 years, 10 months ago

Light Hearted ep 68 – Ralph Krugler, Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse, Florida, pt 1 of 2

Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse is about halfway between Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton on the southeast coast of Florida, marking the northern limit of t…

5 years, 11 months ago

Light Hearted ep 67 – Cyndy Carney, Friends of Seguin Island Light Station, Maine

The lighthouse on Maine’s Seguin Island was approved by President George Washington in May 1793. The tower had to be rebuilt in 1819, and then again…

5 years, 11 months ago

Light Hearted ep 66 – Museum of Scottish Lighthouses: Lynda McGuigan and Michael Strachan

Kinnaird Head Lighthouse is in Fraserburgh, a town in Aberdeenshire in northeastern Scotland. The original navigational light at Kinnaird Head was a …

5 years, 11 months ago

Light Hearted ep 65 – Sam McKillop, North Carr Lightship, Scotland; Dwight Berry, Baltimore area lighthouses

This is the first of two episodes dealing with Scottish topics. Episode 66 will be posted on Wednesday, June 18, and will feature the Museum of Scott…

5 years, 11 months ago

Light Hearted ep 64 – Chuck Clarke, Point Betsie, Michigan

Point Betsie Light Station is on the northeast side of Lake Michigan, north of the city of Frankfort. The lighthouse, built of cream city brick from…

5 years, 11 months ago

Light Hearted Special Edition – Jem Finer, London’s Experimental Lighthouse and “Longplayer”

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Lighthouse (Wikimedia Commons photo by Grim23) James Dougass
(U.S. Lighthouse Society)

In an area of London known as the Dock…

5 years, 11 months ago

Light Hearted ep 63 – Brent Tompkins, White Shoal Lighthouse, Michigan

White Shoal Lighthouse, USLHS photo by Chad Kaiser.

White Shoal Lighthouse is twenty miles west of the Mackinac Bridge and Mackinaw City at the north…

5 years, 11 months ago