Podcast Episodes

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…

6 years, 2 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…

6 years, 3 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 …

6 years, 3 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…

6 years, 3 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…

6 years, 3 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…

6 years, 3 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…

6 years, 3 months ago

Light Hearted ep 62 – Elaine Jones, Burnt Island Lighthouse, Maine; Russ Katje, hall of fame Lighthouse Passport Program collector

On March 3, 1821, Congress appropriated $10,500 for three lighthouses on the Maine coast, one of them on five-acre Burnt Island at the west side of …

6 years, 3 months ago

Light Hearted ep 61 – Dave and Lynn Waller, owners of Graves Lighthouse, Massachusetts (pt 2 of 2)

Graves Lighthouse; photo by Jeremy D’Entremont

This is the second part of a two-part interview with Dave and Lynn Waller, owners of Graves Lighthouse…

6 years, 4 months ago

Light Hearted ep 60 – Dave and Lynn Waller, owners of Graves Lighthouse, Massachusetts (pt 1 of 2)

Graves Lighthouse is a classic, granite, wave-swept offshore lighthouse tower on a barren ledge in outer Boston Harbor. It went into service in 1905 …

6 years, 4 months ago