Podcast Episodes

Light Hearted Lite 23 – Don Terras, Grosse Point, Illinois

Grosse Point Light Station.
Photo by Jeremy D’Entremont.

Grosse Point Lighthouse, located at the southern end of Lake Michigan in Evanston, Illinoi…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Light Hearted ep 320: Lorna Pierce and Gloria Coder: Remembering Seamond Ponsart Roberts, part 2 of 2

This is part two of a two part interview with Lorna Pierce and Gloria Coder, the daughters of Seamond Ponsart Roberts (1940-2023). Seamond was the da…

11 months ago

Light Hearted ep 319 – Lorna Pierce and Gloria Coder: Remembering Seamond Ponsart Roberts, part 1 of 2

Young Seamond in front of the keeper’s house at Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts.

The guests in this episode are Gloria Coder and Lorna Pierce. Glor…

11 months, 1 week ago

Light Hearted Lite #22 – John Anderson, Great Duck Island, Maine

A light station was established on Maine’s 220-acre Great Duck Island in 1890, with a 42-foot-tall brick tower and three keepers’ dwellings. Only one…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Light Hearted ep 318: The storms of 2024 and Maine’s lighthouses: David Pomerantz, Ford Reiche, and Bob Trapani

Maine’s wave-swept Whaleback Lighthouse. (Photo by Dominic Trapani)

In January 2024, two powerful storms — just three days apart — struck northern …

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Light Hearted ep 317 – Artist Richard Klein and Peck Ledge, CT

Richard Klein

A lighthouse was proposed in 1896 to mark Peck (or Pecks) Ledge, at the east end of the Norwalk Islands in Connecticut. It began oper…

11 months, 4 weeks ago

Light Hearted Lite #21 – Sean Todd, Mount Desert Rock, Maine

Sean Todd

This is an edited version of an interview with Sean Todd that was first heard in episode 72 in July 2020. Sean serves on the marine scien…

1 year ago

Light Hearted ep 316 – Rhode Island nautical photographer Matthew Cohen

Matthew Cohen is a nautical photographer with more than 20 years of experience. Matthew acquired his love of boating as a child and raced with the su…

1 year ago

Light Hearted Lite #20 – USLHS’s Lighthouse Passport Program

This edition of Light Hearted Lite features several edited interviews that were originally heard in two episodes back in the spring of 2020. The s…

1 year ago

Light Hearted ep 315 – Town Historian David Wright, Stratford, CT

Stratford Point Light Station in 2015, photo by Jeremy D’Entremont David Wright

Stratford, Connecticut, was an active port in coastal trade, ship…

1 year ago