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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…
1 year, 3 months 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 …
1 year, 3 months 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…
1 year, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months ago
Light Hearted Lite #19 – A Tale of Two Sparkplugs: Conimicut and Sakonnet, RI
Conimicut Lighthouse in 2007. Photo by Jeremy D’Entremont.
This episode has two segments. First is a new interview with Mayor Frank Picozzi of Warwic…
1 year, 4 months ago
Light Hearted ep 314 – Joe Bains and Ray Jenness, Prudence Island, RI
Prudence Island Lighthouse, photo by Jeremy D’Entremont
Prudence Island, about seven miles long, is the third largest island in Rhode Island’s Narr…
1 year, 5 months ago
Light Hearted ep 313 – Thomas Point Shoal, MD, and “Drew’s Grand Adventure”; NHLPA conference recap
There are three segments in this episode. The first recaps a recent virtual conference that the USLHS held in late March. The conference celebrated t…
1 year, 5 months ago