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The Woman Who Found the Bell in the Ice
Season 1 Episode 38
February 2023. The Bering Sea, just south of Saint George. Luna's crew hauls a long-lost bell from a net — bronze, barnacle-caked, engraved with a na…
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The Man Who Carried the Light to Whitson Head
Season 1 Episode 37
April 1997, four miles off Whitson Head on the Maine coast. I was on a friend's lobster boat when we found a rowboat adrift with a man who had no mem…
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The Man Who Drank from the Eel River
Season 1 Episode 36
Luna sits on the wet deck of a trawler in the black North Atlantic, smoking a cigarette she doesn't want, and tells the story of the summer she spent…
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The Man Who Heard the Hull Sing at Porthallow
Season 1 Episode 35
In the winter of 2009, Luna's cousin Elias took a short-term berth on the Nancy M, a fifty-year-old trawler out of Porthallow, Maine — a harbor so sm…
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The Man Who Heard the Cogwheel in the Frost
Season 1 Episode 34
Winter 1982. A rural Alabama crossroads called Bitterweed Cut. Luna's uncle worked the night maintenance shift at a cotton gin that had been shut dow…
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The Woman Who Carried the Boat Ashore at Deadman's Reach
Season 1 Episode 33
On a frozen November night in 1991, Luna's father brought home a woman he found walking the beach at Deadman's Reach, a mile-long stretch of shale an…
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The Woman Who Remembered the Drowning Light
Season 1 Episode 32
One night in October 2022, I met a woman on the deck of a trawler in Port Clyde, Maine. She was not a fisherman, not a tourist, not anyone with a rea…
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The Woman Who Held the Night Line
Season 1 Episode 31
Off the coast of St. Elmo, Maine, in the late autumn of 2019, Luna's uncle brought aboard a woman found clinging to a buoy line in calm seas. She wor…
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The Man Who Closed the Lighthouse for Good
Season 1 Episode 30
October 1987, Cape Disappointment, Washington. Luna tells the story of Evan Maddox, the last keeper of the North Head Light before the Coast Guard au…
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The Man Who Watched the Shore Light
Season 1 Episode 29
Luna remembers a night in October 2017 on the dock of Whitemouth, Newfoundland, where she met an old fisherman named Enoch who spent every evening wa…
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