Join host jeremy D’Entremont and co-host Cindy Johnson at New Hampshire’s Exeter Inn as they discuss the Kõpu Lighthouse on the Estonian Island of Hiiumaa, originally built in 1531. It’s the third oldest operating lighthouse in the world.
The featured interview is with Anne E. Witsenburg of Monumentsfund Aruba, the organization that manages the California Lighthouse near the northern tip of the island. The recently restored lighthouse, which is more than 100 years old, is open to the public all year.
There’s another trivia question with prizes going to the first two people to answer correctly.
There will be two or three episodes of “Light Hearted” released per week for a few more weeks. Beginning the week of July 22, there will be one episode per week (on Mondays), with occasional special additional episodes.
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Jeremy D’Entremont is the author of more than 20 books and hundreds of articles on lighthouses and maritime history. He is the president and historian for the American Lighthouse Foundation and founder of Friends of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouses, and he has lectured and narrated cruises throughout the Northeast and in other regions. He is also the producer and host of the U.S. Lighthouse Society podcast, “Light Hearted.” He can be emailed at Jeremy@uslhs.org
We visited the California Lighthouse in Aruba in 2003. A delightful trip