Suellan Wedmore‘s poetry has appeared in many publications and she has won numerous awards, including first place in both the Writer’s Digest Rhyming and the Non-Rhyming Poem contests. The poems in Suellen’s book A Fixed White Light enter the lives of six of courageous and mostly forgotten female lighthouse keepers, giving readers the opportunity to experience their heroism as well as their trials in a time when they were often met with skepticism and discrimination.
The second guest in this podcast episode is Melanie Correia, associate curator of exhibitions and collections at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in southeastern Massachusetts. The city of New Bedford was a whaling capital and the richest city in the world in the mid-1800s. Today the museum plays a critical role as champions for whale preservation and guardians of the area’s heritage and culture.
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U.S. Lighthouse Society Historian Jeremy D’Entremont is the author of 24 books and hundreds of articles on lighthouses and maritime history. He is a past president of 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’s weekly podcast, “Light Hearted.” He can be emailed at Jeremy@uslhs.org
Thanks Jeremy and Melanie. I so so enjoyed this. I did 2 term papers on Moby Dick one in high school and one in college. I am just reading book on the Whaleing ship, The Essex, In the Heart of the Sea which was perhaps the trigger for Moby Dick. Would love to see the New Bedford Maritime museum. May be some day!!!
Thanks so much for this great podcast, Jeremy. Just like all of them!
Thanks so much, Gloria. I’ve also read the book “In the Heart of the Sea” and loved it. I hope you can get to the New Bedford Whaling Museum sometime. Such a historic city and a great museum.