This premiere episode of the new U.S. Lighthouse Society podcast, with host Jeremy D’Entremont and co-host Cindy Johnson, was recorded at the Exeter Inn in Exeter, New Hampshire. In the first episode, Jeremy and Cindy talk about the origins of navigation in early society, and there’s a trivia question with prizes to be sent to… Continue reading Light Hearted – Episode 1, Sophie Blackall
New USLHS podcast “Light Hearted” premieres on Monday, June 3! Check this space this coming Monday, June 3, for the premiere of the new U.S. Lighthouse Society podcast Light Hearted. In the first installment, host Jeremy D’Entremont interviews Sophie Blackall, author/illustrator of the Caldecott Medal winning children’s book Hello Lighthouse. Jeremy and co-host Cindy Johnson… Continue reading Lighthouse News of the Week
California Department of Parks and Recreation requests $12.2 million for Pigeon Point Light Station A budget request for the California Department of Parks and Recreation was recently submitted to the State Legislature. Included in the request is $12.2 million for stabilization and rehabilitation of Pigeon Point Light Station near Pescadero. The tower has been closed… Continue reading Lighthouse News of the Week
Thomas Patrick O’Hagan, Mosquito-Ponce Inlet Lighthouse’s second principal keeper (1893-1905), and principal keeper at Amelia Island Lighthouse (1905-1925), was stationed at many other U.S. Light House Service stations during his fifty year career. Two of his sons became keepers, and a third worked as a mate on USLHS tenders. O’Hagan has some fascinating stories to… Continue reading Journals of Florida’s Keeper Thomas Patrick O’Hagan, Part 3
Restoration of Burnt Coat Harbor Lighthouse on Swans Island, Maine, underway Restoration work on Burnt Coat Harbor Lighthouse began in April, thanks to the Friends of the Swans Island Lighthouse. Tito Masonry LLC of Portland is doing the work, which started in mid-April and is expected to cost about $172,000. The restoration of the masonry… Continue reading Lighthouse News of the Week
Captain Joshua Card here at Station Portsmouth Harbor. Today I want to tell you about Keeper James Burke, a native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. James Burke began his career as a keeper, as I did some years earlier, at remote Boon Island, a jumbled pile of rocks some nine miles off the southern Maine coast.… Continue reading The Kaptain’s Kolumn #14
Ten of British Columbia’s Light Stations upgrading to renewable power Twenty-seven of the remote light stations on the coast of British Columbia, Canada, are still staffed by resident keepers. The stations have been powered by diesel generators up to now, but ten of the stations will soon be upgraded to solar and/or wind sources. The… Continue reading Lighthouse News of the Week
Maine’s Seguin Lighthouse goes dark Seguin Light Station, on a 64-acre island off the mouth of the Kennebec River near Popham Beach in Maine, is home to the only active first-order Fresnel lens in northern New England. Recently, shortly before volunteers of the Friends of Seguin Island were due to start making preparations for the… Continue reading Lighthouse News of the Week
New caretakers for East Brother Island Light Station (CA) After a search that lasted for the past couple of months and drew a thousand applicants, the nonprofit that runs the East Brother Light Station bed and breakfast in California’s San Francisco Bay has hired a couple to serve as the new caretakers: Tyler Waterson and… Continue reading Lighthouse News of the Week
Captain Joshua Kenney Card here, up at Portsmouth Harbor Light Station in my home town of New Castle, New Hampshire. The cherry trees in Portsmouth are blooming and spring is really here at last. Soon the summer people will be stopping by and I’ll be taking them up in the tower. The lonely months of… Continue reading The Kaptain’s Kolumn #13
