Well protected and seldom frozen over, the harbor of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, near the mouth of the Piscataqua River, was one of the busiest ports of colonial America. The town of New Castle, once known as Great Island, was long a thriving fishing village, and it was the first capital of the province of New… Continue reading New book: The Light at Fort Point: A History of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse 1771-2021

This new book begins with the plight of Edward Ward, a BBC correspondent, who, with his sound technician, was stranded in the Bishop Rock Lighthouse following a Christmas Day broadcast in 1946. Their departure was delayed for a month by raging storms. After being rescued, he wondered, “How on earth did they manage to build… Continue reading New book: “The Douglass Lighthouse Engineers: How Did They Build Them?”