Wickie from NHJeremy 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… Continue reading BC Lighthouse Keeper: a day in the life of a keeper
This is Episode 86 of a Podcast/YouTube program called Curiosityness, This one is an interview with Spence Wilson, a keeper at Boat Bluff Light Station in British Columbia, Canada. Hosted by Travis DeRose. Wickie from NHJeremy D’Entremont is the author of more than 20 books and hundreds of articles on lighthouses and maritime history. He… Continue reading Modern-Day Lighthouse Keeper: Spence Wilson in BC
This episode of Weekend Magazine follows the families of lighthouse keepers living on two remote Tasmanian islands, Maatsuyker and Tasman. Wickie from NHJeremy 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… Continue reading Weekend Magazine 1966: Isolated life of lighthouse families in Tasmania
Boon Island is a desolate pile of granite several miles off the southern Maine towns of Kittery and York. The present lighthouse, the third built on the island, went into service on New Year’s Day in 1855. It’s the tallest lighthouse in New England at 133 feet tall. Captain William Converse Williams, a native of… Continue reading USLHS Historian Video #7: Keeper William C. Williams at Boon Island, Maine
Kate Walker, who would become one of the most famous lighthouse keepers in the world, was born Katherine Gortler in Germany in 1846. She was appointed keeper at Robbins Reef Lighthouse off the northern tip of Staten Island in New York Harbor after her husband died in 1886. By her own account, Kate saved fifty… Continue reading USLHS Historian Video #3 – Kate Walker at Robbins Reef
Captain Joshua Kenney Card served 35 years as keeper at Portsmouth Harbor Light Station in New Castle, New Hampshire. It was his hometown lighthouse; he was born a short distance away on the banks of the Piscataqua River. He retired at the age of 86 and was believed to be the oldest keeper in the… Continue reading USLHS Historian Video #1 – Joshua Card at Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse, NH
Kate Walker here, keeping the light on Robbins Reef on the edge of New York Harbor. Fog was frequent at Robbins Reef. When I saw it coming, I went down into the deep basement and started the engine that sent out siren blasts from the fog signal at intervals of three seconds. What a huge… Continue reading Kate’s Corner #25
Kate Walker here, tending the light on Robbins Reef. Once a year a lighthouse tender brought six tons of coal to burn in my stoves, a few barrels of oil for the lamps I put in the lantern every night, and a pay envelope. The tenders regularly brought supplies and workmen to make repairs, and… Continue reading KATE’S CORNER #24
Kate Walker here, keeping the light on Robbins Reef. I think I’ve already mentioned that only a few visitors came to Robbins Reef because they had to come by boat, tie up, and climb my ladder. At other lighthouses that were more accessible, visitors came, often in large numbers. Fame for her rescues of drowning… Continue reading KATE’S CORNER #23
Captain Joshua K. Card here. Like many of my contemporary lighthouse keepers in the late 1800s and early 1900s, I was sometimes accused of being a pirate. I can assure you I was nothing of the sort, in spite of my salty appearance. But there was a keeper before me down in Massachusetts who couldn’t… Continue reading The Kaptain’s Kolumn #6
