New England Lighthouses
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Monday, January 17, 2022
Light Hearted 156 - Bob, Ann, and Dominic Trapani, Owls Head Light Station, Maine
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The growing limestone trade in Midcoast Maine led to the establishment of a light station at Owl's Head, at the entrance to Rockland Ha...
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Light Hearted podcast episode 106 – Tim Bailey, light keeper at Halfway Rock, Maine; photo tips with Mike Leonard
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Click here to listen to the podcast Halfway Rock is a windswept, rocky ledge far out in Maine’s Casco Bay, about nine miles east of Portland...
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Monday, October 5, 2020
Light Hearted podcast ep 83 – Tim Pettee and Alex Pettee, Greens Ledge Lighthouse, Connecticut
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Greens Ledge is one of several treacherous formations near Norwalk Harbor in Connecticut. Congress appropriated $60,000 for the establishmen...
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Monday, September 21, 2020
Light Hearted podcast episode 81 – Rob Benchley, Sankaty Head Lighthouse (Nantucket, MA)
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In 1850, a 53-foot brick lighthouse was built on a high bluff on the southeastern shore of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. With its second-...
Monday, July 20, 2020
U.S. Lighthouse Society Podcast "Light Hearted" episode 72 – Sean Todd, Mount Desert Rock, Maine
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More than 20 miles from the nearest port at Mount Desert Island in Maine, low-lying, wave-swept Mount Desert Rock is only about 17 feet abov...
Monday, July 13, 2020
U.S. Lighthouse podcast "Light Hearted" episode 71 – John Anderson, Great Duck Island, Maine
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Great Duck Island is more than 200 acres in size and about nine miles south of the much larger Mount Desert Island. The Lighthouse Board rec...
Monday, July 6, 2020
U.S. Lighthouse Society Podcast "Light Hearted" episode 70 - July 6, 2020
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Pomham Rocks is a tiny island in the Providence River, about 800 feet from the east shore of the Riverside section of East Providence, Rhode...
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