Light Hearted

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Light Hearted Lite #15 - Shona Riddell, author of "Guiding Lights," and the USLHS's upcoming virtual event
February 16, 2025

Pencarrow Lighthouse (1859) was the first permanent lighthouse in New Zealand. Mary Jane Bennett - the first official lighthouse keeper in New Zealand, and the only woman to ever hold the role - is pr

Light Hearted ep 308: Alex Dias, Pomham Rocks, Rhode Island
February 09, 2025

Pomham Rocks Lighthouse, photo by Gary Point Pomham Rocks Lighthouse is at the northern end of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, offshore from the community of Riverside. Alex Dias joined the Frien

Light Hearted Lite #14 – Jim Pope, keeper at Whaleback, Maine
February 02, 2025

This is a re-edited version of an interview that was first heard on "Light Hearted" in 2019. Jim Pope was a keeper at rugged Whaleback Lighthouse in Maine from 1960 to 62, and the light was automate

Light Hearted ep 307 – Peter Halil, UK lighthouse keeper, part 2 of 2
January 26, 2025

Peter Halil and his wife, Isla This is part two of a two-part interview. Peter Halil was a lighthouse keeper in the UK from 1974 to 1997, and he was among the last traditional lighthouse keepers th

Light Hearted ep 307 – Peter Halil, UK lighthouse keeper, part 2 of 2
January 26, 2025

Peter Halil and hjis wife, Isla This is part two of a two-part interview. Peter Halil was a lighthouse keeper in the UK from 1974 to 1997, and he was among the last traditional lighthouse keepers t

Light Hearted Lite #13 – Rob Benchley, Sankaty Head (Nantucket, MA)
January 19, 2025

Rob Benchley at Sankaty Head Lighthouse, photo by Jeremy DEntremont This is re-edited version of an interview with Rob Benchley first heard in episode 81 in September 2020. Rob is the volunteer mo

Light Hearted ep 306 – UK lighthouse keeper and chronicler Peter Halil; “Be a Lighthouse”
January 12, 2025

Peter Halil There are two segments in this episode. The first guest, Peter Halil, was a lighthouse keeper in the UK from 1974 to 1997. He was among the country's final traditional lighthouse keeper

Light Hearted Lite #12 – Karen Zacharuk, keeper at Cape Beale, BC
January 05, 2025

With the world's longest coastline and more lakes than the rest of the world combined, Canada is also home to more than 750 lighthouses. In spite of automation, there continue to be 49 staffed lightho

Light Hearted ep 305 – Jake Heffernan, Kewaunee Pierhead Lighthouse, Wisconsin
December 29, 2024

In 1836, rumors of gold in a muddy river on the west shore of Lake Michigan near modern day Green Bay, Wisconsin, spurred the creation of what would become the City of Kewaunee. The arrival of a railr

Light Hearted Lite #11 – Dolly Bicknell’s memories of the Flying Santa to the lighthouses
December 22, 2024

Edward Rowe Snow, his daughter Dolly, and his wife Anna-Myrle prepare for a Flying Santa flight in 1964. (Friends of Flying Santa) The Flying Santa tradition traces its origins to a pioneering pilo