After his retirement as lighthouse keeper on Amelia Island, Tom Sintes' great-grandfather, Thomas Patrick O'Hagan, wrote down some of his memories at the urging of his family. Several excerpts were ...

The Lansing Poetry Club hosted a one-woman show featuring women lighthouse keepers on the Great Lakes at the University ...

On an exceptionally calm fall morning, Scott Dombrowski walked down an old dock toward a small dinghy. He looked out over the waters of Cape Porpoise, Maine, and commented on how still the water was ...

A history of the original Currituck Beach Lighthouse keepers is being written ahead of the historic landmark's 150th anniversary COROLLA, N.C. — The story of the Currituck Beach Lighthouse goes back ...

Collins Howes, a local fisherman who lost his leg in an accident, was appointed the keeper of the Chatham Twin Lights in 1841.

Very few people know what it was like to live and work in a lighthouse, stationed in the outermost reaches of the country, tasked with keeping a lifesaving navigational aid alight. However, the hardy ...

For the last 14 years, Matt Rosenberg has taken an unusual mode of transportation to his side gig after wrapping up his day job as a high school English teacher in York, Maine: A paddleboat. Rosenberg ...

A Visit to the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum On a sunlit morning in early February 2024, my wife and I took a tour of the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum in St. Augustine, ...