Lighthouses have served humanity as protective sentinels guiding us home for nearly two centuries. Since the mid-1800s, when Santa Cruz served as a bustling port for lime, redwood and other ...

GHENT, N.Y. — Until Saturday morning I hadn’t given a lot of thought to lighthouses. That makes sense because I live nowhere near an ocean. And our property in Columbia County is severely landlocked.

MOUNT PLEASANT — It’s not every day that you’ll find a “working” lighthouse far from water, but that’s exactly what Connie and Larry Perfetto have in their Mount Pleasant backyard. As a guy who likes ...

For many years, a trip to the Dunkirk Historical Lighthouse has been on my bucket list. I finally made the trip from West Seneca to Dunkirk via Routes 20 and 5 and arrived there on a recent Saturday.