When Linda DuVal heard a voice floating out from inside a New England lighthouse, she was compelled to wander inside. It wasn’t a ghostly apparition she heard at Mystic Seaport Museum, a living ...
GOING TO TAKE A WHILE TO GET THINGS BACK TO NORMAL. YEAH, WELL, AFTER TWO DECADES OF CARING FOR BOSTON LIGHT, THE U.S. COAST GUARD’S LAST LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER IS NOW RETIRING. DOCTOR SALLY SNOWMAN MADE ...
To love Maine's rugged coastline is to love the lighthouse. According to the Maine Office of Tourism, there are 65 lights in the state. Michigan has nearly double that number, but Maine's are—to state ...
The thin strip of sand juts off the coast of Washington, five miles of sediment curving narrowly around the blue waters of Dungeness Bay. On its lonely tip stands New Dungeness Lighthouse. The ...
For 20 years, Sally Snowman has kept watch over Boston Light, which first illuminated Boston Harbor in 1716. She's the country's last Coast Guard lighthouse keeper and is retiring at the end of 2023.
Michigan’s Mission Point Lighthouse is perched on the tip of Old Mission Peninsula 17 miles north of Traverse City. Laura Kiniry Looking out over the west arm of Grand Traverse Bay, a part of Lake ...
For over a decade, Buddy Grover, 95, has served as a volunteer lighthouse keeper at the third tallest masonry lighthouse in the United States. Grover, who will be 96 in September, does his job for ...
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