The St. George Reef Lighthouse is working again after being dark for more than a year. The lighthouse, on a rock off the northern coast of California, is accessible only by helicopter in good weather. Private funding supported several trips for local preservationists. www.latimes.com/california/n...
Longships, Cornwall: the experience of spending a stormy night in a lighthouse
“it’s like having a ghost banging on your blinds from the outside all night long.”
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Light Hearted ep 337 – Two special lighthouse cruises on the Maine coast
Bar Harbor Whale Watch and the schooner Mary Day both offer amazing cruises for lighthouse lovers.
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The Lighthouse Directory's revised page for Western New York features the Sodus Bay Lighthouse at Sodus Point on Lake Ontario east of Rochester. www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/n...
Locally filmed movie featuring Lorain West Breakwater lighthouse, OH, is ranking high on Amazon charts.
“Beneath the Light,” a supernatural thriller featuring Lorain's most famous icon, is drawing a lot of attention.
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20 seconds of calm at Curtis Island Lighthouse by drone
Our guest is Jen Lewis, Fundraising and Outreach Manager for the Point Cabrillo Light Station in northern California.
In 1908 a combined lighthouse and fog signal building was built of local redwood and Douglas fir.
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Iceland's most iconic coastal lighthouses: A list
Iceland's coastal lighthouses are a unique blend of history, architecture, and stunning landscapes.
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This fall the Hudson Athens Lighthouse NY Preservation Society (HALPS) completed an $800,000 restoration of the lighthouse's slate and copper roof. HALPS produced a seven-minute video featuring the restoration team and the work involved in the process.
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Light Hearted Lite 37 - Erik Nissen Johansen, Pater Noster, Sweden
A conversation with the creator of an award-winning hotel at an incredible island lighthouse in Sweden.
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Light Hearted episode 334 – Marty O’Gara and John Ollila, Fairport Harbor, OH
A beautiful and historic lighthouse and museum on Lake Erie - and a ghost cat
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Tawas Point, MI, known as 'Cape Cod of the Midwest' starts lantern-lit trail series
Lake Huron's Tawas Point has been aglow since 1853 when schooners carried lumber from Detroit to Buffalo, New York.
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The 1902 Greens Ledge #Lighthouse in #Connecticut, now privately owned, has been hosting educational programming since 2024. With restoration said to be 95% complete, the owner, Tim Pettee, hopes to open the lighthouse for public tours as well.
#NewEngland
Description of Alexandria's Lighthouse found in Ancient Chinese Writings
In the 13th century, a Chinese official described the city of Alexandria in his extensive work on geography.
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The Lighthouse Directory's revised page for Western Finnmark in the North Cape area of northern Norway features the 1949 Fruholmen Lighthouse, the northernmost European lighthouse. It replaced an 1866 lighthouse destroyed in World War II. www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/n...
Light Hearted episode 333 – Valeria Araúz Molina, Île Vierge, France
Ile Vierge is a 15-acre island off the northwest coast of Brittany in northwest France. The lighthouse is built of granite blocks, stands 271 feet tall, with nearly 400 steps inside.
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Property linked to 125-year-old Flannan Isles Lighthouse, Scotland, mystery to be restored
A community group is to restore a historic building linked to the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers 125 years ago.
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Utsira lighthouse, Norway, stands twin above North Sea waves where 207 souls live offshore
The ferry cuts through North Sea swells as Utsira's twin lighthouse towers emerge from morning mist.
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Flying Santa on You Tube now!
Helicopters visit Coast Guard stations
throughout the Northeast, with more than 1000 children of Coast Guard families receiving gifts from Santa. It’s a perfect way to express appreciation to an under-appreciated branch of our military.
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A red house with a steeply pitched grey roof and an integrated lighthouse tower stands on a large grey stone foundation at the end of an ice-covered jetty and an iron catwalk protruding into the waters of a lake. Waves are breaking against the jetty, and the side of the house facing the lake is encased in ice.
An early winter storm has blown out two glass panels from the lantern at the outer south pier #lighthouse in Grand Haven, #Michigan.
(📸 by Sandysphotos2009, 2010, shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license)
#GreatLakes #LakeMichigan
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Meet Tim Wittenbecher, founder of the company Floatel, which restores endangered maritime properties -- including three #lighthouses in Spain and, soon, Italy -- and converts them into hotels.
USLHS Lighthouse Tour of England
Apr 24, 2026 to May 09, 2026
All the details - including 25 lighthouses:
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Photo: St Catherine’s Oratory Medieval lighthouse, Isle of Wight
A thorough restoration of the Saugerties Lighthouse on the Hudson River, New York, has been completed and the lighthouse will welcome visitors for tours and stays at a two-bedroom B&B in 2026. hudsonvalleyone.com/2025/11/26/s...
Mission Point Lighthouse MI “moonscape”
Instead of seeing the waves of Grand Traverse Bay lapping at the shoreline near the bottom of the lighthouse's stairs, you'll have to walk quite a way to get your shoes wet.
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U.S. Lighthouse Society's
Lighthouse Preservation Grants
Letters of interest are due by December 10!
Here’s info on how to apply:
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Absecon Lighthouse, the iconic beacon on the New Jersey Shore was decommissioned but is now being upgraded with cutting-edge technology designed to protect critically endangered marine animals.
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The latest episode of the US #Lighthouse Society's podcast is an interview (recorded in 2020) with Italian author and lighthouse historian Annamaria Mariotti.
#MaritimeHistory #booksky
Joseph Smith as Augustin Fresnel at Twin Lights
Joseph Smith as Augustin Fresnel at Sea Girt Lighthouse
Joseph Smith as Augustin Fresnel at Barnegat Light Museum
I and Monsieur Augustin Fresnel had a wonderful time last month participating in the New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge Weekend! Here are some memories of Day 1 at Twin Lights, Sea Girt Lighthouse & Barnegat Light Museum.
#lighthouses #njlighthouses #maritimehistory #lighthousehistory #NJHistory
