A letter detailing the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers more than 120 years ago is to be exhibited for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ladies bearing light. It's a familiar image — whether it's Florence Nightingale and her lamp, the Statue of Liberty and her torch, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

PINEY POINT — Piney Point Lighthouse Museum & Historic Park will celebrate the summer solstice with extended hours on June 19 ...

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 ...

One of the most historic houses in Madisonville is a little white cottage that sits along the banks of the Tchefuncte River in the shadows of the contemporary mansions that have sprouted up around it.

WHITEHALL, MI -- Michigan’s last female lighthouse keeper not only brought distinction to her hometown, but put her small Lake Michigan town in the national spotlight back in the 1950s. Frances ...

DUNGENESS SPIT, CLALLAM COUNTY — During my 5-mile hike on Dungeness Spit, the longest natural sand spit in the United States, I considered what it might be like to be a lighthouse keeper. Words like ...