When Lee Radzak started to write a book about the job he held for 36 years, his wife, Jane, wasn’t sure how important or necessary their family’s experiences were to the narrative. “To me, we just ...
Mary Korpi had no idea when she answered an ad for docents at the Horton Point Lighthouse Museum in Southold that it would result in her writing a novel about the landmark’s only female lighthouse ...
SANTA CRUZ — Local artist, teacher and author Lynn Guenther has been fascinated by historic Santa Cruz lighthouse keeper Laura Hecox for more than two decades. In addition to keeping the light from ...
Lee and Jane Radzak of Willmar lived for 36 years at the Split Rock Lighthouse Historical Site while Lee worked as the site's manager. Once he retired, Lee wrote a book about the family's experiences ...
The last lighthouse keeper in Capri: “Every evening in a modest apartment on the island’s remote south-western tip, a 64-year-old sailor named Carlo D’Oriano slowly climbs 136 steps up a spiral ...
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 ...
During her first paranormal investigation of a haunted lighthouse, Dianna Stampfler chilled out with a friend in the whitewashed 100-foot tower for hours on a July night as the waters of Lake Michigan ...
Door County's second-oldest lighthouse is featured in a new book that looks at stories and legends of tragic deaths that happened to light keepers on the Great Lakes. "Death & Lighthouses on the Great ...
As Split Rock Lighthouse's first head keeper from 1910 to 1928, Orren "Pete" Young cautioned countless sailors from his cliff-top perch overlooking Lake Superior, 50 miles up the shore from Duluth.