DULUTH — It won’t just be fireworks lighting up the night sky in Two Harbors this Fourth of July. For the first time in six years, the iconic light from the North Shore city’s lighthouse beacon 25 ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Two iconic lighthouses serve as beacons of history along the Charleston, South Carolina coast. Congress passed an act which protects all lighthouses, beacons, and buoys on ...
From atop a jagged ocean cliff, I watched as the sunset softened into an afterglow. Dozens of pelicans glided over the water. Salt spray rose from surly waves. Above, a 30-foot lighthouse began ...
TWO HARBORS — Split Rock Lighthouse will shine its beacon Wednesday night in honor of the late Gordon Lightfoot. It's a rare honor: The beacon is seldom lit, with an annual exception being Nov. 10 to ...
A 7-mile peninsula juts out into Lake Erie from the city of Erie, forming a magnificent natural harbor called Presque Isle Bay. Today, two active lighthouses protect the ships plying Lake Erie. The ...
Curated over the past few months by the Special Collections library public services coordinator Ruba Sadi, the exhibit covers ...
“Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse” By Eric Jay Dolin. Liveright Publishing/W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2016. 560 pages. $29.95. Stolid and steadfast in the face of Indian ...
Point Reyes peninsula, the windiest location on the Pacific Coast and the second-foggiest place on the North American continent, has been the scene of hundreds of shipwrecks dating from the Spanish ...
DULUTH — Split Rock Lighthouse, which annually honors the lost crewmembers of the doomed Edmund Fitzgerald, will this time shine its light for Gordon Lightfoot — who captured the tale of the tragic ...