Therese Langer Woelfel is the author of "Our Guiding Light: Wisdom from the Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter," about her ...

After his retirement as lighthouse keeper on Amelia Island, Tom Sintes' great-grandfather, Thomas Patrick O'Hagan, wrote down some of his memories at the urging of his family. Several excerpts were ...

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 ...

Driving down Cape Cod’s Route 6A through Yarmouthport is worth the jaunt. Homes built in the late 1700s and early 1800s once owned by wealthy sea captains line the scenic road through the mid-Cape ...

More than 2,000 people turned out Monday on the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. Split Rock Lighthouse and the Minnesota Historical Society commemorated the tragedy, which ...

HULL - It's the final chapter for the keeper of Boston Light. When the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, Sally Snowman's 20 years at the helm will be over. She is the last Coast Guard ...

Lighthouse keeper jobs were among the first federal positions – outside clerical work – to open to women, and Michigan had more than any other state, officials said. Today is National Lighthouse Day ...

The nonprofit that oversees Seguin Island Light takes on two volunteers each summer to live in the lighthouse.

EAST TAWAS, MI – The application period to apply for a chance to be a lighthouse keeper for two weeks at one of Michigan’s historic Great Lakes beacons has been extended to Feb. 28. The lighthouse at ...