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Light Hearted – Ep 4, Whitehead Light Station, Nobska Point Light
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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Jun 13, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
In this installment of Light Hearted, we meet Ben Swan and Gigi Lirot of Whitehead Light Station, on an 80-acre island in Midcoast Maine. Whitehead offers three-to-five-day programs that focus on a variety of subjects and activities taught by an instructor. Ben Swan is the executive director, and Gigi Lirot is the island manager for Whitehead Light Station.
Gigi Lirot and friend at Whitehead Island
Host Jeremy D'Entremont also interviews Catherine Bumpus, a lifelong sailor who is the executive director of the Friends of Nobska Light in Woods Hole on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The Friends are working to complete restoration and to open a museum on the site. Nobska is one of the iconic lighthouses of Cape Cod.
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In the history segment, Jeremy and co-host Michelle Jewell Shaw discuss the Tower of Hercules, also known as La Coruña Lighthouse, in Spain. It is considered the oldest functioning lighthouse in the world.
As usual, there's also a trivia question with prizes going out to the first two people to answer correctly.
Catherine Bumpus
Gigi Lirot and friend at Whitehead Island
Host Jeremy D'Entremont also interviews Catherine Bumpus, a lifelong sailor who is the executive director of the Friends of Nobska Light in Woods Hole on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The Friends are working to complete restoration and to open a museum on the site. Nobska is one of the iconic lighthouses of Cape Cod.
USLHS archives
In the history segment, Jeremy and co-host Michelle Jewell Shaw discuss the Tower of Hercules, also known as La Coruña Lighthouse, in Spain. It is considered the oldest functioning lighthouse in the world.
As usual, there's also a trivia question with prizes going out to the first two people to answer correctly.
Catherine Bumpus
Released:
Jun 13, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Light Hearted ep 13 – Gary Childs, Race Point, Cape Cod; early lighthouse technology: Race Point Light Station, photo by Jeremy D'Entremont. Jeremy D'Entremont and Michelle Jewell Shaw co-host the third and final episode for Cape Cod week. Jeremy interviews Gary Childs, chairman of the Cape Cod Chapter of the American Lighthouse Foun... by Light Hearted