Light Hearted Ep 4, Whitehead Light Station, Nobska Point Light

Published: June 13, 2019, 11:42 a.m.

b"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. \\n\\n\\n\\nGigi Lirot and friend at Whitehead Island\\n\\n\\n\\nHost 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.\\n\\n\\n\\nUSLHS archives\\n\\n\\n\\nIn the history segment, Jeremy and co-host Michelle Jewell Shaw discuss the Tower of Hercules, also known as La Coru\\xf1a Lighthouse, in Spain. It is considered the oldest functioning lighthouse in the world.\\n\\n\\n\\nAs usual, there's also a trivia question with prizes going out to the first two people to answer correctly.\\n\\n\\n\\nCatherine Bumpus"