What’s important to you? While that may seem like a fairly simple question, how it’s answered can have a profound impact on your life. What got us thinking about this topic is that ...

Point Bonita Lighthouse, a jewel in the Bay Area, offers an experience for nature lovers and history nerds. Located in the ...

It is home to an actual intact lighthouse and fog signal that dates back to 1874. The job, however, mainly revolves around managing a five-room inn on the island that serves dinner and breakfast ...

swabbing the decks and turning the fog signal and light on and off. (See Bibliography: DeWire p. 230-233) Coast Guard crews lived at the lighthouse from 1939 until its deactivation in 1987.

Since 1990, the lighthouse has been owned by the town of Cape Elizabeth, which manages the property. The U.S. Coast Guard maintains the light and fog signal. Portland Head Light can be seen from ...

Event includes beacon lighting, bell tolls and reading the names of those drowned In 1975, the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald left Superior, Wis., headed for Detroit with 26,000 tons of taconite when ...

People near a lighthouse on Anglesey have expressed concern over plans to replace a 97-year-old bell with a device described as a "foghorn". The new device at Trwyn Du lighthouse in Penmon was ...