Capital Gazette

Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse manager lauded for preservation efforts as rising sea levels threaten to undo work

For nearly a decade, the Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse has been John Potvin’s happy place. When Potvin retired a decade ago, his wife wanted him to stay active. The iconic screw pile lighthouse, ...
The Daily of the University of Washington

UW Special Collections exhibit ‘The Sentinels of the Sea’ lights up Washington’s lighthouse history

Curated over the past few months by the Special Collections library public services coordinator Ruba Sadi, the exhibit covers ...
JSTOR Daily

Between the land and the sea: Refugee experiences of the lighthouse as a real and symbolic border

Borderlands Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE, VOL. 2: Bordering: Creating, contesting and resisting practice (2020), pp. 63-87 (25 pages) In the context of the refugee crisis, seascapes are ...
The Patriot Ledger

Some Scituate residents want $7 million for a new sea wall. The town says it's complicated

SCITUATE − Running his hand along the exposed core of the sea wall, it didn’t take much for George Simmons to come across a loose stone and pluck it out with his forefinger and thumb, as if it were a ...
The Press of Atlantic City

Former resident, group work to save Sea Isle's Ludlam's Beach Lighthouse

SEA ISLE CITY - Genevieve Doris has fond memories of growing up in what used to be the Ludlam's Beach Lighthouse. Now she is part of a group of volunteers working to move, restore and recommission the ...
The Press of Atlantic City

Sea Isle City's historic former lighthouse may be spared demolition

SEA ISLE CITY - The former Ludlam Beach Lighthouse had seemed destined for an obscure demolition in a town that said goodbye to it in 1924.