If you’re like me, you don’t spend all that much time thinking about lighthouses. But that might simply be a deficiency in me (and you). For some people, on the other hand, lighthouses and lighthouse history are incredibly important topics. And for that cohort, Lighthouse Digest is a veritable gold mine.
Lighthouse Digest describes itself as a magazine “devoted to preserving and sharing the history of lighthouses and those keepers who served at these historic structures.” The publications offers readers news, history and stories of lighthouses, and it is also committed to various lighthouse preservation projects.
The publication was founded in 1992 and counts subscribers in all 50 states (it also has readers in more than a dozen other countries).
Articles from recent issues include:
- Lighthouse Keeper John Kerr’s Menagerie
- Feds Say Five Spindly Legged Lights To Be Excess Property!
- Lighthouse Heroine Inspires Moving Artwork
- Seven Men Escape Death Under Lighthouse
- Mothballing a Lighthouse
- Acetylene Tanks Explode Destroying Lighthouse
- Five Pensacola Lighthouse Keepers Honored
- Baileys Harbor Range Lights Turn 150
- Former Lighthouse Keeper Sentenced to Death
In addition to publishing a biweekly magazine, Lighthouse Digest publisher Foghorn Publishing has published a series of books on lighthouses. LighthouseDigest.com also maintains a database with information about more than 8,000 lighthouses around the world.
In addition to subscribing in print or reading online, you can stay up to date with all your lighthouse news by liking Lighthouse Digest on Facebook. If you’re about more than reading, you can purchases all sorts of lighthouse goodies in the online shop, from postcards and clocks to rugs and hoodies.
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