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Light Hearted podcast for USLHS The official podcast of the United States Lighthouse Society, hosted by author Jeremy D'Entremont.

Discussions of everything related to lighthouses, featuring interviews with historians, preservationists, and much more.

27/01/2025
08/12/2024

Light Hearted Lite #9 – Maine lighthouse keeper Ernie DeRaps

Ernie DeRaps, a native Mainer, spent several years in the 1950s and ‘60s as a Coast Guard lighthouse keeper at four Maine lighthouses – Monhegan, Fort Point, Heron Neck, and Browns Head. A book written by Ernie and his wife Pauline was published by Foghorn publishing in 2006. Ernie’s half of the book was called Lighthouse Keeping. If you turn the book over and upside down, the other half of the book, by Pauline, or Polly, Fitzgerald DeRaps, was called Light Housekeeping.

Ernie took up painting at the age of 80 and completed portraits of all of Maine’s lighthouses. He and Pauline were married for 64 years and had six children. Pauline passed away in 2015 and Ernie followed her last year, at the age of 95. This is an edited version of an interview that was recorded in February 2019. Also taking part in the discussion is Bob Trapani, Jr., executive director of the American Lighthouse Foundation.

Photo: Ernie DeRaps at Monhegan Lighthouse in 2007. Photo by Jeremy D’Entremont.

Listen here:

https://uslhs.org/podcast/light-hearted-lite-9-maine-lighthouse-keeper-ernie-deraps

20/10/2024

Light Hearted podcast 300th episode special - What is your most memorable lighthouse moment?

To celebrate the 300th episode of this podcast, host Jeremy D’Entremont spoke with almost every person who’s served as a co-host in the past five-plus years. He asked each person a simple question – What has been your most memorable lighthouse experience?

The answers are all over the map, which points out that there are an infinite number of ways that people connect with lighthouses.

Interviewed are Averie Shaughnessy-Comfort, Ben Ridings, Bob Trapani Jr., Cindy Johnson, Emily Straight, Heather and Guin Porter, Jen Lewis, Judianne Point, Michelle Jewell Shaw, Ralph Krugler, Rob Apse, Sarah MacHugh, Shalana Millard, and U.S. Lighthouse Society Executive Director Jeff Gales.

Listen here:
https://uslhs.org/podcast/light-hearted-300th-episode-special-what-your-most-memorable-lighthouse-moment

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