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Light Hearted podcast episode 347 - Nautical antiques expert Jim ClaflinJim Claflin, who is based in Massachusetts, is a...
06/21/2026

Light Hearted podcast episode 347 - Nautical antiques expert Jim Claflin

Jim Claflin, who is based in Massachusetts, is a recognized authority on antiques of the U.S. Lighthouse Service, Life-Saving Service, Revenue Cutter Service and early Coast Guard. Jim has specialized in antiques of this kind since the early 1990s. He is the owner of Kenrick A. Claflin & Son Nautical Antiques, which has been in business since 1956.

Jim specializes in out-of-print books, documents, postcards, photographs, maps and charts, engravings, lithographs, uniforms and insignia, tools, lamps, lens apparatus, equipment and apparatus and much more. You can see his latest offerings at lighthouseantiques.net. He’s also the author of ten books on lighthouse and life saving history, and he has served as a volunteer "keeper" at Race Point Light Station on Cape Cod.

Listen here:
https://uslhs.org/podcast/light-hearted-ep-347-nautical-antiques-expert-jim-claflin

Light Hearted Live with poet Knotbrook TaylorJune 25, 2026, at 3:00 p.m eastern timeOn the USLHS YouTube channel and Fac...
06/19/2026

Light Hearted Live with poet Knotbrook Taylor
June 25, 2026, at 3:00 p.m eastern time
On the USLHS YouTube channel and page

Knotbrook Taylor is an award-winning poet living in Scotland. The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses commissioned Taylor to write a book of Scottish lighthouse poems, and it was published in 2010. Knotbrook will read some of his favorites on this live stream.

Here is a quote from the Erbacce website about Knotbrook: “Knotbrook delights in language, it is almost as though he is in love with words and needs to both cherish and almost worship each one.”

Knotbrook Taylor is an award-winning poet living in Scotland. The M...

Light Hearted Lite 44 – Richard Cummins, Irish light keeper, part 2This is part two of a two part interview with Richard...
06/14/2026

Light Hearted Lite 44 – Richard Cummins, Irish light keeper, part 2

This is part two of a two part interview with Richard Cummins, a native of Ireland who worked as a lighthouse keeper in that country for a decade. This is an edited version of a conversation first heard on the podcast in 2020. Richard spent time as a keeper at the very famous Fastnet Rock Lighthouse; at Hook Head, one of the oldest operating lighthouses in the world; and some other well known light stations – more than 20 in all.

In this part of the interview we talk about what it was like to live at isolated lighthouses, and also about Richard’s more recent career as a photographer and an acclaimed builder of ships in bottles.

Photo: Ballycotton Lighthouse, Ireland. Photo by Jeremy D'Entremont.

Listen here:
https://uslhs.org/podcast/light-hearted-lite-44-richard-cummins-irish-light-keeper-part-2

06/12/2026
Cool event if you're going to be in the NYC area on Father's Day!
06/12/2026

Cool event if you're going to be in the NYC area on Father's Day!

View lighthouses on and off shore. Tour Staten Island from the outside looking in with speaker Pat Salmon. Food and drink available for purchase. No outside food and drink allowed. **Leaves from Pier1 (National Lighthouse Museum Site) on the Nautical Empress. Buy Tickets Today!

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