A new book and experts warn Great Lakes lighthouses are vital yet underfunded as federal support wanes; Michigan ramps up ...

NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN - When your lights aren’t working and you are having technical difficulties, you punch in the number of your trusty tech guide or repair person. But when it happens to a pair of ...

Sheboygan's lighthouse has been a beacon for sailors since 1839. It has been run by the federal government since 1939 and ...

EMMET COUNTY, MI -- There are two open positions on the most remote, tallest lighthouse on Lake Michigan. An ideal applicant has more than just a great sense of adventure if they’re going to make it ...

The peninsula-wide celebration offered wide-ranging fun including tours of the Marblehead Lighthouse and the Wolcott Keeper’s ...

Combining an intense interest in both true crime and maritime history, Dianna Higgs Stampfler’s latest book, "Death & Lighthouses of the Great Lakes: A History of Misfortune & Murder" (History Press ...

Dianna Stampfler has worked for the tourism industry in Michigan for over 25 years and is the executive director of Promote Michigan, so she's seen almost everything the state of Michigan has to offer ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The National Museum of the Great Lakes is celebrating Women's History Month a week early. A new virtual lecture series called, 'Ladies of the Light: Michigan Women in the U.S.

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MARBLEHEAD, Ohio -- Before there was a road, before there was a town – before there was Cedar Point, across the bay – there was a lighthouse, rising from the rock, warning incoming boaters about the ...

A historic lighthouse on Lake Erie that sold at auction will be preserved. That's the promise made by the local magnates in Ohio who bought it. The Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse has been ...

Lighthouses have been a part of the Great Lakes maritime history ever since the early settlers moved westward and into the Upper Great Lakes region of the United States Their light beams have guided ...