Light Hearted Live #13 audio edition – Author Lenore Skomal on lighthouse heroine Ida Lewis

Podcast: Light Hearted · Jeremy D'Entremont, U.S. Lighthouse Society

Opublikowano: 2026-09-27

This is the audio from a live stream on September 16, 2026. The guest is Lenore Skomal, author of an acclaimed book about the celebrated lighthouse heroine Ida Lewis. Lenore Skomal Ida Lewis began tending Lime Rock Light in Newport, Rhode Island, at the age of fifteen after her father, the keeper of the light, was disabled by a stroke. Ida was officially appointed to the job in 1879, and she remained at Lime Rock until her death in 1911. Ida saved at least 18 lives during her light keeping career, and she gained national prominence after one of her rescues in 1869.<...