Uses of the word "lighthouse" in Time Magazine
These are stories that either focus on lighthouses or reference them in an interesting way.
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"Aeronautics: Night Mail" | Beacons to be spread across midwest to light the way for night flight | May 5, 1923 | |
"Liberia: Progress" | Lighthouse construction shown as progress in Liberia | March 31, 1924 | |
"Cinema: The New Pictures June 9, 1924" | New movie Women Who Give involves a lighthouse keeper's daughter on Cape Cod | June 9, 1924 | |
"Aeronautics: Night Mail" | Update on night mail flights and beacon system | July 7, 1924 | |
"Arts: Prometheus Unbound" | Plans for a monument to poet Shelley in the form of a lighthouse in Italy | August 4, 1924 | |
"Cinema: The New Pictures January 5, 1925" | New movie starring Rin-Tin-Tin as a lighthouse keeper | January 5, 1925 | |
"Aeronautics: Bermuda and Return" | Mail service to begin on June 1 with lighthouses in place | May 4, 1925 | |
"Congress: The Legislative Week: Feb. 7, 1927" | Brief note about Congressional approval of the Christopher Columbus lighthouse | February 7, 1927 | |
"Aeronautics: In Dayton" | An update on the lighthouse beacons spread across the country for mail routes | August 15, 1927 | |
"Religion: Navy of the Lord" | Aimee Semple McPherson plans for her Four Square churches to have lighthouse towers | August 22, 1927 | |
"Foreign News: Beacon" | Christoper Columbus to be memorialized with remains in lighthouse in Santo Domingo | January 16, 1928 | |
"Aeronautics: Dublin to Labrador" | Lightkeeper at Greenly Island reports on first east-west transatlantic crossing | April 23, 1928 | Greenly Island |
"Aeronautics: Consequences" | More on the Greenly Island report | May 7, 1928 | Greenly Island |
"Miscellany: September 3, 1928" | Panamanian Lighthouse keeper flies his float plane in search of pain medication | September 3, 1928 | |
"Miscellany: December 24, 1928" | Deputy Commissioner of Lighthouses swallows razor blades | December 24, 1928 | |
"Sport: Mushing" | A lighthouse keeper competes in sled dog races | March 4, 1929 | St. Lawrence River |
"Catastrophe: Lake Boats" | A lighthouse in Chicago is slammed by a severe storm on the Great Lakes | November 4, 1929 | |
"The Presidency: Wet Week" | President Hoover rides the lighthouse tender Greenbrier | November 4, 1929 | |
"Science: Micro Radio" | Microwave radio is invented, for commercial use in many places, including lighthouses | April 13, 1931 | |
"National Affairs: Secretary No. 11?" | Congress urged to create a Secretary of Transportation | May 4, 1931 | |
"Art: Columbus Light" | Contract awarded to architect for Columbus memorial lighthouse | November 9, 1931 | |
"National Affairs: Speech No. 3" | A Roosevelt-Hoover debate includes a threat to lighthouses | October 31, 1932 | |
"The Press: Professional Etiquet (Cont'd)" | Brief mention of a Long Island lighthouses in a story about journalism | February 20, 1933 | |
"Education: June 19, 1933" | George Putnam is listed as receiving an honorary degree | June 19, 1933 | |
"The Presidency: Signings" | Lighthouses may bemoved to Secretary of Commerce | June 26, 1933 | |
"Letters: September 11, 1933" | Shark caught by Time reader named Hitler and brought to local lighthouse | September 11, 1933 | |
"Recovery: PWA Report" | Lighthouse projects listed in report on PWA spending | April 30, 1934 | |
"National Affairs: Mudd's Monument" | Roosevelt declares Dry Tortugas a National Monument; lighthouse crew only occupants | February 4, 1935 | |
"Science: Ship-finder" | Signal Corps tests ship-finding equipment from the twin lights | August 12, 1935 | Navesink |
"Transport: Hatteras Humbled" | Cape Hatteras Lighthouse abandoned due to encroaching seas | April 6, 1936 | Cape Hatteras |
"Science: Ghost-Hunters" | Chance Brothers approached to build ray that can reach Mars | October 5, 1936 | |
"Milestones, October 19, 1936" | Roosevelt appoints fundraisers for Columbus memorial lighthouse | October 19, 1936 | |
"National Affairs: Lighthouses for Sale" | Replaced by automated lights, lighthouses become expendable | December 28, 1936 | Cedar Island, Absecon |
"Miscellany, June 14, 1937" | Man bids 1 cent for lighthouse | June 14, 1937 | Ned's Point |
"Religion: Truro's Hunkin" | British holy man confirms four people at an offshore lighthouse | February 14, 1938 | |
"Catastrophe: Abyss from the Indies" | Hurricane of 1938 slams New York and New England | October 3, 1938 | Whale Rock, Prudence Island |
"Transport: Long Skip" | A Coast Guard rescue off Point Reyes, California | December 12, 1938 | Point Reyes |
"Radio: For Whales Only" | Bureau of Lighthouses to use radio beacons in Boston Harbor | February 6, 1939 | |
"National Affairs: Reorganization II" | Bureau of Lighthouses merged with Coast Guard in Treasury | May 22, 1939 | |
"Art: Wild Goose Chaser" | The son of explorer Robert Scott lives in an old British lighthouse | July 3, 1939 | |
"World War: Submarine v. Blockade" | Baltic Sea lightkeeper saves two lives | October 2, 1939 | |
"World War: General Dike" | The Netherlands prepares for war, including dimming lighthouses and lightships | November 20, 1939 | |
"At Sea: Raiders" | South African lighthouses dimmed as port security against German sea raiders | December 4, 1939 | |
"Northern Threat: Spring Offensive" | Norway orders lighthouses dimmed as Germans attack | April 15, 1940 | |
"Music: Business in Mystic" | Lighthouse keeper is among art colonists of Mystic, Connecticut | August 12, 1940 | |
"The Theatre: London Hit" | American play about life at a Lake Michigan lighthouse fares better in London than U.S. | August 12, 1940 | |
"Cuba: Genteel Revolution" | Cuban lighthouses fall under military control in a 1930s coup | February 17, 1941 | |
"World War: Mine Attacks Lighthouse" | A mine explodes at Tuskar Light, killing a keeper | December 15, 1941 | Tuskar |
"The Ameicas: Incident at St. Pierre" | Admiral Muselier of St. Pierre and Miquelon threatens to dim lighthouses | January 5, 1942 | |
"Letters: January 5, 1942" | Lighthouse Keeper sends a letter and $5 to United China Relief | January 5, 1942 | |
"Enemy Aliens: Asps on the Hearth" | Lighthouses listed among the 88 coastal places from which Japanese will be interned | February 9, 1942 | |
"Patterns" | Sandy Hook Light goes dim for the second time in 178 years | August 10, 1942 | |
"Science: Electronics in Control" | Electron tubes are the wave of the future, even for lighthouses | February 8, 1943 | |
"World Battlefronts: Battle of Russia: The Light Goes Out" | A lighthouse in Russia is a central locale for a battle | May 22, 1944 | Khersonese |
"The New Pictures, Sep. 25, 1944" | Thunder Rock, the play about a lighthouse on Lake Michigan, is made into a movie | September 25, 1944 | |
"Reconverter" | War is over, troops transitioning home | July 9, 1945 | Portland Head |
"Massachusetts: Yo-ho-ho and a Radar Set" | The story of the King of Calf Island in Boston Harbor | October 15, 1945 | Narrows Light |
"Canada: Nova Scotia: Lighthouse Saga" | Canadian lighthouse keeper disappears | February 18, 1946 | Nichol Island |
"Miscellany, Feb. 3, 1947" | A BBC announcer goes to a lighthouse and gets stuck for 27 days | February 3, 1947 | Bishop Rock |
"Disaster: Ill-Starred" | TWA Consetllation crashes near Brandywine Lighthouse | May 12, 1947 | Brandywine |
"Canada: Nova Scotia: No Jukebox" | Life around Peggy's Lighthouse, Nova Scotia | June 2, 1947 | Peggy's Cove |
"Miscellany, Feb. 23, 1948" | Fanny Salter retires from Turkey Point Lighthouse | February 23, 1948 | Turkey Point, MD |
"Sport: By the Back Door" | Sailors find their way from Newport to Bermuda and sight a lighthouse at the end | July 5, 1948 | Brenton Reef Lightship, Gibbs Hill |
"Books: Go In& Sink" | Author of a book about life on a U-boat talks about shelling lighthouses | February 23, 1953 | |
"Spain: The Flower of Spring" | Disaster off Santona's lighthouse | March 15, 1954 | Santona, Spain |
"Religion: The Flying Angels" | A British holy man starts a movement by visiting offshore folks cut off from religion | June 11, 1956 | |
"Music: Pop Records" | New album "Music for Lighthousekeeping" is released | June 3, 1957 | |
"Morocco: Ifni & After" | Lighthouse keeper and family slayed in war in Morocco | December 16, 1957 | Cape Bojador |
"Medicine: From the Lighthouse" | Fresnel technology is used to help the blind | October 27, 1958 | |
"Science: Queer Vipers" | Brazil recalls lighthouse keepers in the face of fatal snake attacks | October 19, 1959 | Queimada Grande, Brazil |
"Art: Collector's Passion" | The Shelburne Museum in Vermont buys the Colchester Reef Lighthouse | August 15, 1960 | Colchester Reef |
"Oregon: Raider's Return" | A Japanese sub captain returns to the site he bombed in World War II | May 25, 1962 | Cape Blanco |
"Foreign Relations: Shots & a Shrimp Boat" | Shrimpers off the Florida coast start an air battle near Elbow Key | March 1, 1963 | Elbow Key, Bahamas |
"Cuba: Safety in the Stars" | Cubans commandeer a lighthouse tender to flee the country | September 27, 1963 | Lighthouse Tender H11 |
"Oceanology: Up from Success" | Jacques Cousteau commands ConShelf III from a West Coast lighthouse | October 22, 1965 | |
"Australia: Filling in the Ghastly Blank" | Australia's first census includes sending recorders to offshore lighthouses with questionnaires | July 22, 1966 | Neptune and Thistle Islands |
"Disasters: Essa v. Beulah" | Hurricane Beulah strikes the Gulf Coast; at Port Isabel, only the lighthouse and a bank stand | September 29, 1967 | Port Isabel, TX |
"Books: A Very Correct Sailor" | A new book on Commodore Matthew Perry includes his work on lighthouses | November 10, 1967 | |
"The Press" Hoaxer of the Hamptons" | The story of Dan Rattiner, Hamptons journalist who, among other things, fought to save Montauk Lighthouse | August 4, 1975 | Montauk |
"Modern Living: Little Apple" | The story of Roosevelt Island, including a mention of the local lighthouse | May 24, 1976 | Blackwell Island |
"Cinema: Scaly Tale" | A review of the new movie Pete's Dragon starring Mickey Rooney as a lighthouse keeper | December 5, 1977 | |
"Nation: Blizzard of the Century" | Three lighthouses are lost in New England's "Blizzard of '78" | February 20, 1978 | |
"Nation: The Puzzling Paisley Case" | Mystery surrounds the death of a CIA agent who loved cruising | January 22, 1979 | Hooper's Point |
"Land Sale of the Century" | Lighthouses included in sale of federal lands | August 23, 1982 | |
"Art: Andrew Wyeth's Stunning Secret" | At home with Andrew Wyeth on Southern Island, Maine | August 18, 1986 | Tenant's Harbor |
"Environment: Shrinking Shores" | Coastal erosion is taking its toll | August 10, 1987 | Cape Hatteras |
"Environment: Season of Death" | North Sea blight is killing seals; Anholt, Denmark, lighthouse keeper picks up a dozen a day | June 13, 1988 | Anholt |
"North Carolina: Backing Up From the Sea" | Moving Cape Hatteras Light | July 3, 1989 | Cape Hatteras |
"The Trouble with Columbus" | Christopher Columbus Lighthouse is finished | October 7, 1991 | |
"Campaign Quiz" | A short list of Secret Service Code Names for presidential candidates | March 23, 1992 | |
"A Guide to the Congressional Races: Michigan" | One candidate presents his past as a lighthouse restorer as proof of his integrity | November 4, 1996 | Mackinac Island |
"A Small-town Sampler" | Hannibal, Missouri, is known for its famed author and the lighthouse standing in his memory | December 8, 1997 | Mark Twain |
"No Safe Harbor" | Swissair 111 goes down off Nova Scotia, near Peggy's Cove | September 14, 1998 | Peggy's Cove |
"People: September 21, 1998" | Pierre Cardin plans to build a memorial Pharos of Alexandria | September 21, 1988 | |
"Sylvia Earle: Call of the Sea" | Biologist Sylvia Earle loves life from Point Sur | October 5, 1998 | Point Sur |
"Travel: Nice Places to Visit, Great Places to Live" | Some nice places to visit include Sequim, Washington, partly because of New Dungeness Lighthouse | May 1, 2000 | New Dungeness |
"Travel: A Treetop Fantasy" | Visit Point Reyes and see the lighthouse | October 9, 2000 | Point Reyes |
"Travel Advisory" | Diving around the remains of the Pharos of Alexandria | August 20, 2001 | Pharos |
"Roughing It, Gently" | Traveling on the cheap, Point Montara can be a good stop | August 26, 2002 | Point Montara |
"Fire From the Mountain" | Simon Winchester's new book on Krakatoa recalls how a lighthouse keeper saw the eruption | May 12, 2003 | Fourth Point |
"Britain's Treasured Isles" | Lighthouses are among the attractions in the Isles of Scilly | June 19, 2005 | |
"Workplace: Paradise" | Volunteering at Seguin Island Lighthouse | August 16, 2005 | Seguin Island |
"Rocky Relations" | Korea and Japn dispute ownership of two small islands, which include a South Korean lighthouse | May 1, 2006 | |
"Greenland Wants to Rule Itself - and Its Resources" | Lighthouses are on the list of self-rule controls Greenlanders want | November 26, 2008 | |
"Recession Threatens the Original Surf City" | Recession as seen through the surfing museum in Santa Cruz, CA | January 19, 2009 | Mark Abbott Memorial |
"A Brief History of the Statue of Liberty" | The Statue of Liberty reopens for the first time since September 11, 2001 | March 12, 2009 | Statue of Liberty |
"Oceanside Luxury Made Affordable (Think Mexico)" | Recession proof seaside travel includes Rockland, Maine | May 25, 2009 | |
"50 Authentic American Experiences: Rhode Island" | Be a keeper at Rose Island Lighthouse for a week | July 13, 2009 | Rose Island |
"Alternative Dwellings" | Lighthouses make the list of Unusual Hotels of the World | July 28, 2009 | |
"Detroit: A Kid's Paradise" | Belle Isle Light helps make Detroit friendly for kids | February 22, 2010 | Belle Isle |
"Five Reasons to Visit the Isle of Wight" | A lighthouse is among the reasons to visit the Isle of Wight | September 16, 2010 | |
"Goodbye Summer: Off-Peak Crete" | Visit Crete and see Chania's ancient Faros | February 3, 2011 | Chania |
"Five Reasons to Visit Ilocos Norte" | Visit Ilocos Norte in the Phillipines and see an old lighthouse | February 17, 2011 | Cape Bojeador |
"Nonviolent New Englanders: The Most Peaceful States in America" | Looking for peace in the United States? Move to Maine | April 14, 2011 | Portland Head (photo) |
"The Mild West: The Beauty of Remotest Brittany" | Climb the steps of a lighthouse in Brittany to get the whole picture | December 8, 2011 | Le Stiff |
"Light Sleepers" | Lighthouses as BnB's | May 7, 2012 | |
"Thomas Kinkade: 'Painter of Light' Died of Valium and Alcohol Overdose" | Thomas Kinkade, painter of light, dies | May 8, 2012 | |
"Five Reasons to Visit Perth" | Visit the Margaret River wine region of Perth and see historic lighthouses | May 9, 2012 | |
"One Lighthouse, Free to Good Caretaker" | Wisconsin Point Lighthouse for sale | May 23, 2013 | Wisconsin Point |
"Australia's Wildfife Season Has Started, and it Isn't Even Summer Yet" | Barrenjoey Lighthouse is saved from wildfire | October 1, 2013 | Barrenjoey |
"7 Great American Vacation Spots (That Won't Bust Your Budget)" | Long Beach Island and Barnegat Light make the list of where to go in America | July 3, 2014 | Barnegat |
"The Forgotten World War II Story of Europe's Last Battle" | A lighthouse in the West Friesian Islands is the last European battleground of World War II | July 8, 2015 | Tekel |
"These Are America's Best Road Trips" | US 1 in Florida is touted as a great drive, partially because of the lighthouses | August 4, 2015 | |
"The Best End-of-Summer Beach Bargains" | Montauk, NY, and Sea Island, GA, are listed as a great end-of-summer destinations for the dollar | August 28, 2015 | Montauk (photo), St. Simons |