logo
episode-header-image
Mar 2024
15m 55s

The Lighthouse Keeper

SiriusXM and Atlas Obscura
About this episode

We go to Fayerweather Island, off the coast of Connecticut, and get the story of Kate Moore, one of the first recorded woman lighthouse keepers. Over several decades, she poured her heart and soul into a task and defied common expectations of what a keeper should be.

Up next
Yesterday
Nue (Classic)
A Seattle restaurant pushes diners to eat beyond their borders through its embrace of global street foods. 
15m 4s
Jul 10
Exploring the Pan-American Highway with Pati Jinich
The Pan-American Highway is considered the longest road in the world – it stretches nearly 20,000 miles, from Alaska to Argentina. In her new docuseries Pati Jinich Explores PanAmericana, Pati talks with people along the famous route about the different ways we form our identitie ... Show More
24m 15s
Jul 9
How Polar Explorers Entertained Themselves
Early polar explorers faced long nights and dangerous expeditions. To entertain themselves, they wrote and published niche newspapers and periodicals. Atlas Obscura’s community editor Allegra Rosenberg reads an essay exploring this unique polar tradition. Read her full essay here ... Show More
11m 45s
Recommended Episodes
Apr 2021
Lighthouse Keepers of Eilean Mor
On December 26, 1900, a reserve lighthouse keeper arrived for his shift at a remote lighthouse off the coast of Scotland after being delayed by a storm. He found that the three other keepers had vanished from the tiny island without a trace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi ... Show More
35m 30s
May 2022
EP320: An "Ordinary" Cloth With An Extraordinary Story, Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women and Family is at the Heart of this Brewing Icon, The Coors'
On this episode of Our American Stories, Chris Graham of the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia tells the story of one of their objects on display with an extraordinary story we're just now finding out. Kate Moore, author of “Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s ... Show More
38m 15s
Aug 2022
She Heard Her Dead Husbands Voice in the Wind, Saying, "Tend to the Light"
Famously haunted, full of history dark and otherwise, the Saint Augustine Lighthouse is one of many ghostly locations in the oldest city in America. It's also the most visible, her famous black spiral viewable from almost anywhere in town. Reportedly haunted by former keepers, wa ... Show More
38m 51s
Jun 2022
Introducing: The Seduction
It’s a twisted love story that unspools like a film noir, where lust and obsession lead to murder and a classic double cross. This original series from Dateline’s Keith Morrison takes us into the troubled mind of a young man, and the cold heart of a woman who needed her husband d ... Show More
2m 26s
Aug 2022
My granny the slave
Writer Claire Hynes goes on a personal journey to uncover the story of an Antiguan foremother, who is thought to be one of the first women to flee a slave plantation in the Caribbean island of Antigua. Claire grew up learning a 200 year-old story passed down through generations a ... Show More
28m 31s
Dec 2020
Dawn O'Porter
Author, director, and tv presenter Dawn O'Porter joins Jameela to discuss their friendship and how they first met, Dawn's experience having her partner Chris O'Dowd experience a career high while hers was at a low, discovering you are "the girl next door," loving work and loving ... Show More
58 m
Jun 2022
A Younger Man
Heather von Rohr had moved to Los Angeles with aspirations: to make it as a screenwriter and to fall in love, marry and have a child. In need of a day job, she took an entry-level position at the research library of a prestigious film academy.At the library, she met Nick — who wa ... Show More
19m 42s
Sep 2022
Errollyn Wallen
Errollyn Wallen, the Belize born British composer, tells Antonia Quirke about the inspiration behind Lady Super Spy Adventurer, which is receiving its world premiere at the proms this year. And she invites her to the place where the piece was composed, a remote lighthouse on the ... Show More
31m 10s
Oct 2020
Resilience (with Sarah Cooper, Diana Nyad, and Angela Duckworth)
2020 has been a challenging year by any measure. In this episode, comedian Sarah Cooper ( famous for her lip-sync parodies of President Trump); Grit author Angela Duckworth; and long distance swimmer Diana Nyad share with Hillary their stories of summoning strength, motivation, a ... Show More
46m 8s
Jan 2022
Weekend Woman's Hour: Sarah Ransome, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Donna Ward
British woman Sarah Ransome says she wanted to be at Ghislaine Maxwell trial when it started: not to testify but to see justice take its course. Like the four women who gave evidence, she says she's also a victim of Epstein's and Maxwell's. She tells us more about her story and H ... Show More
57m 39s