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The retired river-fleet captain joined the class about a year ago and says he likes making miniature lighthouses because they remind him of his former life on the river.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 29, 2025

All lighthouses, he said, have a great story.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 26, 2025

By the late 1890s, they were making "lamps for lighthouses" and specialised in aluminium.

From BBC Nov. 30, 2024

That image has been the reality for much of the past four months in the Reykjanes Peninsula in southern Iceland, which the country’s tourism website has called a “geological wonder where lighthouses outnumber villages.”

From New York Times Mar. 29, 2024

“Seems to me we have lighthouses right here in the U.S.A.”

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney