Marathon: The Charm of Lighthouses
Marathon: The Charm of Lighthouses
Enjoy these stories from the “Sunday Morning” archives about lighthouses and how they've served as both protectors for sailors, and muses for artists.
  • 00:00 Commercial photographer Susan Brown shoots lighthouses using infrared film (1991)
  • 06:16 The first lighthouses built on the U.S. coast, on Little Brewster Island in Boston Harbor (2006)
  • 08:23 How automation is making lighthouse keepers obsolete (1987)
  • 18:45 The effort to move Block Island's Southeast Lighthouse from the encroaching sea (1994)
  • 26:08 Photographer Chuck Feil takes pictures of lighthouses from the air (1998)
  • 31:12 The history of Cape Hatteras lighthouse in North Carolina (2007)

 

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