Dianna Stampfler has worked for the tourism industry in Michigan for over 25 years and is the executive director of Promote Michigan, so she's seen almost everything the state of Michigan has to offer ...

Ellen Kehoe of Royal Oak has so far visited about 80 lighthouses and climbed to the top of more than 15 of them during sojourns around Michigan’s Great Lakes. That’s more than half of the roughly 130 ...

MARBLEHEAD, Ohio -- Before there was a road, before there was a town – before there was Cedar Point, across the bay – there was a lighthouse, rising from the rock, warning incoming boaters about the ...

Combining an intense interest in both true crime and maritime history, Dianna Higgs Stampfler’s latest book, "Death & Lighthouses of the Great Lakes: A History of Misfortune & Murder" (History Press ...

"Death & Lighthouses on the Great Lakes: A History of Murder and Misfortune," a new book by author Dianna Higgs Stampfler, includes a chapter on the apparent suicide of an assistant light keeper at ...

EMMET COUNTY, MI -- There are two open positions on the most remote, tallest lighthouse on Lake Michigan. An ideal applicant has more than just a great sense of adventure if they’re going to make it ...

LANSING – The book “Mastering the Inland Seas” helps explain the history of Great Lakes lighthouses and navigational aids and the importance of protecting them. Historically, lighthouses, powered by ...

As winter descends on the Great Lakes, the oldest and most historic structures on its shores face a season of peril. Lighthouses were built to withstand brutal ice, waves and wind, but current ...

Lighthouses have been a part of the Great Lakes maritime history ever since the early settlers moved westward and into the Upper Great Lakes region of the United States Their light beams have guided ...