While the land currently lays fallow, there is a bright spot – the lighthouse – that can be used to tell the story of Lake Erie’s prideful successes as well as its tragic downfalls.

A 1912 article in the Erie Times-News reported the first walk across a frozen Lake Erie. But the first crossing actually seems to have been a century earlier. Daniel Dobbins and Jesse Elliott ...

Perched on a 120-foot cliff over Lake Superior, Split Rock Lighthouse in Two Harbors, Minnesota has attracted tourists since its construction in 1910. It is one of the most visited and popular ...

Lake Erie is the biologically richest of the Great Lakes. One obvious barometer of this biodiversity is waterfowl. I made a trip to the Marblehead Peninsula and its famous Marblehead Lighthouse on ...