Lighthouses, those beacons of inspiration for British authors like Robert Louis Stevenson and Virginia Woolf (and the recent “Aquaman” movies), are no strangers to the Gulf Coast, either.

The first lighthouses were built to foster the growing maritime economy of the colonies and many precede the birth of the nation. This region ranges from the rocky coast of Massachusetts to the ...

The six one-hour programs visit remote locations such as Thomas Point Lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay, the reef lights of Florida’s southern coast, California’s St. George’s Reef Lighthouse ...