In Gates’s delightful sixth Lighthouse Library mystery (after Something Read, Something Dead), workmen who are excavating around the foundations of the lighthouse in Nags Head, N.C., discover a tin ...

Gates’s heartwarming eighth Lighthouse Library mystery (after 2020’s A Death Long Overdue) finds the friends and family of librarian Lucy Richardson celebrating her long-awaited engagement to Connor ...

Doreen Wildman never anticipated the strain the Internet and a changing population would put on the library she has led for 23 years. “When the current library was built in 1987,” she said, “we went ...

It's a familiar image — whether it's Florence Nightingale and her lamp, the Statue of Liberty and her torch, or the damsel with the beacon at the start of every Columbia Picture. When our culture ...

Today, most U.S. lighthouses are automated, ending the era of female lighthouse keepers and the demanding yet romantic nature of the job. Ida Lewis, a lighthouse keeper in Rhode Island, won national ...