Lighting the Way Home:
Stories of Lighthouses and Their Keepers

Lighthouses have been in existence for thousands of years, some of them marking harbors, others marking hazards. Many people have recognized the importance of lighthouses.

In fact, the nineth act of Congress that President George Washington signed into law enabled the Federal Government to take responsibility for building and operating the nation's lighthouses.

In the five stories on this CD, Kate Dudding brings to life some lighthouses and the people who worked in them.

1. Finding Our Way Home: the story of Augustin Fresnel and his lenses which revolutionized lighthouses in the early 1800s.

2. The Lighthouse Speaks: the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse tells its own story.

3. Elizabeth Whitney Williams: the story of one of America’s women lighthouse keepers, who was from the state with the most lighthouses.

4. The Lighthouses on Minot’s Ledge: the stories of the two lighthouses marking an underwater stone mountain in the southern shipping lane leading to Boston Harbor.

5. The Statue: the story of the construction of the world’s tallest statue, which was a lighthouse for the first 10 years of its life.

Suitable for adults as well as children 12 and older.

Click here for some lighthouse resources.

An Award-winning CD

This CD is a Parents' Choice Approved Award Winner of 2007, one of six storytelling CDs to get an award this year. Click hear to read the Parents' Choice review.

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Acknowledgments
Special thanks for their support to: Jerry Dudding, Elizabeth Ellis, Gert Johnson, Jeannine Laverty, Story Circle of the Capital District (NY), and the staff at the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library.

Dedicated to my parents Kenneth and Lucile Eike, who, although they never heard me tell from a stage, brought me up with enough confidence to launch myself into the world of storytelling.

Original Stories and Performance by Kate Dudding
Producer and Engineer: Barry Marshall
Cover Design: Kate Dudding
Recorded Live at: Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library, Clifton Park, NY and Woodlawn Commons, Saratoga Springs, NY