The “Lightkeeper’s Wife” opens with a “loud crack … the familiar sound of a shipwreck.” Hannah Snow slices through storm-tossed waves in a skiff, arms aching at the oars as she rows perilously close ...

Hike name: Saugerties Lighthouse Trail through the Ruth Reynolds Glunt Nature Preserve. Location: The Esopus Estuary, just east of Saugerties, Ulster County. Length: A mile round trip. Rating: ...

A Russian flag and what appears to be an Orthodox cross are seen in a magnified image taken from Cape Nosappu in the city of Nemuro, Hokkaido, of the Kaigara Island lighthouse in the Russian-held ...