John Gibbons shivered in the back of the little boat hauling him to his first assignment as a member of the U.S. Coast Guard. It was 1953. Gibbons was a baby-faced 18-year-old kid from Ohio who had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Waves crash against the St. George Reef Lighthouse in October 2021. The inactive lighthouse, about six miles off the coast of ...

John Zimmerman, president of the St. George Reef Lighthouse Preservation Society, pictured with the historic first-order Fresnel lens from the lighthouse. The lens is now displayed at the Del Norte ...