In custom pine boxes — not unlike primitive coffins — rests a Fresnel lens ordered in the mid-1880s for San Diego’s then-new lighthouse. But this elusive lighthouse lens, designated H-L 330 by its ...

Wood carvers will sometimes use chainsaws to “rough in,” but finishing requires more subtle sculpting tools. In lighting, as with other crafts, no single tool is perfect for everything. Coarse or ...

On Monday, expert lampist Chad Kaiser got to work disassembling the more than 100-year-old Fresnel lens at the Dali Museum in Monterey. “Compared with several other lenses around the country, it is in ...

Amidst an ongoing $18 million restoration project of the Pigeon Point Light Station Historic Park, community members are invited to celebrate the lighthouse’s 153rd anniversary with a lighting of the ...