Waves crash against the St. George Reef Lighthouse in October 2021. The inactive lighthouse, about six miles off the coast of Crescent City, Calif., was first illuminated on Oct. 20, 1892. John ...

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 ...