DANBURY, CONN. — Author and speaker Jeremy D’Entremont is known as “Mr. Lighthouse,” the Web master of lighthouses and a lighthouse hugger.

D’Entremont will be at Western Connecticut State University at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 26, to discuss the “History and Hauntings of Connecticut Lighthouses.” The event will be in Room 243 of the Westside Campus Classroom building, 43 Lake Avenue Ext. There will be a book purchase and signing afterward for anyone interested in his myriad lighthouse books.

One haunted lighthouse is off the shoreline in nearby Fairfield. The Penfield Lighthouse is said to be stomping ground of the drowned spirit of lighthouse keeper Frederick Jordan. In 1916 Jordan apparently drowned after his boat capsized near the lighthouse and his apparition appeared weeks later. Legend also has it that two young boys who nearly drowned in 1942 were saved by Jordan’s ghost. Other lighthouse keepers have reported over the years seeing Jordan’s spirit roaming the 51-foot-tall lighthouse.

A writer and photographer for Lighthouse Digest, D’Entremont’s books include “Lighthouse Handbook: New England,” The Lighthouses of Rhode Island,” “Lighthouses of Maine,” and his latest “The Lighthouse Handbook: Hudson River & New York Harbor, published in May 2009. He is the president of the Friends of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse, the vice president of the Dutch Island Lighthouse Society, and is on the board of directors of the American Lighthouse Foundation.

For more information, call the Office of University Relations at (203) 837-8486.

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