The group of educators taking classes on the island my week were assigned to keep journals like lighthouse keepers did; one wrote that St. Helena reminded her of her younger days with an Amish ...

Da Viking and Poppins — aka Chuck and Martha Hayden — take a trip to the lonely St. Helena Island and find it ... learn the history of the St. Helena lighthouse and see the amazing work ...

Short on time? Sign up for one of the many lighthouse tours. The narrated Westward Tour passes St. Helena Island and White Shoal, Grays Reef and Waugoshance lighthouses. ($52.50/adults ...

ST. HELENA ISLAND, Mich. MaryAnn Moore and Pan Godchaux had eager smiles and the to-do list ready when their guests arrived for a four-day stay. “Sweep sidewalks and dock,” it said.

The ferry tour is a fund-raising effort for two of the group's historic lighthouses: The St. Helena Island lighthouse of St. Ignace and the Cheboygan River Front Range Lighthouse.

The group hopes the tour will raise enough money restore the roofs of the St. Helena Island Lighthouse of St. Ignace and the Cheboygan River Front Range Lighthouse of Cheboygan. "Those were in ...