ONLINE: UPDATE: Program Changed to- LI Naval History in Wartime (was Famous Long Island Shipwrecks)

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Local History

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Adults
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**Due to extenuating circumstances, this month's lecture has been changed to "Long Island Naval History In Wartime".

Please join us in conjunction with the East End Seaport Museum for this exciting presentation by historian, author and retired Newsday reporter Bill Bleyer.

A PowerPoint lecture that begins with the country’s first amphibious landing on Plum Island, the British blockade including the wreck of HMS Culloden, and the Meigs and other whaleboat raids; submarine warfare and the wreck of the British 22-gun sloop-of-war Sylph during the War of 1812; Confederate raiders capturing Union shipping just offshore during the Civil War; the sinking of the only American capital warship in World War I off Fire Island; and U-boats dropping off spies and attacking commercial vessels during World War II. This program will be online via ZOOM.