"Famous Long Island Shipwrecks" Lecture

🌊 Join us for an insightful lecture by Bill Bleyer exploring the rich maritime history of Long Island! 🚢

Discover dramatic tales of maritime disasters, including:

• The HMS Culloden wrecked at Montauk during the American Revolution
• The catastrophic fire of the steamship Lexington in 1840, known as the Sound’s deadliest disaster
• The sinking of the USS San Diego during World War I, among others

📚 About the Speaker: Bill Bleyer is the author of Long Island and the Sea: A Maritime History and several other books on Long Island’s fascinating past. Following an award-winning career as a reporter for Newsday, he now works as an author and freelance journalist.

🎉 Event Highlights: This lecture is part of a summer series commemorating America 250! Don’t miss our next presentation by John Mills, a CT historian and genealogist, on August 13.

📍 Location: 75 Greenmanville Ave, Mystic, CT 06355-1946, United States
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