Sinking of the Steamboat Lexington

Program Type:

Lectures

Age Group:

Adults
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Event Details

Bill Bleyer returns to discuss his new book, The Sinking of the Steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound. Hear about the 1840 disaster, the worst in Long Island’s maritime history and how the survivors escaped by using cotton bales as life rafts.