Bay Shore Library Presents “Sagamore Hill: Theodore Roosevelt’s Summer White House:” Via Zoom

Press release from the Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library:

April 9, 2020

A PowerPoint lecture that covers how the Roosevelt family began to visit Oyster Bay during the Civil War and Theodore Roosevelt built his dream house at Sagamore Hill where he hosted political guests like Henry Cabot Lodge and cultural luminaries like novelist Edith Wharton. Roosevelt spent his final years happily at Sagamore Hill, and after his death in 1919 the house was preserved by his widow, the Theodore Roosevelt Association and eventually the National Park Service.

All interested persons must register for this program by emailing:

staff@bsbwlibrary.org

***** Limited to the first 100 people that register.

Bill Bleyer was a prizewinning staff writer for Newsday, the Long Island daily newspaper, for thirty-three years before retiring in 2014 to write books and freelance for the newspaper and magazines.
He is co-author, with Harrison Hunt, of Long Island and the Civil War (The History Press, 2015). He is the author of Sagamore Hill: Theodore Roosevelt’s Summer White House (The History Press, 2016); Fire Island Lighthouse: Long Island’s Welcoming Beacon (The History Press, 2017), and Long Island and the Sea: A Maritime History, (The History Press 2019)

This press release was produced by the Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.