Bay Shore Long Island And Whaling Presentation By Prizewinning Author

Press release from the Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library:

April 3, 2020

Long Island and Whaling: A PowerPoint lecture that covers from the Native Americans who hunted whales offshore from canoes, to the first whaling companies in America in Southampton, to the rise of industrial-scale whaling in Sag Harbor, Greenport and Cold Spring Harbor, to the famous whaler Mercator Cooper and his trip to the closed society of Japan, to the demise of the industry from the Gold Rush, the Civil War and the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania. This very special presentation will be brought to via the ZOOM web conferencing platform.

All interested persons must register for this program by emailing:

billbleyer@gmail.com

***** 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.