From Pirates to Rumrunners: Smuggling on Long Island

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Educational Lecture, History

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Adult
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Former Newsday reporter and historian Bill Bleyer will explain why pirates were drawn to Long Island at the turn of the 18th century and why bootleggers and gangsters favored Long Island during the Prohibition.