Maritime Smuggling on Long Island (In Person)

Talk by former Newsday reporter Bill Bleyer. A PowerPoint lecture will show you why pirates like Captain Kidd were attracted to Long Island at the turn of the 18^th century and how a visit by Kidd to Gardiners Island led to him dying on the gallows in London. Learn why Long Island was so attractive to bootleggers during Prohibition that the Atlantic Ocean off the South Shore became known as Rum Row and was frequented by bootleggers like William “The Real McCoy” McCoy who supplied gangsters like Al Capone and Dutch Schultz.