Women Behind the Whaling Industry (Zoom)

Program Type:

Educational, Nature & Environmental

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

Event Details

Join local historian, Erin Boris for this talk discussing the role Long Island native women played in the whaling industry. Long Island was at the heart of commercial whaling, the USA's 5th most profitable industry in the 19th century, and LI native women ensured industry success by their labor and the methods of survival they built while men were at sea.

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Disclaimer(s)

Online Only

This program is online only.