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Former Reporter Turned Historian To Lecture On Long Island Maritime History At Amagansett Library

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Journalist and author Bill Bleyer will speak at the Amagansett Library on Sunday.
A lithograph from Bill Bleyer's "Long Island and the Sea" of the steamship Lexington ablaze in Long Island Sound in January 1840.
Journalist and author Bill Bleyer will discuss his book, "Long Island and the Sea," at the Amagansett Library on Sunday.
Journalist and author Bill Bleyer will speak at the Amagansett Library on Sunday.
A lithograph from Bill Bleyer's "Long Island and the Sea" of the steamship Lexington ablaze in Long Island Sound in January 1840.
Journalist and author Bill Bleyer will discuss his book, "Long Island and the Sea," at the Amagansett Library on Sunday.

Journalist and author Bill Bleyer will speak at the Amagansett Library on Sunday.

A lithograph from Bill Bleyer's "Long Island and the Sea" of the steamship Lexington ablaze in Long Island Sound in January 1840.

Journalist and author Bill Bleyer will discuss his book, "Long Island and the Sea," at the Amagansett Library on Sunday.

Journalist and author Bill Bleyer will speak at the Amagansett Library on Sunday.

A lithograph from Bill Bleyer's "Long Island and the Sea" of the steamship Lexington ablaze in Long Island Sound in January 1840.

Journalist and author Bill Bleyer will discuss his book, "Long Island and the Sea," at the Amagansett Library on Sunday.

Long Island’s maritime history is more than just tales of whaling ships registered in Sag Harbor or sportfishing charters steaming out of Montauk. This Sunday, former Newsday reporter Bill Bleyer... more

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