Sat, Mar 04
|Southold Town Recreation Center
Winter Lecture: “Dust for Blood: Long Island Labor Camps”
Join us for this free 2023 lecture by Mark Torres titled “Dust for Blood: Long Island Labor Camps”, part of our “Local Farming Through the Years” Winter Lecture Series sponsored by NOFO Real Estate.
Time & Location
Mar 04, 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Southold Town Recreation Center, 970 Peconic Lane, Peconic, NY 11958
About the event
Southold Historical Museum’s free 2023 Winter Lecture Series sponsored by NOFO Real Estate continues with the third lecture in the series titled “Dust for Blood: Long Island Labor Camps”, by Author Mark Torres at 12:00 noon on March 4, 2023 at Southold Town Recreation Center, 970 Peconic Lane, Peconic.
Mr. Torres, who is the author of Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood (The History Press, 2021), will share the history of the labor camps that sustained the potato farming industry on Long Island, and will discuss factors that led to the ultimate decline of this labor system and the potato industry as a whole.
This lecture is the third and final in the Winter lecture series, “Local Farming Through the Years”, and is free and open to the public.