Current Press Release

LONG BEACH ISLAND – The Long Beach Island of the Ocean County Library will host “Duffy’s Cut Project” at 1 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25.

Duffy’s Cut is a mass grave in Malvern, Pennsylvania holding 57 Irish immigrant workers who died in 1832 of cholera. Some died because the prejudice against Irish Catholics that had contributed to denial of care for them. Others are suspected of having been murdered out of fear of the spread of cholera.

Dr. Frank Watson has worked on the site of excavation of this grave and has written the story of these migrants and what is believed to have happened to them.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Island Library.

The branch is located at 217 S. Central Ave., Surf City.

Registration is required for this free program. To register, call the branch at 609-494-2480 or visit theoceancountylibrary.org/events.

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