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St. Michaels library Lunch & Learn traces Shore ferries and rails before the Bay Bridge

Author Marty Bollinger speaks Wednesday, Nov. 4, 1 to 2:30 p.m., at 106 Fremont St. Light refreshments will be provided; the program is listed for adults.

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ST. MICHAELS, MARYLAND — The Talbot County Free Library's St. Michaels branch hosts a Lunch & Learn on life before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on Wednesday, Nov. 4, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Author Marty Bollinger will discuss the rail and ferry system that came before the bridge and the ferry industry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Bollinger wrote "When Claiborne Bridged the Chesapeake: The Rise and Fall of the Ferry Era." He is a former vice president and director of the Naval Historical Foundation and a current trustee of the United States Naval Institute Foundation. The library's listing also names Peggy Morey, executive director of the Talbot Historical Society, under "About the speakers."

Light refreshments will be provided. The program is listed for adults at 106 Fremont St., St. Michaels. Contact Amy Wise at awise [at] tcfl.org or 410-745-5877.

Source: Talbot County Free Library

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