Illustrated Talk “A Most Pivotal Decade: Fishers Island In The 1940s”

US Navy conducting top secret experiments with anti-submarine detection devices (ASDIC) from a barge off Club Beach during World War II. Photo courtesy of Jim Carpenter.

Sunday, February 26th, Museum Director Pierce Rafferty will host a virtual rebroadcast of “A Most Pivotal Decade: Fishers Island In The 1940s,” first presented and recorded at the FI Movie Theater in August 2021

In this illustrated talk, Pierce reveals much that has been forgotten or was never widely known about the 1940s on Fishers Island.

Time: Sunday, February 26, 2023 @ 4:00 – 5:00 P.M.
Place: Zoom

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Can you imagine a time when Fishers Island had billboards on the mainland promoting tourism to the island?

A wrenching bankruptcy of the east end’s Fishers Island Corporation in 1940 combined with disruptions caused by World War II to create a cascading series of events that threatened Fishers Island’s economic stability from one end of the island to the other. This talk chronicles those crises and reveals how they were confronted and addressed during the 1940s, a norm-shattering decade that helped shape the Fishers Island we know today.