This webinar, a part of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound's "A Celebration of Nantucket Sound" (ACONS) educational series celebrating Nantucket Sound's rich environment, history, and economic impact was recorded on July 11, 2024.
Our guest speaker is novelist & essayist George Michelsen Foy. In this webinar, George will talk about some of the fascinating history of smugglers and rum-runners on Cape Cod, and Nantucket Sound in particular. Prohibition certainly brought an explosion in the rum-running game, with the Sound seeing its share of dark schooners and boats sneaking in on moonlit nights. At the time, rum-running was the Cape's most profitable game-one that still echoes among residents today.
George is the author of thirteen novels, including his latest, "The Last Green Light" (released in May 2024). His non-fiction has been published in Harper’s, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Men's Journal, and Slate. His latest non-fiction book was "Run the Storm." Other non-fiction works include "Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human" and "Zero Decibels: The Search for Absolute Silence." George was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction as well as prizes in Epiphany Literary Journal, Cutthroat Journal's, Fiction Factory's and Forword 's fiction contests.
At various times in his career, he worked as a factory-hand, agricultural laborer, commercial fisherman, and as chief cream-pastry transporter for a cakes factory in West London. He was educated at the Sorbonne, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Bennington College. A former officer on British coastal freighters, he teaches creative writing at New York University, and holds a US Coast Guard coastal captain’s license.
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