The first enslaved Africans to reach these shores touched ground in 1619 at Old Point Comfort, Va., but the site is now an Army base, with no commemoration at all of what some call the black Mayflower.
The Merseybeat Band plays at 7 p.m. on Friday at the Hicksville Library, (516) 931-1417, and, also Friday but outside, the Sound Symphony contributes "Legendary Romances" at 7 p.m. on the North Shore Library grounds in Shoreham (631) 929-4488.
The ship, sailing in a dense fog, strayed too close to shore and grounded on the rocks, sending a shower of sparks that lit up the night.
By the early 1700s they'd depleted their near-shore whaling grounds, so they began outfitting ships with dozen-strong crews and venturing farther out into the Atlantic.
When data is stored off-shore, what grounds would legitimize access?
Today, I see only open water because the pack ice has retreated hundreds of miles from the coast -- far from the productive, near-shore hunting grounds that polar bears prefer.
They found little mtDNA control region sequence variaton among samples from in-shore nursery grounds within ocean basins.
The arc of the messaging over the four days was strategically deft: Shore up the ground to the left then capture the ground on the right.
"I should have shored up the ground game in Florida earlier," he said, citing that lapse as one of "a whole series of little tactical miscues".
From the moment you hear the words "The New Jersey Shore became a killing ground," or "Klein pulls the arm out of the dead shark's throat and rushes it to the hospital," you're hooked.
