JCNERR’s 2017-2018 Lunch n’ Learn Series

Join the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve on the 2nd Wednesday of the month from December to May at 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. at the Tuckerton Seaport.  Call 609-296-8868 for more information and to register.  The cost is $2.00 per person (payable at the door).  For the 12:30 program, participants can bring a lunch or take advantage of their lunch option for $6.00 (registration for lunch is required two days in advance).

“Crime on the Bay” Mary-Beth Brophy, Ocean County College

Did you know that the advent of oyster planting in the waterways around Tuckerton led to both a murder and a Supreme Court ruling?  That a cache of bootleg liquor seized in 1923 prompted one Ocean County Sheriff to accuse his predecessor of embezzlement?  That the Keeper of the Little Egg Coast Guard Station (now the Marine Field Station) was court-martialed for colluding with rum runners as a result of a confession he claimed was coerced?  That there is some truth to the legend of the Barnegat Pirates?  Join storyteller Mary-Beth Brophy for an hour of tales about what happened when the government sought to control how baymen in and around Little Egg Harbor could use the ocean.