Gilded Age industrial titan Andrew Carnegie dedicated much of his fortune to the cause of literacy. Historian Rick Feingold will present “Andrew Carnegie: From Steel to the Building of Libraries” at the Long Beach Island branch of the Ocean County Library on Tuesday, April 30 at 2 p.m. The talk is sponsored by the Friends of the Island Library.
Carnegie’s low-cost steel production method allowed railroads to flourish. Employees in Carnegie’s Homestead, Pa. factory endured primitive conditions.
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