The Long Beach Island branch of the Ocean County Library in Surf City will host a program on the “Duffy’s Cut Project” on Monday, Feb. 25,at 1 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Friends of the Island Library.
Duffy’s Cut is a mass grave in Malvern, Pa., holding 57 Irish immigrant workers who died in 1832 of cholera. Some died because the prejudice against Irish Catholics had contributed to denial of care for them. Others are suspected of having been murdered out of fear of the spread of cholera.
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