[SEMCO] Digging into the Past / Attack on Orleans

[Teresa Izzo]

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE 
RELEASE 
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
June 16, 
2015 
Teresa Izzo
                                                                        508-896-3867 
ext. 137
                                                                tizzo at ccmnh.org

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents
Digging into the Past
with
Author Jake Klim
Attack on Orleans


BREWSTER, MA ­The Cape Cod Museum of Natural 
History in Brewster continues its popular 
archaeology/history series, Digging into the Past, with author Jake Klim
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 1pm.

  On the warm morning of July 21, 1918, during 
the last year of the First World War a new 
prototype of German submarine surfaced three 
miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts 
and attacked an unarmed towboat and her four 
barges. A handful of the shells fired by the 
U-Boat’s two deck guns struck Nauset Beach, 
giving the modest town of Orleans the distinction 
of being the first, and only, spot in the United 
States to receive fire from the enemy during the 
entire World War. Although upwards of one 
thousand citizens watched the spectacle from 
shore, Attack on Orleans is a story very few 
Americans, outside the proud town of Orleans, have ever heard.

  Author Jake Klim will chronicle the first 30 
minutes of the 90 minute attack and celebrate the 
resilience of Cape Cod at war.

The presentation will be held at the Museum on Tuesday, July 14th at 1pm.

Free with Museum Admission

  For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133.

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Teresa Izzo
Program Coordinator
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Main St./Rte. 6A
Brewster, MA 02631
508-896-3867 x137
508-896-8844 - fax 
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