On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst nor’easters New England has ever experienced, two oil tankers were torn in half. The only hope for the thirty sailors onboard was a tiny lifeboat manned by four Coast Guardsmen—one of them, Richard Livesey, from Fairhaven. 

Join us on September 26, at the Fairhaven Town Hall Auditorium, the Friends of the Millicent Library present Michael Tougias, co-author of The Finest Hours: The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue, who will tell this gripping story. Michael J. Tougias is the author of a number of books, including Rescue of the Bounty: Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy; Overboard!; The Finest Hours (with Casey Sherman), the basis of the major motion picture released in 2016; Fatal Forecast; and Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do. He is a sought-after lecturer who…