This is the U.S. Coast Guard boat that the Can Do set out to rescue in the New England Blizzard of 1978. Award-winning author Michael Tougias of Norfolk, Mass., tells about the perilous ordeal in his book Ten Hours Until Dawn, and will present a slide presentation and a Coast Guard audiotape at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, at the Marco Island Branch Library.

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This is the U.S. Coast Guard boat that the Can Do set out to rescue in the New England Blizzard of 1978. Award-winning author Michael Tougias of Norfolk, Mass., tells about the perilous ordeal in his book Ten Hours Until Dawn, and will present a slide presentation and a Coast Guard audiotape at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, at the Marco Island Branch Library.

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