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Podcast: The Long Island History Project
Episode: Lightning Strikes: Saving the Wardenclyffe Lab in Shoreham
Description: Corner of the Wardenclyffe site. Photo by Chris Kretz. The historic site you want to preserve is up for sale for $1.3 million dollars. The good news: New York State will give you $850,000. The bad news: you have to raise the same amount. And there are other interested buyers. And the clock is ticking. That's the position The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe (TSCW) found themselves in by the summer of 2012. But don't worry, there's a happy ending. In this second of a two-part interview, Jane Alcorn (TSCW president) explains how they turned things around. The...