Arts & Entertainment

AMC's 'Turn' Puts Eyes on Long Island

If you missed the pilot of AMC’s “Turn,” the drama about America’s first spy ring with roots in Oyster Bay and Setauket, take heart. The network is running the episode again this week, and is available for 29 days online.

The first espisode looks at the Culper Spy Ring during the Revolutionary War, when a “Long Island farmer is recruited to spy on the British Army.”

But Oyster Bay’s Robert Townsend – Samuel Culper Jr. who is perhaps regarded today as the most key figure in the spy ring – does not appear first 10 episodes, according to Newsday, as he did not join the organization until a year after it was formed.

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In his role, Townsend sent messages from Manhattan to Setauket that were then communicated by traveling across the Long Island Sound via whale boat to General George Washington's headquarters in Connecticut. The Townsend home is a now a museum, known today as Raynham Hall in Oyster Bay. 

Catch the episode this week on AMC on on Tuesday at 1 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., Saturday, 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. and Sunday 7:30 p.m. or online.

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