Swim: Why We Love the Water - Lynn Sherr

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When: Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:00pm - 12:00pm

Where: 92nd Street Y - Tribeca
200 Hudson St.
Price: From $18

In time for the Summer Olympics, journalist Lynn Sherr explores the lure and lore of swimming, an activity that’s captivated everyone from Julius Caesar and Benjamin Franklin to Michael Phelps. Learn who was first to swim the English Channel, why Olympians don’t breathe when they swim the 50-meter freestyle and which president skinny-dipped in the Potomac River and nearly drowned.

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