A Mariner’s Life: Colonial life in Maritime America

Program Type:

Information/Lecture

Age Group:

Adults
  • Registration is required for this event.
  • Registration will open on December 30, 2025 @ 9:00am.

Event Details

What was life like on an 18th-century sailing vessel?  How did pirates, privateers and seamen stay alive during epidemics, sea battles, and storms? What did they eat, and how was food prepared on a rolling ship? Sailors scrubbed the deck, but they scrub themselves? In the pitch black below-quarters, could anyone see? Come learn about ingenious lighting devices and pirates’ eye patches, while sampling some hard tack and “pocket soup.” Cultural historian Diane Schwindt presents.

Open to all.