A Mariner’s Life: Colonial life in Maritime America

Program Type:

Information/Lecture

Age Group:

Adults
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  • Registration will close on January 28, 2026 @ 6:00pm.
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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.

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