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Hola! Waist size on the breeches?

Congrats, dear sir! Just remember-this kind of christening, we don't break the bottle!

Thanks so much to all who welcomed me with open arms to my FIRST REAL PIRATE EVENT. Having been going to Beaufort since I was born, I had never done the Invasion. THANKS SO MUCH GUYS! -Betsy

I do at least one NPS event a year, and they have always continued to protect the battlefield and earthworks WHILE encouraging their small reenactment. Funny thing is, this was posted I think the week of the Manassas reenactment OR IMMEDIATELY AFTER. My father took part in that reenactment. I didn't hear anybody complaining. And yet, CW reenactors were the ONLY reenactors in that...I am insulted and feel cheated on their behalf right now, as well as on behalf of all reenactors. I also feel used, and would feel only more so if I had been able to take part in that particular event and refuse to do it in the future if that's the angle that particular park chooses to take, and will do so at any park that treats the matter that way. Having applied relentlessly to these jobs and seen the paperwork that goes into them AND the paperwork junk that goes into them on the inside, I agree with you, Jas. Hook, the NPS continues to squeeze the life out. They refuse to accept the simple principle that PEOPLE IN FUNNY CLOTHES THAT MAKE THINGS GO BOOM MAKE MONEY and thus, support their parks. Not only that, I can see how thousands of current and potential NPS employees will no longer bother with much of the history that intrigues so many.

Be Advised, Folks: Cape Charles just on the other side of the Bay Bridge Tunnel is trying to start up a Tall Ships event, which was held the same weekend in conjunction with the Kalmar Nyckel, which I heard sold out all its day sails. And BEACH!

Kevin Duffus: His name came up when I was doing my 10-15 pager for my Pirates and Piracy class on Blackbeard, anyone know what he's into besides this article? I think he's local to the Bath region, or at least that's what my befuddled brain wants to tell me. As part of the same class, we were required to read a book about a slaver called The Dilligent. Piracy and slavery were inextricably linked, whether it was popular to take slavers as new pirate vessels for their speed and cargo room, or, if you buy Marcus Rediker's theory that piracy was a voluntary grass-roots movement of formerly upstanding sailors who got tired of bad conditions and worse food, that many pirates were former sailors aboard slavers and couldn't stand them because of the terrible conditions of their own lives, and not for the moral attrocities that the institution was based upon. Foxe or someone may have said something similar, I just did a bunch of scanning.

PS: Even the Rennies laugh at all the Jack Sparrows. We just take a shot every time we see one to deaden the urge to roll the eyes.

Yeah, Hate sucks. But I will have to say that it "grinds my gears" (not that I've ever done pirate-specific stuff, mostly Renfaires, colonial reenacting, and Civil War and a few things in-between. I've experienced my fair share of "pirates") not how people dress, but how some people expect that they can behave irresponsibly and disrespectfully and saying "Oh, I'm a pirate" and that's a creditable excuse. Luckily, I haven't met here nor have I heard tell of anyone on here that is that way. As my mum says "No matter where you go, there you are." It stands, even when you're in pirate garb. And I fully support Sir Patrick's stance with the rest of ya.

Unfortuneately, we're having the same issue here in NC-they just passed the bill to shut down many NC State historic sites, including the colonial capital of New Bern, Tryon Palace. It's probably the biggest colonial site we've got, and I do believe they were thinking the same for the Albemarle Maritime Museum and cutting a big chunk out of the same at Beaufort (flagship museum of the QAR exhibit). Rotten, rotten rotten, all the way 'round.

Found a totally different character...a mite bit more land-based, but pirate affiliated nonetheless.

I figured it was bloody unlikely to connect the two, but anyways.

No piratical activities: Oh bummer (sheerly from a reenactor perspective). A friend of mine pointed me toward a site with several newspaper articles on a Mary Harvey (alias "Moll" or "Mackeig") (far from being a completely academic site, but it was a good read) who in London in 1730 repeatedly got herself into a ruckus at a pub, got arrested, abused the arresting officers, was sent to prison and either A) verbally abused the judge or (more frequently) escaped or attempted to escape prison in various guises. Just on the hunt for a new character, but don't want to start improvising details until I have reasonable documented sources on said person. If necessary, I might just improvise the whole thing, but would prefer not to.

True, I'm just making the anatomical argument for the "women who went undetected" argument.

"How Can A Woman Hide Herself on a Cramped Ship" argument: in reference to a period, one must remember that it is possible to just stop having one due to malnutrition. However, in the case of Mary Read having this issue and going undetected, this dismenorheah ( I believe that's the term) relates to infertility, which she obviously didn't have according to Johnson. I'm no nutritionist, but it seems that the poor diet may have related to a less noticeable period. I mean, besides the "peeing off the boat" and such, can you really tell when she's on her period? And you gotta remember: how many times a day are these gals changing clothes? Not often, and once the bosom is bound and the hips stop swaying noticeably, it becomes more feasible for us chicks to disguise ourselves. A little grease, bound raggedy hair, and you're set. While clothing has always delineated the sexes, we must remember that sexual division of labor as relating to society became far more pronounced in the Victorian era, and in reference to cross-dressing especially, it wasn't so much frowned upon in the eras leading up to the GAoP. Brush up your Shakespeare, folks: Twelfth Night, As You Like It, and the stage culture of the day all had women playing boys, men playing women, and so on. As it developed in the Victorian period, this era is not quite so concerned with moral issues of gender, homosexuality, etc. That is not to say that it was openly practiced, but it was accepted that gender was a possible play-thing in some arenas. The only moment I would think would be awkward would be use of the "head" while it was still geographically "a head" on the boat.

"Laying A-Low" is what I've heard. Can't remember the other one.