Diosa De Cancion

Part 2 of the Hampton Blog is up and includes a bar brawl :) Blog Link

Ok, So I have been lax in updating this page of postings.... Let me catch up..... May 6, 2011 - Ceramics - Pirate and Steam Punk Styles May 12, 2011 - Pirates Take Over Island Roots Heritage Festival In the Bahamas May 19, 2011 - Gamers work to stop real pirates May 20, 2011 - New Face in POTC Disney ride May 25, 2011 -Why I'm a pirate not a gold digger May 28, 2011 -Terror On the Queen Anne's Revenge May 29, 2011 - History Beneath Your Feet May 30, 2011 - Our Pirates in a Bahamian Newspaper May 31, 2011 - A Treasure Chest of Car Parts June 2, 2011 - How far we have come June 6, 2011 - Nautical Art on Nautical Charts June 8, 2011 -Hampton Blackbeard Festival Part 1

Ahoy! This was my first Blackbeard Festival and I had a wonderful time! Much thanks to the Blackbeard Crew, CSF folks and all those who had a hand in getting me there and trusting me to teach the kiddies!! I have posted part one of my 3-parter blog on the fest with some fun pics and stories. I hope you all enjoy it. Hampton Blackbeard Festival Blog

Hmm...how did I not have myself on the list. I will of course be there! I am guessing I will be squeezed in at the Wreckers camp!

I know I am a little late to the party to respond here, but gents, it was a fantastic song, and yes...still stuck in the head!! Well done!

I sent you a message on FB....

Mickey, thanks so much for a wonderful event! I had a blast! Here are my blog posts on the trip with pics, video, etc Santa Maria Blog Post 1 Santa Maria Blog Post 2

Don't forget! Set your DVRs! I got to watch it early (it's good working in the news business) and it's awesome. I did an interview with the host as well... That's below in my blog link. But it's VERY enjoyable. The video and 3d work they did were just wonderful! Port Royal Special Blog

April 29 - Watching Space History when it happens on Twitter April 30 - A Look at Law Day & The Boston Massacre May 2 - Scurvy Awareness Day May 2 - The Navy SEAL mindset in the death of Osama bin Laden May 3 - New History Channel Show delves into the shape of the states. May 4 - Port Royal National Geographic Special

A few more April 25 - There may be more places to hunt for treasure April 26 - The new POTC movie trailer April 27 - Big Guns About To Fire In Gettysburg April 28 - A 1949 Pirate was good for folk music! April 28 - New LEGO Pirate Game Trailers

Hi all, I have been doing a blog for a little while that has a pirate / living history theme to it. There is a little of everything from comparisons of today's pirates to those of the past to Disney POTC items, and even other aspects of living history. Instead of putting up a new post every time I post an entry, I thought I will just put them here in digest form and add to the list as new ones go up. If you are linked to me on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, I also send out links on those three sites. I hope you enjoy some of them. April 16 -A look at the POTC Lego Pirates Game Trailer April 18 - Piracy Through the Eyes of a Child April 19 - Beautiful Annie Leibovitz POTC Portraits April 20 - Trailers for National Geographic Port Royal, Jamaica Feature April 21 - A video look at an awesome Civil War 3D App for the iPad April 22 - A New Pirate Lass Debuts at Disney Theme Parks April 23 -Fun Disney POTC Skull Creator program released on the POTC site If you would like to link up to me on the other sites... here are the links. Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Enjoy! Diosa

Hi all, Here's another blog posting... this time I thought a look at one of today's pirates was a great way to figure out how the pirates we portray might have thought. Living History Blog Entry

Thank you Mad Mike for posting that! Quite the scary footage! I have always appreciated the power of Mother Nature, but videos like that where the water just keeps coming and coming.... wow....

Again, to summarize the deleted post above so this post makes sense.... These counterpoints were raised: It was the Kingston Act passed after the fire in 1703 which he got out of the book Port Royal Jamaica by Michael Pawson and David Buissert and that The USGS is a scientific guesstimate at best, and that he was deferring to the official British and Jamaican records on it the quake and wave(s). It was also noted that it wasn't an actual tidal wave/tsunami as these are typically associated with subduction zone quakes and Jamaica's was more than likely a quake along a fault line so the sea floor did not suddenly fall or rise, as required to create a tsunami. And below is my response to those comments So the ban was after the fire and hurricane, but not as a result of the earthquake.... as they did work to rebuild after that. You're talking 12 years later...I really haven't studied what happened further on as much, I mainly am interested in the quake and the facts surrounding that... And yes, I happen to know that book. Since you got custody of that copy I have picked up another On the tsunami front, they do not get many tsunamis, but their records refer to the 1692 quake as one such incident as this being the case. If you check out the research of Dr. Margaret D. Wiggins-Grandison from the University of the West Indies in Kingston, it is estimated it was a 6ft wave. And just as a side note, again in 1907, she refers to 6-10 ft waves on the North Coast as tsunamis. So, what makes them tsunamis? Now, it is true, that plates have to move up or down to cause a tsunami. This is usually unlikely along the Caribbean plate, as it's a pretty docile plate, but it can happen. It is extremely rare. But the 1692 and 1907 quakes are believed to have been large enough to cause this to happen. In all of the Caribbean there are only 10 times that researchers believe this has happened in about 500 years. What they think happened is that the eastern Caribbean plate moved all at once in order to create what would have to be about a 7.5 quake. So was there really a tsunami? Was it a 7.5? The researchers only have the same writings and records of the incident that we do of what happened to begin their research with, followed by a lot of really cool scientific instruments that we don't have. So, I'm going to go with their assessment until I am given a reason to go with something different.

I am not sure exactly why the post above was deleted by the author. I'm a big fan of education and debate, so I was fine with the back and forth. Since it was a little helpful to know what was said in order to know what I was responding to, the counterpoints that had originally brought up were questions of how many quakes were felt in what time period, what time it actually was when they hit, that it was believed there were several tsunamis, that reconstruction had been banned in the city after the quake and finally that I had made a typo and put in 1962 in on instance instead of 1692. Below is my post in response Yes, I caught the dyslexic moment pretty quick you just started reading before I could fix it ☺ On the other points, well there are a few debates there. First, yes, I mentioned the one pocket watch did stop at 11:43, but they are still debating if that was the time of the quake or it stopped sometime after the main shock. I tend to agree with you, that would be the time of the quake. If I recall correctly, the watch was crushed in the quake, so likely had a pretty accurate time of when all hell broke loose. Yes there were foreshocks, but it is not believed those lead to the liquifaction. The main shock, estimated to be a 7.5 or so by USGS, was where the liquifaction occurred. There were multiple aftershocks as well, which could definitely explain why people said it lasted up to 15 minutes. They also believe there was just one ensuing Tsunami of 4-6 feet, which is more than enough to cover Port Royal, being barely at sea level, and multiple other high waves that followed. They were not defined as tsunamis though, just high seas and the 'washtub effect' waves coming from the harbor side. Where did you get info on a ban on building? I would be interested in reading that. Since 90 percent of the buildings in the city were destroyed, I cannot imagine they did not allow rebuilding or everyone would have had to leave. They didn't. They tried to rebuild but then had the hurricane later that decade and the fire in 1704 which destroyed everything they had rebuilt (except the forts).

Hello all, This morning as I have been watching the continuing footage of the earthquake in Japan, I saw how watching what is happening in the modern day can help us when it comes to presenting living history.... Below is a link to my blog on the topic. Link To Mary Read Blog

An article for your enjoyment today! Massachusetts voters can now register as ‘Pirates’ The Massachusetts Election Division has approved the Massachusetts Pirate Party as a political designation, allowing voters in the state to register as a "Pirate." The party strives to increase government transparency, promote personal privacy, reinforce the spread of knowledge through copyright reform, and abolish patents. "We live in a country founded on the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," the Massachusetts Pirate Party said in a statement. "For many people, those ideals are not real. The Supreme Court and Congress have expanded the power of corporations and made them more powerful than people. Increasingly government officials ignore open meeting laws, make deals favorable to corporations behind closed doors and sell off our public information to private interests." James O'Keefe, the party's organizer, told Raw Story that the party is now in the process of training activists and building local chapters. (Not to be confused with conservative activist James O'Keefe, otherwise known as the "ACORN pimp.") "Massachusetts has been a fairly good state for third parties with the Greens, Libertarians and Working Families parties being active here in the last ten years," O'Keefe said in an email. "We are looking forward to our future in Massachusetts." Of concern to the party is legislation such as the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act (COICA), a bill introduced to Congress by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) in September 2010. It would grant the federal government the power to take down any web domain found to host copyrighted material without permission. "We are currently focusing on killing the COICA bill before the Congress and are looking at legislation before the Massachusetts General Court that we can support and should oppose," O'Keefe explained. After the Swedish Piratpartiet was formed in 2006 to reform copyright laws and fight for Internet freedoms, various other Pirate parties have sprung up across the world. Pirate Parties International (PPI), a trans-national organization of Pirate parties, was formally founded in 2010 at the PPI conference in Brussels. In January, a formerly imprisoned member of the Pirate Party, Slim Amamou, was given a seat in the the Tunisian unity government after President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled the country. The United States Pirate Party was formed in 2006, but has not been registered or officially recognized in any state. "We have talked with the officers of the US Pirate Party, but have not formally asked to join the US Pirate Party," O'Keefe said. "We aren't opposed to it, we just felt that getting Massachusetts recognition was our first objective."

Ahoy all! I have posted an after action report in my Blog, along with some pics Here's the link Mary Read Blog - Searles Raid

Look forward to seeing you! I should be arriving in about 6 hours! Can someone speed this work day up! :)

Just thought I would share. PANAMA CITY (AP) _ Archaeologists say six cannons recovered from a river in Panama that could have belonged to legendary pirate Henry Morgan are being studied and could eventually be displayed. The group of Panamanian and foreign archaeologists say the cannons were found at the mouth of Panama's Chagres River, the site where Morgan's flagship, the Satisfaction, wrecked in 1671 while carrying him and his pirates to raid Panama City. The team said Monday that the size and shape of the pieces looks very similar to the characteristics of small iron guns of the 17th century. The cannons were detected in 2008 and rescued in 2010. The archaeological survey was coordinated by the Waitt Institute with collaboration with Panama's National Culture Institute.

Yeah, I'll be one of those pain in the backside Friday arrivals... couldn't get off work... I should be there between 3-4 PM and will toss stuff out quickly then bat my eyelashes so a couple of you strong men can help me set up the tent :)

Thank you all for the birthday wishes! I believe the mind is starting to go as I managed to lock myself out of the pub last week, forgetting my password....oh well, I'm back Ah, Capt Jim, so sweet are you! Whether it's fudge induced sweetness or not, I'll take it Dogge, no, the fairie did not smack me in the arse, cause you did not provide a bottle of her to do so ...or was that you offering one?

Ahoy All!! I have my next pirate profile installation ready for your perusal. This time it's our Momma Fayma and how we met as well as how she got into this pirate thing! Enjoy! Pirate Profile Blog

Ahoy all! I have finished my next pirate profile on Bilgemunky. I hope you enjoy it. Link to Pirate Profile Blog

Ahoy! I am not sure what I will be doing, but it now looks 90-95% sure I should be able to make it. a few little details to work out. I will definitely do something... now to figure out what... hmmm