Red Maria

Shouldn't that be Pirates of Pennsic? Sorry I had to say that! Won't be there.

Capt mino Do you also see thrise of piracy due to large container vessels that are nigh on impossible to patrol on board? Not just the lack of maritime patrols in territorial waters. I've heard of a lot of contemporary piracy going on these larege container ships. Your thoughts.

There is an article in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America v.98:1 Mar. 2004 pg.21-38 tilted Daniel Defoe, Nathaiel Mist and the "General History of Pyrates" in it the author Arne Bialuschewski surmises that Mist is the author citing registration of the work by Mist in the Staitoners Office (24, June 1724 for Nataniel Mist by his foreman John Wolfe), two anonymous references in a pamphelet (Mist's Closet Broke Open), and a note by an Under Secretary of State. Again to key in the whole article is not possible for me. If anyone wishes a copy please let me know offline and I will send it to you for cost. Corsair is the author of this article same as the afore mentioned doctoral theses? The author seems to make a good case for Mist. BTW Defoe wrote for Mist.

The Library just got in Prologue a Quarterly of the National Archives & Records Adiminstration Special Issue no.3 Nov. 2004. In it there is an article titled A New Era Begins for the Charters of Fredom (pg. 14). It's about conservation/restoration being done on The Constitution, The Bill of Rights and you guessed it The Declartion of Independence. The documents were removed on July 5, 2001 and returned in September 2003. There is a remarcable close-up photo of someone retouching the W on "We the the People". I wish I could post the whole article but I can't so if anyone is interested please contact me off-line.

I was just surprised and delighted that they used the Silence Goodbody letters. That's pretty obscure Frankliniana.

I went to the preimere and I agree about the black powder. I like the movie though a good pop corn movie. Another annoying thing to me and aechivist here at work it the constant rolling and unrolling of the Declartion of Independence. As an Archivist here put after the third unrolling all the writing would have fallen off. <cringe> But hey! this is Hollywood! You can do anything you want to 280 something year old vellum!

I thought 1492 was awfull (both historically and cinematically) and I haven't scenen the new Vanity Fair yet. Sorry

This is an excert from an article about the new Sponge Bob Squarepants movie: "A group of old-time pirates sings the theme song in the film, and Avril Lavigne belts it out on the soundtrack CD. “It originated as a sea chanty,” Hillenburg said of the theme. “It’s supposed to be like a song sailors use, a working song to keep rhythm while they’re pulling up things.” I like the phrase "while pulling up things" It leaves alot to the imagination!

OMG! I almost forgot Jane Austen! Sense & Sensability (great adaptation by Emma Thompson who gave a smashing performance along with Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, & Hugh Grant) Mansfield Park (underated adaption) Pride & Predjudice (mini-series but out on DVD) Persuasion

Watch for the scenes lit entirely by candle light. First time it was ever done. Kubrick was genius. :)

Vatel (a movie with George Depardieu about a perfectionist chef during Louis IV) Amadeus (about Mozart) Tom Jones (the 1962 version with Albert Finney. Oh that eating scene!) Babette's Feast (while not about history it's a great window into mid-19th c. Denmark and haute cusine) Billy Budd (1962 Based on the novel by Melville and up to M & C IMO the best decpiction of life on the RN) Valmont (Colin Firth in the title role yummy!) Desiree (abour a sweetheart of Bonaparte) For laughs: Monty Python & the Holy Grail (Terry Jones who co-wrote and directed is a Medieval scholar with a degree from Oxford) All the Black Adder series I II II IV & V (I have it at home. :) )

Well considering GHP was first published in 1724 and Stevenson if you mean (you do mean Robert Louis Stevenson?) do was born in 1860. Even if you mean Robert Stephenson (inventor of the steam engine) was born in 1803. So either of these two gents would be hard press to have written for DeFoe. If Defoe, indeed, really existed or was really and all his work was written by Capt. Charles Johnson. <pulling Foxe's leg right back.> Now that being said seaman (and pirates are seaman) have very little fashion sense so even if it wasn't fasionable for land lubbers to wear one they could have. I'm going to look around here for prints of late 17th c. - early 18th. c. prints of seaman and see if they arer wearing earrings or not. If they are then it is likely pirates wore earring too.

Huzzah Capt MacNamara! :) I mentioned this on another thread about Deacon but I think I'll mention it here too. Let's have a wake for Deacon! I've got the rum anyone want to join me? To Deacon Frye a wise and witty pirate!

Sounds a good idea John. How about suggesting it to the propriator of this here pub Bloody Buckets?

Thanks John. I saw the obit and e-mailed Thomas McDonald to place the obit here on the Pub as the Pub wasn't on the list he had sent the obit. I'll miss Scott. He was a good man and contributed is knowledge and humor both here and on Sword Forum. Let's have a wake for Scott Bubar aka Deacon Frye! It maybe a couple of months late but being so near to Samhain Scott has a better chance of hearing us! I says well all drink a toast to Scott and I've got the rum! :) To a great pirate Deacon Frye!

Scott dead! I'm checking with a friend who's a moderator on the Sword Forum if this is true. That's the other place I know him from. I hope it's not true!

Thanks Capt. You an tell a lot about how a book was bound from the spine. This past week I've been transfering rare books from the old stacks to the new research center. Books from 1501 to 1700. Beautiful old bindings.

Maria, thanks for the tip, 'tis good when pirates hear 'o things wot might need the help 'o the Brethren, and you are one more of the heroes :) .........The rest, well, 'tis wot we are about, eh??? .........hopefully, there will be some availability, otherwise, we'll hafta sail south and shell Redwood City!!......They were a wonderful family, and we love the chance to make a whole family 'sign the aRRticles!! Thanks Gary. I'm glad the adventure turned out so well for Blake and his family. I'm also glad that I forward the e-mail from Cindy Vallar that started this all in motion! I hope someone makes sure she knows how it turned out. :) Kudos all around!

Yes please pictures! Will the DVD be available to us down here in So Cal? Thanks for making happen Quill & Gary. :)

Please site your source on this. Primary documents if you can.

Ray Amsbury of Ambury Ceramics! He and his wife Michelle own the make-a-necklace booth as well. There was a Pirate's Cove booth at Southern too. Great people. I worked for them last year for one weekend and the gave me a participant's pass and parking permit for the run of Faire! Great people, great stuff. It's good to hear from Steve since I'm an long time Faire person.

Capt Enigma Do you have a photo of the spine? I've taken some bookbinding classes and since I work in a library wirth litterally hundreds of thousands pre-1700 titles Im interested. Thanks

I will be leaving tomorrow morning for Murphyboro IL to attend the Ren. Faire Zorg and his wife Mad Hawkins run. I'll take plenty of pics and post them when I get back on Monday. Maybe I'll run into some of you there. :)

Nonetheless that's taken from court transcripts which is very good primary source documents. It's really typical sailors garb from the period. Sailors just wore kercheifs around thier heads. It just odd at that time for women to do so which why it stood out in Dorothy Thomas's head. A note the first edition of the General History of Pirates had an illustration showing Bonny & Read in pretty much what was discribed in the court transcripts. In subsequent editions the girls were "sexed-up'n their male attire.

I posted this in Rabble ARousing but I thought I post it here too. This is from David Moore a friend and archeoloigst with the QAR project: Well, TECHNICALLY we're back to work. First time to excavate on the site since Oct 2004. Unfortunately, its only for this week. And only reason they made decision to work at all is that the guy who found the site back in '96 is raising holy hell with some of the folks in Raleigh which essentially forced them into doing "something" on the site. We did find the 23rd cannon on the site yesterday however, and a number of ship's rigging elements and small iron cooking pot this afternoon I know he's been frustrated lately with the buracracy surrounding the dig.