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I think the main challenge Willie is the budget. I think the festival is already way over and in the red, as always, it seems. So many good ideas and never any money - the story of our life, eh?
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And while it was off, I took it, like a good Pizza Pirate would.
And sadly, I can't think of a pizza joke that works a hat into it. Anyone? Beuller? Beuller?
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It's a pizza paddle, Cascabel. Thought you would have recognized it.
As used by Italian pirates, no doubt !!!!
;) >>>>> Cascabel
I can see the book now - Peter and the Pizza Pirates...
Searching for dough on the Seven Cheese...
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It's a pizza paddle, Cascabel. Thought you would have recognized it.
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Given regulations, it's probably more restrictive today. A tavern in Washington State, for instance cannot serve hard liquor, only beer and wine. A restaurant lounge can serve anything, but you have to serve food in order to serve hard liquor. I would agree with Mission, you carried what your customers wanted and what you could lay your hands on. Availability was probably the biggest determinant, particularly in the Caribbean.
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Thank you sir. It will be much easier to create the Wanted For Pyracy posters for Duval, now.
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I need to stop in and see you. I have been looking for a new belt. I love the one the Jekyll the Hidesmith made me some years ago, but want to have a second belt as well. We'll talk.
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dear me, first in the list is....make it to pip!
-make earlier kit...because i MUST go to searl's raid cant stand to miss it....
-finish my 1704 marine coat and hat(the rest is done yyaaayyy) for MTA (though i may be the only marine lolololol)
-get bandolier and charges
-make a tool chest for all my new rigging tools. make chests for camp supplies
-get a rreeaalll tent and hammock to hang in it
-gather camp accessories so i dont starve.....and so camp looks "better"
- finish living history rigging demo
-sew more clothes in general
wow that's actually not that much physically....though financially........
You will love Searles. I wish I could remember who made my chargers. Shay and I have the same ones. I'm going to try to make it back to Searles next year. Enjoyed my time there.
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She would have too.
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After five years of anxious waiting, I'm proud to announce that this year's championships actually have a trophy for first place and medals for 2nd and 3rd. And you get to keep it!
The same is true of the inaugural Tall Tales Competition and Freestyle Tall Tales Competition.
I know, I know, this is beginning to look a bit legit.
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What a great time at the Pirate Gathering. It was great seeing everyone again at, as Caribbean Pearl put it, Mini PiP. I had the pleasure of driving Powderkeg up to St. A to meet up with Michael and Jamaica. His stories were amazing. Everyone should get to know him - a huge resource of information on cannons and gunpowder. Love him! Now I want one of his cannons. :)
Fortunately, they will be Cyren's and my guest for Thanksgiving so maybe I can talk him into bringing one of his cannons off so we can rack it off on the beach and demonstrate them to you all on video.
The rest of the festival was great... good friends, good beer, lots of time jamming with other musicians and singing my favorites over with the Pirates of the Treasure Coast folks and in the tent. Never even managed to make it over to the period camping - just too much to see and do on the field. Perhaps next year. But got to meet some of my favorite campers on the field, including Jeff and Melissa. Good seeing them again.
Thanks to the organizers, especially Mia and gang. Well done and a big "five cutlasses up" as a rating. Beween the Gathering, Stuart, Searle's, John Levique, Ft. Myers, Amelia Island and of course, Key West, Florida is certainly a great place to be for pirootin'.
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I hope to finally get the presentation I did at PyrateCon 1 on Port Royal narrated and up on a site for others to see. Just got a Snowball mike to do the recording. So, that's on the list.
Second is to get my nautical music in order. Would like to add a new song every two weeks over the winter. And, perhaps, get the band to finally do a CD.
That should keep me busy enough. I also have a couple stage shows to write for next year's festival season.
Glad I don't have any sewing to add to my list for a change.
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That is worth every penny and then some. Wish I had a few extra bucks right now.
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Looks like I am repeating information that was previously posted but I am leaving this post anyway.
Please correct me if I am wrong but I believe that water was often undrinkable in cities. Cider was used by many. Assuming that they were using hard cider it is likely that tolerance would been high.
The idea that water carried disease wasn't really known about until the mid 19thC when some chappie in London, who's name I forget, logged the cases of cholera on a map and noticed that they centred on a communal pump. The miasma smell basically is where folks though sickness came from hence pomanders to sniff to ward off disease and the strange beaky costumes of plague doctors
At least in Port Royal (late 17th century), it was believed that the drinking water in the town carried the flux. "Relatively good water was fetched by wherry and canoe in great casks from the mouth of the Rio Cobre, but this too was suspect, at least to Dr. Trapham.
"Many of the inhabitants of Port Royal in fact never touched the stuff, preferring to quench their thirst among the wide variety of stronger drinks available in town. Wines were abundant and relatively cheap, especially those from Madeira; there is also a wide range of beers. George Ellwood wrote that "our drink is chiefly Madeira wine, lemmonadoes, punch and brandy; for cool drinks moddy wee have made of potatoes, cocao-drink, sugar drinke and rap made of molassis."
So the people of Port Royal certainly suspected the water as newcomers who drank the water often had the flux. It was a newcomer's disease and the people thought it to be from the water.
Oh, and this book is finally available for a wider audience. If you ever wanted to know about Port Royal, this is the best work I've ever found and is cross referenced well. Covers the topography, the life of residents, shipping, commerce, layout of the town, and later the town's second life as a Navy installation.
This is where the quote from above comes:
Beats paying the $40 I shelled out for it. :)
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I agree Hawkyns with the eye tainted by modern times. For example, that much cider would be nothing to someone in Port Royal in the late 17th Century. Even the children in town drank beer instead of the water because 1), it had to all be ferried in from the rivers across the bay and 2), it was believed that some of the maladies were caused by the water. So imagine the tolerance levels of alcohol in such an environment. Just to get a buzz would take a fairly good intake of alcohol. And, as we know, when vast amounts of alcohol are introduced, crazy things start to happen, even today. And even today (at least in the places I've been over the years), I've seen more than my share of fights, all out brawls, breasts and penises exposed, vomiting, sex in the bathrooms and several times in the bar itself, and chairs and bottles broken. Why would we think it would be any different back then? Come to think of it, man I've been to some great taverns in my time.
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Best of the community festivals is Bodden Town. The supposed pirate caves nearby are kind of cheeky. And you can't go to Cayman without going to Hell.
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No, it's Key West. The non-discrimination capital of the world. Let it all hang out at the Garden of Eden... wait, that didn't come out right.
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Thank you for sharing these with us. It is greatly appreciated.
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I actually just found the perfect flag for that about two minute ago. Got it from a brewery up in Seattle years ago. A skull and crossbones wearing a santa hat.
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Wow! That is one cool statistic. Thanks for sharing that. It is truly becoming "the" event to go to domestically, and now it looks increasingly, internationally.
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The Garden of Eden is a clothing optional bar above the Bull & Whistle.
Approximately 150 to 200 pirates of all sizes and types, from historical to hysterical. The public - egad, there's never been an official, official count. But over the week of PiP, thousands. Depends on the day and the event. At the fort, Friday is slow compared to Saturday and Sunday. Add in a cruise ship, and things can get crazy fast. The new Pirates Village on the Truman Annex will add a lot of visibility to arriving cruise ships and the shuttle will certainly make it convenient to come over to the fort. Plus it has the best beach in KW. So, never know.
Last count I heard there was about a 100 re-enactors in the fort, then the rest of spread throughout the festival and either love hotels or are more loose on their interpretations of piracy.
All are welcome, as I said. My own crewe, I think we have 12 in attendance this year.
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I'll be there!
It will be good to see you again. Haven't sailed with the likes of you since Peanut Island if I recall. A couple of my mates press ganged me, so I will be there in all my former glory. Woohoo, I mean, Aye!
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Foxe,
I have resources that there were Irish in Jamaica. And there were Catholics. But I don't have any primary documentation there were Irish Catholics or even Catholic Irish.
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Aye, I do agree with the yer statement, sir. 'tis one of the best times to bid farewell to the season that sends those dreaded winds our way. 'course, I remember the year we were burning the flag as Oscar was whirling around in the seas just offshore. We almost had an unwelcomed guest.
Music in a Period Tavern
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The differences a baroque "guitar" and a modern guitar are many. I think this article really explains it well.
http://www3.uakron.edu/gfaa/stalking.html
Cuisto alluded to many of the differences and this article does a good job or going a step or two further. As any guitar player knows, there's a huge difference in playing an instrument with 10 gut strings and tied frets and a six string fretted instrument that is tuned in a standard tuning, which previous instruments didn't have the benefit of. It's akin to the differences in playing a tenor banjo and a plectrum. Very different animals with different results.