Dutchman

looks like gertie hit my thought about the hole not being bored. An interesting twist on things though. New York city's finest tried to hook one of our folks up a couple of years ago at a tourism convention being worked. Seems a 67cal flint lock pistol is considered a sawed off shotgun!

well, tis over. we had a great event! despite the light crowd, we brought in some pennies and gained new members. This includes two new corporate sponsors, Principal Advantage a political work group, and the Virginia Port Authority, yes the ports officially recognize us now! We look forward to working with these groups in the future and thank them for their support! At last nights Blackbeard's Crew meeting, the crew presented us with a donation from the last six months of events! I'll be getting the Blog up again this weekend with updates on the boat. Thanks also go to you, our Pub family for your support from afar. We have friends up and down the coast and across the country to California with many points in between. Our big push is to be floating by 2012 and one of my greatest expectations is to welcome all aboard. HUZZAH!

ahoy pub members, CSF is holding a corporate meet and greet on Wednesday, Dec 8th 530-730 at Half Moone terminal in Norfolk. We encourage anyone in the area who is interested in our project and becoming a member to stop by. The flier is available on our blog: http://colonialseaportfoundation.blogspot.com/ If you are close by and would like to attend, please RSVP on facebook or send me a message via the pub. The tickets cost $50. This includes diner and covers your annual membership dues. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125746300820661 Anyone who wishes to become a member can also sigh up through paypal on our website. www.colonialseaport.org CSF's goal is to bring east coast maritime living history enthusiasts and organizations together through Luna, our floating class room under construction. The more folks we have involved, the sooner we can be on the water bringing this great resource to the public. We are also looking for a ride from St. Augustine Fla. to Hampton Va. for a new to us 50 foot spar, which will be our new bowsprit and boom. If anyone has any trucking company contacts that might not mind sending it up on top of a trailer or deadhead trip, please let us know. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.. The Colonial Seaport Foundation is approved by the IRS as a 501c3 non-profit organization. Donations are tax exempt to the full extent of the law.

if the golf bag is too short, try a snow ski bag.

well shit! I first met joe a few years ago when we worked together on the John Adams miniseries. We stayed in touch and usually saw each other a few times a year. He would always take a few minutes to talk.God speed shipmate.

Salter laid to rest — temporarily By JONATHAN CLAYBORNE Washington Daily News jonathan@wdnweb.com Staff Writer Published: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 2:16 AM EDT The burial ceremony was conducted with all the usual solemnity due an occasion that marks the passing of a loved one. The key difference was this loved one didn’t die a few days ago — he passed away in January 1735. Remains believed to be those of colonial-era cooper, merchant, assemblyman — and, perhaps, Blackbeard the pirate’s crewman — Edward Salter were reinterred Sunday afternoon in Beaufort County. Gathered before the reburial at Washington’s Paul Funeral Home, with a dozen or so known Salter heirs and others, Father Eric Zubler of Bath’s St. Thomas Episcopal Church said a prayer. “May angels surround him and saints welcome him in peace,” Zubler said of Salter. Shortly after the prayer, the remains were transported by hearse to the burial site. At the graveside, Zubler and the heirs tossed handfuls of dirt on top of the coffin, which was made of Beaufort County pine and donated by Impressions Marketing Group of Washington. The funeral was donated by Paul Funeral Home. As the heirs sat under a funeral tent at the graveside, Zubler approached them to say that, in looking at them, he saw family members who might not have come together but for the rediscovery of Salter’s remains. “For you all are related to a great person, a colonial personage, Edward Salter,” he said, “and that is something to celebrate.” Bible verses were read by Tom Thompson, Beaufort County’s chief economic developer, and one of the heirs, the Rev. John Stephen Park of Fort Wayne, Ind. Kevin Duffus, a Raleigh researcher and historian who speaks for the heirs, gave a eulogy, the coffin before him draped in a British flag of the colonies. “Our nation was built upon the dreams, and bones, of our ancestors,” Duffus said. “Our freedom, our security and the comforts of life we enjoy today, are due in large measure to the forgotten grandfathers of our nation, men such as Edward Salter of Bath. Their final resting places must always be honored, protected and preserved as hallowed ground. Their mortal remains are sacred.” The remains were disinterred from a brick-lined tomb roughly a quarter-century ago as part of archaeological investigation into the Beasley Point area in Bath. The investigation was initiated after Texasgulf Chemical Co. hatched plans to build a bulkhead on the property. Begun in 1985, the investigation was ended in 1986, according to county officials. Salter’s remains were tucked away in a state storage facility for years, until a group of heirs and history buffs successfully petitioned the court to have the bones returned to Beaufort County. Now that the bones have gone back to ground, at least for a while, the heirs and county officials are urging PotashCorp, Texasgulf’s successor corporation, to allow Salter to be permanently reinterred on the Beasley Point land, which the company owns. Toward that end, one of the descendants will meet with PotashCorp officials Thursday, Duffus related after Sunday’s ceremony. Before the ceremony, several of Salter’s heirs were overheard expressing their collective wish that the remains be reburied at Beasley Point, exactly where they were unearthed, and that the family and the public be permitted to visit the grave. In his eulogy, Duffus referred to the Pamlico River, which has sustained life here for centuries, and to Salter, whose life’s journey ended on Bath Creek. “What debt might we owe this man who established his home near the banks of the ancient Pamlico three centuries ago?” he asked. “How can we possibly begin to comprehend and appreciate the significance of Edward Salter’s life, and his contribution to the community we live in today? Oh, how things have changed since this man walked these shores.”

well, it happened. We must now refer to Israel Cross as CAPT. CROSS!!! Congrats Mr. Cross. Job well done. He has just passed his Coast Guard 100 ton course! HUZZAH!!!!

hope to see you there. there is talk of a get together at howards. i think the plan is to watch a few blackbeard movies.

Drum roll please............... congrats to mad pete for the foundation goody bag. Madpete, please pm your shipping info to me. -dutch

edit* here is a direct link, has pictures. http://www.wdnweb.com/articles/2010/10/04/news/doc4ca7c69fa381e114928748.txt Salters remains returned to Beaufort County By BETTY MITCHELL GRAY Staff Writer Published: Sunday, October 3, 2010 2:15 AM EDT One day after a historic deluge hit Beaufort County, history of another kind was made in a quiet ceremony with the arrival of the remains in Washington of a man believed to have been a member of Blackbeards pirate crew. At about 8 p.m. Friday, a pine coffin carrying the remains of pirate-turned-wealthy-Bath-merchant Edward Salter was carried into Paul Funeral Home by five members of the Beaufort County Committee of 100 and the historian who fought for more than a year for their return. This could be a very important day for Beaufort County, said Tom Richter, mayor of Washington Park and chairman of the Committee of 100. In 10 years. we could look back on this day as a part of the history of the county. Edward Salter was a terrifically important person to Beaufort County when he was alive, and his kin were very important to North Carolina, Richter said. He was part of an extraordinary family. Others there agreed with Richter. This is a piece of history for sure, said Dick Barber, a local businessman who helped carry Salters coffin. The brief ceremony marked the return of Salters remains to Beaufort County for the first time in nearly 25 years. His remains will be kept at Paul Funeral Home until later this month when they will be temporarily interred in an undisclosed location while their final resting spot is determined, according to Raleigh researcher and author Kevin Duffus, whose longtime interest in the history of eastern North Carolina has helped determine their fate. Duffus cause was supported by the Committee of 100, whose members have said they not only value Salters contribution to Beaufort County but believe that promoting the countys history will spur economic development. Duffus believes that this same Edward Salter, a barrel-maker who died in 1735, may have been a member of Blackbeards pirate crew who returned to settle in Bath. Salter went on to become a warden of St. Thomas Parish and an assemblyman representing Beaufort County in 1731. Salter once owned a plantation along Beasley Point, where the remains were unearthed in 1986 as part of a state-led archaeological investigation that preceded the bulkheading of the property. The bones ended up in Raleigh after what was then TexasGulf asked for permission to install the bulkhead on the west bank of Bath Creek. They were sent to the Smithsonian Institutions National Museum of Natural History for evaluation after a ruling earlier this year by Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons. The Smithsonian is expected to announce its complete findings later this year, Duffus said Friday. Salters remains were brought back to eastern North Carolina from Washington, D.C., by Duffus and were met near the Old Ford community with a hearse from Paul Funeral Home. They were transferred to a pine coffin built by Impressions Marketing Group to resemble an 18th-century coffin similar to the one originally used to bury Salter. The remains were accompanied the final 22 miles to Washington by Duffus and Paul Funeral Home employees Derik Davis and Lawrence Mallard. When we crossed the Beaufort County line, I said, Mr. Salter, you are home, Duffus said Friday night. This is an important step in fulfilling Mr. Salters dying wish of being decently interred. Beaufort County native Davis said he was honored to participate in Salters return. I grew up hearing about Blackbeard, and I could never have imagined that at some point I would be bringing into town the bones of a man who was a member of his crew, said Davis. It feels wonderful to think that I can be a part of something that took place hundreds of years ago on the soil where I live. Bobby Hodges, president of Paul Funeral Home, also said he was proud to play a part in the historic moment. The company has donated its time with the internment of Salters remains. Any time you can help promote the heritage of your community, you are proud to do so, he said. Salters court-recognized heirs have said they want the remains to be returned to the spot where they were unearthed Baths Beasley Point, a site owned by PotashCorp, which has a phosphate-mining operation near Aurora. In addition to its widely recognized colonial-era components, some historians and archaeologists contend Beasley Point is the most likely candidate for the Secotan Indian village painted by English watercolorist John White on a 1585 expedition. Salters heirs are expected to meet with PotashCorp officials later this month when they will be in Beaufort County for the temporary burial of their ancestor.

yup, when we were aboard this summer, she was for sale. nonprofits can sell off their assets to offset collections due. In order to be selling their principal asset, an organization normally wants out completely but I don't know if that is the case for Bounty.

@hook, yup the fluted ones are just a bit smaller. We don't have big uns in, but will shortly and we'll let ya know when we get the paypal set up for these.

ok lilly, we don't have any of the larger on hand, well make sure they are on the order for you. they are $16 each.

OK, here's what we got- straight from Hatchet Meg, our marketing and merchandise guru. Eight of the small ones, that's the one on the left with the fluted top. In all fairness, the order goes to gunner, dorrian who contacted me via pm, josephine, and jas. hook. They are $20 each which covers shipping. sorry, we have to make sure these are packed well. $15 if you catch us at an event. I'll take the orders from the top of the list and filter down until were out. Just let me know who is interested, then we'll ad requests onto the next order, which should be to us around the end of October. Paypal will be the preferred payment, but give us a day or two to get them into the system.

so ye want three then. one for you, one for her, and a spare in case she pokes you again and ye drop it. not a problem.

pretty aren't they! Hook, thank you for the order. I'll get onto the paypal account and get it right out. We're still toying with the mugs marketing. They will be for sale, but we are also going to use them as membership level giveaways. The first two dozen sold as soon as they arrived. More will be on the way to us soon though. I didn't know there would be that much interest! I think the prices were 15 for the small and 16 for the large or 16 and 18. I'm not sure. We also have a design tweak that we're looking at.

new marketing goodies!!!!!! thanks to hatchet meg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

foxe, info forwarded to kevin. no problems.

hey gang, scurvy made his mark, but don't let that stop folks from contributing. We need to stomp the roller derby queens! Keeping my end of the deal below are the pub folks that I can readily identify. If I missed you, please add yourself in. Keep the donations flowing! M.A.d'Dogge's Brother and the M.A.d'Dogge (sea Witch) iron jon mad Pete Captain Robert Darksoul Leigh & Keith Collins Willoughby Caught Oderlesseye Bilgemunky.com

hey mates, just talked to scurvy. i'd like to sweeten the pot a bit for him. If he makes his $1000 goal, any pubster that donates through http://www.firstgiving.com/chrissuttle will have their name put in the hat for a goodie package drawing from the Colonial Seaport Foundation.