Catherine and I are now happily back in DC after several long weeks of research travel. We visited the Rare Books Department of the Boston Public Library as well as the G.W. Blunt White Library at Mystic Seaport's Museum of America and the Sea in Mystic, CT, and interviewed David Moore, an expert on Blackbeard and nautical archaeologist with the North Carolina Maritime Museum who is currently excavating Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge in Beaufort, North Carolina. While in North Carolina, we also delighted in our visit to the Knights of the Black Flag exhibit at the North Carolina History Museum, where we discovered just how much we have learned about pirates, demonstrated an uncanny ability to correctly identify the source of a good 80% of the pirate images used in the exhibits, and conducted important pirate research in the hands-on dress-up-like-a-pirate-and-play-on-the-model-pirate-ship section. Rather than post an extensive run-down* of the results of our whirlwind of archival work (we're only just starting to organize, analyze, categorize, et ceterize our veritable library of reading notes right now), I'll post a series of highlights from my findings and some pictures to illustrate them (click here to see photos from our Boston and Mystic trips and here for photos from North Carolina).
*Update: It appears that my attempted series of highlights predictably and more closely resembles an extensive run-down. Apologies.
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