Eric Jay Dolin
Upcoming Speaking Engagements, and Book Signings
I have given about 400 talks and slide shows on a variety of my books. A partial list of the venues where I have spoken includes the following: American Museum of Natural History, Mystic Seaport, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Mount Vernon, Mariner's Museum and Park, Tenement Museum, South Street Seaport, National Archives, Politics & Prose Bookstore, Gret Lives Lecture Series at the University of Mary Washington, Porter Square Bookstore, Harvard Bookstore, Concord Bookshop, Larchmont Yacht Club, Nantucket Whaling Museum, Mississippi Book Festival, New Bedford Whaling Museum, Cape Cod Natural History Museum, Nantucket Atheneum, Yale University, House of Seven Gables, Boston Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, Concord Festival of Writers, Town Hall Seattle, Darien Library, Miami Book Festival, Lemuria Bookstore, Stoneridge Independent Living, Newbridge on the Charles Independent Living, Fishers Island Museum, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Wayland Library, Jamestown Public Library, Massachusetts Historical Society, Eldredge Public Library, Corinthian Yacht Club, Marblehead Museum, Essex Meadows Independent Living, Darien Sail & Power Squadron, Bath Maritime Museum, Hyannis Yacht Club, and scores of other libraries, museums, historical societies, and independent living facilities throughout New England and beyond.
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If you are interested in having me as a speaker for any of my books, please contact me via the contact form on this website (see tab above).
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September 2024​
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Saturday, September 14
9:30-10:30
In conversation with Hampton Sides (The Wide, Wide Sea), with me talking about Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
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Friends of the The Peabody Institute Library of Danvers
Tuesday, September 17
7 PM
Tapley Memorial Hall
13 Page St.
Danvers, MA
Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
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Wednesday, September 18
6:30 PM
It will be held at the Sterling Senior Center
36 Muddy Pond Road
Sterling, MA
Talk on Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World​
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Thursday, September 26
7 PM
26 North Rd.
Jamestown, RI
Talk on Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
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Saturday, September 28
2 PM
Wellesley Free Public Library
530 Washington St.
Wellesley, MA
Talk on Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
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Friends of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse and
East Providence Public Library
Monday, September 30
6:30 PM
Talk will be at the Weaver Library
41 Grove Ave.
East Providence
Talk on Brilliant Beacons: History of the American Lighthouse
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October 2024
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Nantucket Historical Association (Whaling Museum)
Wednesday, October 9
5:30 PM
Whaling Museum
Nantucket, MA
Talk on Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
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China Symposium at Governor's Academy
Monday, October 28,
Newburry, Massachusetts
Details to come
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November 2024
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Americana Lecture
Sunday, November 3
3 PM
8 Chestnut Street
Salem, MA
Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
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Dartmouth Historical and Arts Society
Sunday, November 10
2 PM
Talk at the North Dartmouth Library
211 Cross Rd
Dartmouth, MA
Talk on Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
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Thursday, November 14
7 PM
100 Museum Drive
Newport News, VA
Talk on Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
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Tuesday, November 26
7 PM
McGinty Room
Foxborough Police Department
8 Chestnut St.
Foxborough, MA
Talk on Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
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December 2024
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Society of Colonial Wars in Rhode Island
Tuesday, December 3
6:30 PM
Private Event
The Hope Club
Providence, RI
Talk on Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
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Sunday, December 7
10-2 PM
25 Water St.
Newburyport, MA
This is a book signing, along with other maritime authors, and there will a few of my titles available
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January 2025
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Tuesday, January 7
1:30 PM
27 Washington St.
Wellesley, MA
Talk on Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
March 2025
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Jewish Community Center of the North Shore
Sunday, March 2, 2025
11 AM
Bagels will be served!
4 Community Road
Marblehead, MA
Talk on Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
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Andover Center for History and Culture
Thursday, March 27
6:30 PM
97 Main Street
Andover, MA
Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
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April 2025
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Saturday, April 26, 2025
610 Mani Street
Reading, MA
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May 2025
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Boston Sons of the American Revolution
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Time TBD
New England Historic Genealogical Society
97 Newbury St.
Boston, MA
Talk on Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
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June 2025
Sunday, June 1, 2025
1 PM
137 Boston Neck Road
Narragansett, RI
Talk on
Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
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July 2025
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The Marblehead Festival of the Arts (the literary part)
Saturday, July 5, 2025
2:30 PM
Unitarian Universalist Church of Marblehead
28 Mugford Street
Marblehead, MA
Talk moderated by Julianna Thibodeaux on research as prelude to writing
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Saturday, July 26, 2025
1 PM
625 Williams Street
New London, CT
Talk on When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
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November 2025
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Thursday, November 6, 2025
Time TBD
American Legion
Manchester, MA
Talk on Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
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