top of page
Blue Skies

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. 

​

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).

​

​​​​

May 2025

​

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

​

​

June 2025

The Dunes Club

Sunday, June 1, 2025

1 PM

137 Boston Neck Road
Narragansett, RI 

Talk on 

Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

​​

​

July 2025

​

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

​

​Lyman Allyn Art Museum

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

​​​​

October 2025

​

Daughters of the American Revolution, South Carolina

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

11

Joining the DAR book club to talk about Rebels at Sea

​

November 2025

​

Manchester Harbor Boat Club

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

​​

National Society DAR, Roger Sherman Chapter

Saturday, November 8, 2025

1 PM

Talk at the New Milford Public Library

24 Main Street
New Milford, CT

Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

​​

​

March 2026

​

Historical Society of Old Yarmouth

March 29, 2026

2 PM

At the Great Hall of the Cultural Center of Cape Cod in South Yarmouth

307 Old Main St., South Yarmouth, MA

Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

​

April 2026

​

The Wardroom Club

April 15, 2026

Time TBD

USCG Base, Boston

Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

PRIVATE EVENT

​

  • Facebook Social Icon
  • goodreads
bottom of page