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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. 

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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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Mississippi Book Festival

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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Danvers Historical Society &

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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Conant Public Library

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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Jamestown Philomenian Library

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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Wellesley Historical Society

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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Hamilton Hall

American 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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Mariner's Museum and Park

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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Foxborough Historical Society

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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January 2025

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Waterstones at Wellesley

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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Norwell Public Library

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

6:30 PM

Norwell Public Library

64 South Street

Norwell, MA 

Talk on Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

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April 2025

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Manchester Harbor Boat Club

Thursday, April 3, 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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