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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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October 2025

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Daughters of the American Revolution, South Carolina

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

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Joining the DAR book club to talk about Rebels at Sea

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November 2025

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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

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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

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March 2026

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The Society of the Cincinnati

March 10, 2026

6:30 PM

2118 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 

Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

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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

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April 2026

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The Wardroom Club

April 15, 2026

Time TBD

USCG Base, Boston

Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

PRIVATE EVENT

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May 2026

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Corinthian Yacht Club

May 28, 2026

7 PM

The Neck, Marblehead

PRIVATE EVENT

Talk on The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail

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June 2026

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Swampscott Public Library

June 18, 2026

6:30  PM

60 Burrill St.

Swampscott, MA

Talk on The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail

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July 2026

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Tales of Cape Cod

July 13, 2026

7 PM

Olde Colonial Courthouse

3046 Main Street in Barnstable Village

Talk on The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail

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October 2026

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Cape Cod Natural History Museum

October 10, 2026

1 PM

869 Main Street

Brewster, MA​

Talk on The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail

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