Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

Blackbeard, Calico Jack, Bartholomew Roberts, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read loom large in pirate legend. But how much of what we think we know is fact? How much is fiction? Can we separate the two? This talk dives into the real lives of these eighteenth-century pirates, exploring who they were, how we know about them, and why their stories still capture our imaginations centuries later.