Author Archive: Lorren West

by Mys­tic Sea­port Muse­um Attach­ments Live Local Oaks pre­serve his­tor­i­cal Thanks­giv­ing Mayflower ship II (638 kB)

On the evening of Octo­ber 11, 1973, 42-year-old Charles Hick­son and 19-year-old Calvin Park­er told the Jack­son Coun­ty, Mis­sis­sip­pi Sher­if­f’s office they were fish­ing off a pier on the west bank of the Pascagoula Riv­er in Mis­sis­sip­pi when they heard…
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Six Skele­tons Found in Wreck of 18th-Cen­tu­ry Pirate Ship Sunk Off Cape Cod The “Why­dah” sank off the coast of Mass­a­chu­setts in 1717, killing all but two peo­ple on board

Sub­mit­ted by Per­ry A. Thomp­son, Jr. The “Live Oak­ers” were skilled mas­ter ship car­pen­ters who trav­eled in groups, bring­ing their fam­i­lies along and liv­ing in select­ed areas of live oak growth, hew­ing the live oak to spec­i­fi­ca­tions for the ships fram­ing.…
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