by Kate Dolan | Dec 19, 2017 | Articles, Holidays, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History, Pirates and the Caribbean, Travel
This year everyone may be trying to find the perfect ugly Christmas sweater, but popular winter fashions certainly change with time. One winter about 150 years ago, instead of ugly Christmas sweaters or Santa hats, the women of Key West all wanted red shawls. At that...
by Kate Dolan | Jan 11, 2013 | Articles, Kate Dolan, Latest Posts, Living History, Pirates and the Caribbean
The Turks and Caicos National Museum looks like a little old house because that’s what it is. But the displays inside don’t have much to do with the building or the people who lived there or even life on the islands in general. Most of the museum is devoted to the...
by Kate Dolan | Sep 19, 2011 | Latest Posts, Living History, Pirates and the Caribbean
A friend just wished everyone a “Happy Talk like a Pirate Day” on Facebook and since it’s too early to start on the rum (never a good idea before jump rope practice), I thought I’d write about this strange phenomenon that proves once again, just how much spare time we...
by Kate Dolan | May 31, 2011 | Latest Posts, Living History, Pirates and the Caribbean
I haven’t seen the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie yet but I understand that Blackbeard makes an appearance, so I decided to write a few words about that wild and crazy guy. I do think he was crazy and very easily bored, so probably not a very happy guy at all. He...
by Kate Dolan | Feb 1, 2011 | Latest Posts, Living History, Pirates and the Caribbean
Prisons are not usually housed in pink octagonal buildings, at least not anymore. But one of the oldest public buildings in Nassau, on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, is a three- story pink octagonal building that was built as a jail. The building was...
by Kate Dolan | Nov 5, 2010 | Living History, Pirates and the Caribbean
When I was in St. Thomas recently, I visited the historical complex of “Blackbeard’s Castle,” which is right in the middle of downtown Charlotte Amalie. There’s no castle and very little having to do with Blackbeard, but that doesn’t mean...
