The Pirate Empire

The Successful Pyrate is a play by Charles Johnson. It was first performed 1712 and published 1713, and dealt with the life of the pirate ...

“A short life and a merry one,” was the call of many pirates. If you’ve read much of my writing, you know that I believe that many pirates...

Over and over I come back to the music that pirates in the Golden Age would have heard and sung. So much music has come and gone since 171...

         I’ve been going to the Port Washington Pirate Festival since its inception. It was my first ever Pirate event, and has done a l...

I was attending Port Washington Family Pirate Daze in Wisconsin over the weekend, and saw a flag I didn’t recognize, It was this o...

Sorry for the long hiatus. Sometimes, in spite of a firm commitment to piracy, the World just gets in the way. What have I been up to? ...

The image of a pirate haunt – or pirate nest, as they were sometimes called by royal authorities and customs officials, calls up images of ...