Unearth a Story: Pirates Hunting Sunken Treasure
How a Florida Shipwreck Sparked the Golden Age of Piracy
Tuesday, June 09
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Sunrise Dan Pearl Branch
Meeting RoomPirates - what sparked fiction and our notion of pirates, a Spanish shipwreck in the Florida Straits? Join us and find out the origin story. This is a viewing of an online lecture.
The golden age of piracy—the time when notorious cutthroats like Blackbeard, Sam Bellamy, and Bartholomew Roberts sailed—began in Florida with a shipwreck. Caught by a hurricane, the 1715 Spanish treasure fleet sank in the Florida Straits. When a salvage operation began, British pirates from Jamaica swooped in and robbed the Spanish on the beach. This program examines the wave of piracy that followed and how it provided inspiration for countless works of fiction and shaped modern days ideas of pirates. Presented by David Head of Florida Talks: Florida Humanities Speakers Bureau.
This is a viewing of an online lecture. Candy bars, chips, & sodas available for purchase for $1 each by the Friends of the Library.
A Service of the Broward County Board of County Commissioners
AGE GROUP: | Teens | New Adults | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Summer Learning Program | Discussion/Lecture | Arts & Cultural |
TAGS: | Summer Learning Program |
Sunrise Dan Pearl Branch
| Mon, Jun 22 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Tue, Jun 23 | 12:00PM to 8:00PM |
| Wed, Jun 24 | 12:00PM to 8:00PM |
| Thu, Jun 25 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Fri, Jun 26 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sat, Jun 27 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sun, Jun 28 | Closed |

