Featured Speaker:

Susan B.M. Langley, PHD

State Underwater Archaeologist

Maryland Historical Trust/MD SHPO

 “Pirates and Privateers on the Chesapeake”

Beyond the rumored appearances of the likes of Blackbeard, the Chesapeake has witnessed visits from even more interesting buccaneers.Among the panoply of rascals, cutthroats and criminals were scientists, politicians, and naturalists.Join us to learn who were motivated by religion and who by politics; who was a surgeon, an anthropologist and the founder of one of the most respectable colleges on the East Coast, and who guided and influenced geographers, naturalists, explorers, and even the Royal and American Navies for centuries