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Harbour Island and Maritime Life in the 17-19th Century Bahamas at next Bahamas Historical Society meeting, September 29th
By Jim Lawlor, BHS
Sep 24, 2011 - 9:23:53 AM
Nassau,
Bahamas - The Bahamas Historical Society presents a talk with Heather
Hatch on the
Harbour Island and Maritime Life in the 17-19th Century on
September 29th, 2011.
This will be the first talk of the new season and a topic pursued in her upcoming PhD thesis.
The
museum reopens that same day.
Heather Hatch
is a PhD student in the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University.
She acquired her BA in Anthropology at the University
of New Brunswick in her hometown Fredericton, NB, Canada, and holds MAs in European Historical
Archaeology from the University of
Sheffield (Sheffield,
UK), and Maritime
History from the East Carolina University
(Greenville, North Carolina, USA).
Her interests are focused on the maritime communities, and the relationship
between culture, identity, and the environment. Both of her MA degrees
focused on researching 18th century piracy, examining pirate
flag symbolism as an expression of group identity, and searching for
markers of pirate identity at previously excavated archaeological sites.
Her present research focuses on understanding the nature of maritime
identity, or maritimity, and examining whether this can be seen in the
archaeological record.
The Bahamas Historical Society (BHS)
is
a non-profit organization dedicated to stimulating interest in Bahamian
History and to the collection and preservation of material relating
thereto. Its Headquarters, the former IODE Hall, was a gift from the
Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (IODE). BHS is on Shirley
Street and Elizabeth Avenue in Nassau.
www.bahamashistoricalsociety.
com
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