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Summer at the Great Lakes

A History of Piracy on the Great Lakes

A speaker from the National Museum of the Great Lakes will present a historical examination of piracy. No parrots or peg legs included but a healthy dose of thievery, mutiny, and other unsavory tales.

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Celebrate Oceans of Possibilities Summer Reading theme with a local connection: the Great Lakes!

Topics, speakers, and times are below:

12 pm: A History of Piracy on the Great Lakes, Auditorium. A speaker from the National Museum of the Great Lakes will present a historical examination of piracy. No parrots or peg legs included but a healthy dose of thievery, mutiny, and other unsavory tales.

1 pm: Paranormal Great Lakes, Auditorium. Local author Charles Cassady, Jr. will share fantastic sailors' tales, mysteries, and legends of the five majestic freshwater seas. Presented for the ghost-buster, skeptic, or the just plain curious.

2 pm: The Flood of 1913, Library Park Amphitheater. A park ranger from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and volunteer actors will recount real-life tales of one of the worst natural disasters the state has ever seen.

For questions or additional information please contact the Business, Government & Science desk at 330.643.9020 or stdiv@akronlibrary.org.

For more assistance or further reading, check out these resources:

• "Lake Erie: Murder and Mayhem" by Wendy Kolie (Nonfiction)
• "The Pirate World: A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers" by Angus Konstam (Nonfiction)
• "The Chocolate Pirate Plot" by JoAnn Carl (Cozy Mystery)

[Image used is of Great Lakes Pirate Captain Dan Seavey near the end of his career in 1920.]

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