My mother has a cousin whose last name is Levasseur who lives in Massachusetts. When she half-jokingly asked if they were by chance related to the pirate Le Vasseur, he said, "Well yeah actually we are." We're currently trying to acquire a complete family tree. Granted, I can't claim blood lineage given that it's a connection by marriage. Still, you never know where weird personal connections come from.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
There Be Pirates in The Family
One of Bellamy's pirate buddies was a Frenchmen named Olivier Le Vasseur, more popularly known as "La Buse" (the buzzard). The two made trips between New England and the Virgin Islands before La Buse decided to go off and sail with Chris Moody.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Just Keep Writing, Just Keep Writing*
No ,I haven't disappeared, but I am in the final push to finishing the first draft of this chapter. That kind of writing leaves me a bit too wrung out for blogging.
After I send the draft off, and take a brief break from all things academic, I'm moving on to the fun phase of the dissertation...
...PIRATES!
If you haven't seen last week's New Yorker yet, it has a review of a new book on the economics of piracy. That, J.F. Cooper's The Rover, and Marcus Rediker's Between the Devil and The Deep Blue Sea will constitute the next series of posts in the not-so-distant future.
Before that, I still have 10-15 pages of writing to go. Sigh. Back to Delany and Douglass' maritime narratives.
*Apologies to both Pixar and Spencer Keralis
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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