Shiver Me Timbers!

An Evening at the Seacoast Science Center Family Dinner

Thursday, October 22, 2015      5:30pm

This event is cancelled.

Cost:  $15 for SSC member adults, $8 for member children
          $18 non-member adults, $10 non-member children ages 3-12

Kindly purchase your tickets by October 18.

Hi thar buckos! Are you ready for a fun and somewhat spooky evening? Join us on Thursday, October 22nd for our annual Halloween-inspired dinner, where the whole family learns something new and the kiddos get to come as their favorite character, in costume. Adults are welcome join the fun and to come as their favorite pirate!

After a family-style pasta dinner, the whole family will set sail during the Golden Age of Piracy to learn about the reality of pirates via a distance learning program in our Gregg Interactive Learning Studio big screen, presented by the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, VA. Participants will be introduced to the stereotypical concepts of pirates and discuss where images of hooks, peg legs and eye patches originated. By examining such pirates as Edward Teach, otherwise known as Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and Calico Jack, students will learn about the lives of real pirates. You'll also find out about the seldom-heard-of female pirates, Mary Read and Anne Bonny. The program will conclude with a discussion about modern day pirates.

After the program with the Mariners' Museum, adults will join Captain Jacelyn Sparrow (a.k.a. SSC President Wendy Lull) for an account of The Ghost of Black Beard's Bride—the real story behind the famous ghost who haunts Appledore Island. Based on just enough research to be possible, this version combines enough fact to give a historian pause, and enough fiction to convince a lover of ghosts and pirates that tall tales of apparitions might just be based on fact.

While Captain Sparrow engages the adults, kids will learn more about pirates through fun, hands-on activities and stories. 

For more information, contact Ashley at a.stokes@seacentr.org or 603-436-8043, ext. 24.