This week, a swashbuckling weekend on Maryland's eastern shore sends Jay Lloyd on a quest to learn about pirate reënactors and their travels.
by KYW's Jay Lloyd
There were buccaneers wherever you looked in Rock Hall, Maryland, recently. That mirrored pirate festivals from Maine to Florida. Music, encampments, swordplay, flintlocks, and grog!
So how do you join a crew?
"They can come out to an event like this and stay with us and have a good time.”
That’s Kenny Miller, of the Baltimore Skullduggery Crew, one of many in the region.
(Miller:) “If they like it, they can can begin to purchase what they need -- what we call 'garb.' ”
And what garb! Take the lady corsair known as Anna, in stunning black.
(Anna:) “You are looking at, from head to toe, $400.”
But Anna is not exactly period correct:
“I’m more what you would call a Hollywood pirate.”
Want to join a crew? Upcoming pirate weekends are as close as Marcus Hook, Barnegat, and Tom’s River, NJ. For more info check out www.noquartergiven.net.
(Photos by KYW's Jay Lloyd)
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