Mystic Seaport's 34th Annual Symposium "MUSIC OF THE SEA" Sponsored by Mystic Seaport Museum, the United States Coast Guard Academy, and the University of Connecticut at Avery Point June 7 & 8, 2013 Friday, June 7, United States Coast Guard Academy, McAllister Hall Auditorium, Engineering Bldg 9:00 am Coffee and Morning Refreshments 9:20 am Welcome 9:30 am William Dunlap, "From Birkenhead to Cherbourg—The Cruise of the Alabama in Lyric, Lore, & Law" 10:15 am April Gant, "I Am the Pirate of the Isles: The Heroic Pirate in Popular Songs of the Whaling Era" 11:15 am Paul Mercer, "'Of Dartmoor Prison, I'll Tell All I Can': The Prison Songbook of Thomas B. Mott, 1814-1815: Lunch 1:35 pm Jon Campbell, "The Astoria Fisher Poets Gathering" 2:20 pm Amanda Daly Berman, "Progenitors, Progress, and Preservation: Cultural and Musical Connections amongst Cape Breton and its Boston Diaspora" Saturday, June 8, Mystic Seaport Museum, Greenmanville Church 9:30 am Marti Klein, "Temporary Mobility, Travel Narratives, and the 'Pull' of the Sea" 10:15 am Anita Gomez, "Jigs, Buck Dances, and Sounding the Deck in African American Dance" 11:15 am Aaron Walker, "Reenacting the Music of Williamsburg: The Shanties of the Georgia Sea Island Singers" Please join us at Mystic Seaport for the rest of the weekend for the Sea Music Festival!
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