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Posted By: NOMADMan
15-May-14 - 09:29 PM
Thread Name: speakers at 2013 Mystic symposium
Subject: RE: speakers at 2013 Mystic symposium
The spacing will be a bit off, but here is the schedule - pasted from a Word document.

Regards,
John

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 Grant, "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"