Mark your Calender for 2019’s Events
4 years of
July 2019
Timber Gray Wolf
Star~Dust
Head of Operations Designer, photographer
Motivator
Elise W’nstrom Editor
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Ship's Cat While in many cultures, a black cat is considered unlucky, British and Irish sailors considered adopting a black “ship’s cat” because it would bring good luck. There is some logic to this belief: cats eat (or at least kill) rodents, which can damage ropes and stores of grain on board, and they are intelligent animals, a high level of care was directed toward them to keep them happy, and research has backed up this superstition. Evidence published in 2017 by a geneticist the University of Leuven shows that Egyptian cats spread their mitochondrial DNA through shipping lanes to medieval northern Europe. Preliminary results of that genetic study concluded that cats were also carried on trading ships to control rodents, and that practice was adopted by traders from other nations, including Vikings in northern Germany around the 8th to 11th centuries. Some sailors believed that polydactyl cats were better at catching pests,
possibly connected with the suggestion that extra digits give a polydactyl cat better balance, important when at sea. Cats were believed to have miraculous powers that could protect ships from dangerous weather. Another popular belief was that cats could start storms through magic stored in their tails. If a ship’s cat fell or was thrown overboard, it was thought that it would summon a terrible storm to sink the ship and that if the ship was able to survive, it would be cursed with nine years of bad luck. Other beliefs included: if a cat licked its fur against the grain, it meant a hailstorm was coming; if it sneezed it meant rain; and if it was frisky it meant wind
Aquired by the Aristi family in 1935 and has produced rum products since then in the Yucatan Peninsula. Ron Caribe rums are the highest of quality made in Mexico according to the Website. I’ll disagree with that I had one of the silver made in the same state from a different distillery that was much better, but couldn’t find it again to bring home. The Aristi family in that time has restored the 17th century hacienda to its original historic beauty in Mérida, Yucatan. 2 generations of dedicated
family and loyal employees devote their time and lives to production of the rums and Mayan spirit liqueurs, internationally known, funny I’ve never heard of them but I’m only one person. They use the newest technologies and traditional principles perfected early in the 19th century. They use only select Mexican sugarcane grown on the estate Casa D’aristi owns that was founded by Francisco Montego in 1540. The Anéjo Superior Rum is aged in American oak barrels that once held American
bourbon. Then it is bottled at 80 proof and sold locally and overseas. If you’re in Illinois you might can find it there too. Pale gold in color with champagne highlights. The legs tend to linger at the crest line, but once they let go with large droplet headed legs leading the way ever so slowly travel down to the light golden spirit below.
photo. Dredmors Plunder on etsy for the very well put together side holster with leg strap and Gwen Wagner Small for the mermaids pendant among the treasure pile. Till tonight mates, make sure you bring along a designated driver to bring you home to ye ship. Down the hatch.
There’s almost a wine like nose similar to Pinót Grigio or Sauvignon Blanc with hints of oak. With the addition of a sliver of ice brought out vanilla and honey. The taste is something to be aquired I’m sure. Very dry like champagne but short in flavor. Peppery with vanilla and pineapple with a little burn in the throat, but even that disappears rapidly away. I was told that this is a very good rum and came highly recommended over the Ron Caribe silver rum from a local in Cozumel. So another review shall come to pass this eve on a more locally known brand. I’d like to mention appreciation for the following stores and individual for the decor in the Captain Jameson von Greywolfe
HMS Beagle was design started in 6th February 1817, and amended in coloured ink on 16th July 1817 with modifications to increase the height of the bulwarks. Then on 11th May 1820 from the Woolwich Dockyard on the River Thames. The HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop for the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class. The vessel, constructed at a cost of ÂŁ7,803/$8746.73 (ÂŁ613,000/$687139.29 in today's currency). That July when she was launched, she took part in a fleet review celebrating the coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom, and for that occasion is said to have been the first ship to sail completely under the old London Bridge. There was no immediate need for Beagle so she "lay in ordinary", moored afloat but without masts or rigging. She was then adapted as a
survey barque and took part in three survey expeditions. First Voyage (1826-1830) Captain Pringle Stokes was appointed captain of Beagle on 7th September 1825, and the ship was allocated to the surveying section of the Hydrographic Office. On 27th September 1825 Beagle docked at Woolwich for maintenance and minor upgrades for the coming voyage. Her guns were reduced from ten cannon to six and a mizzen mast was added to improve her handling, there by changing her from a brig to a bark (or barque) Beagle set sail from Plymouth on 22nd May 1826, accompanying the larger ship HMS Adventure on a hydrographic survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, under the overall command of the Australian Captain
Phillip Parker King, Commander and Surveyor. In late July, Captain Stoked fell into a deep depression that would soon be the end of him. After locking himself in his cabin for 14 days and getting over-excited for the next cruise. He had shot himself on the 2nd of August, passing away ten days later on the 12th of August 1828. Captain Parker King then replaced Stokes with the First Lieutenant of Beagle, Lieutenant William George Skyring as commander, and both ships sailed to Montevideo. On 13th October King sailed Adventure to Rio de Janeiro for refitting and provisions. During this work Rear Admiral Sir Robert Otway, commander in
chief of the South American station, arrived aboard HMS Ganges and announced his decision that Beagle was also to be brought to Montevideo for repairs, and that he intended to supersede Skyring. When Beagle arrived, Otway put the ship under the command of his aide, Flag Lieutenant Robert FitzRoy. The 23-year-old aristocrat FitzRoy proved an able commander and meticulous surveyor. In one incident a group of Fuegians stole a ship's boat, and FitzRoy took their families on board as hostages. Eventually he held two men, a girl and a boy, who was given the name of Jemmy Button, and these four native Fuegians were taken back with them when Beagle returned to England on 14 October 1830.
Second Voyage(1831-1836) Beagle was immediately taken into dock at Devonport for extensive rebuilding and refitting. As she required a new deck, FitzRoy had the upper-deck raised considerably, by 8 inches and 12 inches forward. The Cherokee-class ships had the reputation of being "coffin" brigs, which handled badly and were prone to sinking. Apart from increasing headroom below, the raised deck made Beagle less liable to topheaviness and possible capsize in heavy weather by reducing the volume of water that could collect on top of the upper deck, trapped aboard by the gunwales. Additional sheathing added to the hull added about seven tons to her burthen and perhaps fifteen to her displacement. The ship was one of the first to be fitted with the lightning conductor invented by William Snow Harris. FitzRoy spared no expense in her fitting out, which included 22 chronometers, and five examples of the Sympiesometer, a kind of mercury-free barometer patented by Alexander Adie which was favoured by FitzRoy as giving the accurate readings required by the Admiralty. To reduce magnetic interference with navigational instruments, FitzRoy proposed replacing the iron guns with brass guns, but the Admiralty turned this request down. (When the ship reached Rio de Janeiro in April 1832, he used his own funds for replacements: the ship now had a "sixpound boat-carronade" on a turntable on the
forecastle, two brass six-pound guns before the main-mast, and aft of it another four brass guns; two of these were nine-pound, and the other two six-pound.) Beagle was originally scheduled to leave on 24th October 1831, but because of delays in her preparations the departure was delayed until December. Setting forth on what was to become a ground-breaking scientific expedition she departed from Devonport on 10 December. Due to bad weather her first stop was just a few miles ahead, at Barn Pool, on the west side of Plymouth Sound. Beagle left anchorage from Barn Pool on 27 December, passing the nearby town of Plymouth. After completing extensive surveys in South America she returned via New Zealand, Sydney, Hobart Town (6 February 1836), to Falmouth, Cornwall, England, on 2 October 1836. Third Voyage (1837-1843) In the six months after returning from her second voyage, some light repairs were made and Beagle was commissioned to survey large parts of the coast of Australia under the command of Commander John Clements Wickham, They left Woolwich on 9th June 1837, towed by HM Steamer Boxer, and after reaching Plymouth spent the remainder of the month adjusting their instruments. They set off from Plymouth Sound on the morning of 5th July 1837, and sailed south with stops for observations at Tenerife, Bahia and Cape Town.
They reached the Swan River (modern Perth, Australia) on 15 November 1837. Their survey started with the western coast between there and the Fitzroy River, Western Australia, then surveyed both shores of the Bass Strait at the southeast corner of the continent. To aid Beagle in her surveying operations in Bass Strait, the Colonial cutter Vansittart, of Van Diemen's Land, was most liberally lent by His Excellency Sir John Franklin, and placed under the command of Mr Charles Codrington Forsyth, the senior mate, assisted by Mr Pasco, another of her mates. In May 1839, they sailed north to survey the shores of the Arafura Sea opposite Timor. When Wickham fell ill and resigned, the command was taken over in March 1841 by Lieutenant John Lort Stokes who continued the survey. The third voyage was completed in 1843.
Timber Gray Wolf
On this 20 June 1631, Barbary Corsairs out of Salé (in modern Morocco) sack the village of Baltimore, County Cork, Irleand. For centuries privateers employed by the various Barbary States of North Africa scoured the waters of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic plundering vessels. These Barbary Corsairs often led raids on vulnerable settlements as well, aimed at plundering valuables and taking prisoners for ransom or servitude. On 20 June 1631, one of the largest raids on the British Isles took place with the sack of Baltimore. Two Algerian Galleys sailed from Algiers under the Dutchman “Turned-Turk” Murad Reis, formerly Jan Janszoon, one of the most successful Corsair Captains of the time, and the greatest of the “Salé Rovers” who operated out of the Pirate Republic of Salé. Their intent was to sail to the coast of Ireland and raid one of the villages along the coast. By June 19, the corsairs captured fisherman off the coast, added the fishing boats to the fleet, and pressed their crew into service and ordered them to guide the vessels into port. In the early dawn hours of June 20, the Corsairs launched their attack, raiding the
small port town of Baltimore. The crew of some 200 Corsairs, made up of Algerians, Moroccans, and Dutchmen, flowed into the city, setting buildings ablaze and capturing any prisoners they could. Around 100 townsfolk were taken captive and swept away to sea by the corsairs. Many of the men would be tortured or “broken” to be pressed into slavery, meanwhile women and children were treated with surprising respect, destined to be ransomed rather than taken back to the Barbary Coast. The Baltimore raid was recounted by Irish writer Thomas Davis in a poem “The Sack of Baltimore”
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Mark your Calendar, and get ready for the Event season to kick off for 2019. As the year goes on, we shall add more events and update any dates that may change.
2019 July
6th~7th - Bristol Renaissance Faire (Kickoff Weekend)
• 10am to 7pm • Bristol Renaissance Faire, 12550 120th Ave, Bristol, Village of, WI 53142 • Inclueds: 13th~14th, 20th~21st, 27th~28th
12th~14th - Olcott Pirates Festival
• Krull Park, 6108 Lake Rd, Olcott, United States
12th~13th - 24th Annual Saline Celtic Festival
• Mill Pond Park Saline, 565 W Bennett St, Saline, Michigan 48176
14th~15th - Great Lakes Medieval Faire (kickoff weekend)
• 10am to 6pm • 3033 State Route 534, Rock Creek, Ohio, 44084 • Inclueds 20th~21st, 27th~28th, Augest: 3rd~4th, 10th~11th, 17th~18th
18th~21st - Tall Ship Celebration 2019 • Bay City, MI
20th~21st - Swashbuckler’s Bash
• 2285 West Wells Rd, Caro, MI 48723-9264, United States
August
3rd~4th - Bristol Renaissance Faire (Continued)
• 10am to 7pm • Bristol Renaissance Faire, 12550 120th Ave, Bristol, Village of, WI 53142 • Inclueds: 10th~11th, 17th~18th, 24th~25th, Labor Day Weekend: Aug 31st to Sept 2nd (Last Weekend)
10th - Boyne City Pirate Festival Highland Game • Peninsula Beach 310 Front St, Boyne City, Mi 49712
17th~18th - Michigan Renaissance Festival 2017 (kickoff weekend) • 10am to 7pm • 12600 Dixie Hwy. Holly, MI 48442 • 24th~25th, Labor Day Weekend: Aug 31st to Sept 2nd
We are looking for events If you know of any close to you or some of your favorites, please contact us. If you are hosting a gathering and want to get the word out. You can stand out from the event listings by having a full page ad. (please contact us for information on full page promotions)
What inspired you to become a mermaid and then later mermaid vendor? Nothing has resonated more with my soul than being a mermaid......
Interviewed by: Timber Gray Wolf
And so it was that I found life unbearable and void of all good following a life-shattering event my child became the victim of. One day following, my child came to me telling me she wanted to become a mermaid. She told me repeatedly over the next several months until I could no longer put off her request. By day I cared for her fragile needs and by night to learned to sew and create for her. I separated myself from everything and everyone I knew. I left any form of stability & normality I once clung to and dedicated myself to her wellness and healing. Following the trauma, I found my very first sense of comfort and peace at night as I worked creating these mermaid costumes. I thought I would offer the costumes to the public and they sold, I couldn’t keep up with sales! I was so blessed to do something we both loved and to be able to care for her and be here for her. It was a therapeutic business for both of us. The depth of the healing that needed to occur was in every cell of our beings and this was the path that lit up for us.
Which of the Great Lakes might we find you swimming it
What might be your “mersona”, and do you have a back story to go along with it?
Lake Michigan
I came across a post from Pirate Fest asking if anyone would like to join them in an upcoming “fish day parade”. I reached out to them and offered my little mermaid. The birth of our characters happened that day beside that pirate ship. We were embraced and welcomed by professional pirate performers as their mermaids. Suddenly my little mermaid sat proud and found her smile once again. She had a passion for being in the spotlight from day one, she felt important. I would do anything to make sure she knew she was. So Mermaid Marina became my creature. No man can violate my creature. I am as beautifully mystic and fleeting as they come. They cannot capture either and all they have is their stories to recall us, Should a man try to harm us we turn the winds into sweet songs to lure him to his death. No man would ever be able to violate and destroy us again. Because as mermaids we are strong. As mermaids we are powerful and able to defend ourselves. We have no humanly private area for man to defile. We are of the sea and in the sea we are home far away from the pain and cruelty of man in this world.
Do you belong to a pod or a lone swimmer
Pod: The Bella Marine Mermaidsconsisting of children & 2 adult mermaids.
We were able to meet briefly while at Mermaid Megafest. How was your second visit to event this year. absolutely love this event!!! Very excited to return again next year!
A outfit made by Marina Mermaid
What do you like the most about going to the events and what is one of your favorite so far? Being able to support myself & my daughter through my passion/art & meeting pirates & mermaids!
Ahoy! We are running a sale on our MIRATE design PROMOCODE: “SCARYGOOD”
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