Wishing ye all the best, as we sail into a new year!
Good health, good fortune, good adventures…and good mates to share it with – or as we so often say:
Fair winds, following seas & full tankards,
Capt. John Swallow & QM Seika Hellbound
Here’s a seasonal – and very Louisiana story – from Morgan City.
John Barry, President o’ Restore Louisiana Now has his cannon loaded and aimed squarely at those largely responsible for the destruction o’ the South Louisiana Coast – “Big Oil”. In the space o’ one person’s lifetime, Louisiana has watched more than 1800 square miles o’ land melt into the Gulf o’ Mexico – roughly the…
Ahoy, mates! We hope this message finds ye in good health and high spirits! Family Pyrate Day, (an original NOLA Pyrate Week festivity) sails again, filled with treasure, music, and family fun! It’s always a pleasure to visit with our mates on the “Wet Bank” of New Orleans – Algiers Point is a hidden gem…
Our mate, Rick Prose, was responsible for founding lowernine.org – rebuilding homes/community in the Lower Ninth Ward o’ New Orleans. The Crew at NOLA Pyrate Week are proud to have supported & volunteered with this fine organization. Despite the fact they’ve returned more folks to their homes (on less budget) than any other similar organization,…
Sunday the 30th o’ March, in the year Two Thousand & Fourteen we declare the binding o’ Ms. Cherokee Jenny Dubs & Master Edward ‘Doc’ Lawless. Ceremony officiated by QM Seika Hellbound, consecrated by Capt. John Swallow. At two bells past noon in Pirates Alley, gather ye all and be witness – and drink a…
As of this writing (Nov. 2010)…five years ago, a disaster struck New Orleans. The media said it was a natural disaster primarily affecting poor black people. On both counts, the media was wrong. In his feature–length documentary The Big Uneasy, humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer gets the inside story of a disaster that…
This has already been an odd year – so, who says we can’t make a wee shift in plans just this once? Due to leap year and such, things are a bit out of sync, so – we’re shifting our “week”! Usually we’re “the last weekend in Mar. to the first weekend in Apr.”, but…
