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Bath Town's Blackbeard Tricentennial Commemoration

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Schedule

Friday
October 19, 2018

7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Historic Turnage Theatre
Washington, NC

“An Evening with Blackbeard and Friends”

Ticketed Event Sponsored by The Greater Bath Foundation, The Blackbeard Society, and the Blackbeard Adventure Alliance.

Taste of 1718 Reception

Multi-Media Exhibit: The Iconography of Blackbeard

Introduction of Special Guests

“Will the Real Blackbeard Stand Up Please?”

A Pirate Parley: “Was Blackbeard Murdered?”

Saturday
October 20, 2018

11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Bath Town’s Blackbeard Tricentennial: The Home of Blackbeard

Skydiving Exhibition

Pirate Encampment at Bonner Point

Pirate Parade & Costume Contest

Largest gathering of Blackbeards to set a world record

Epic sea battle and siege of Bath in the waters off historic Bonner Point

Sword fighting demonstrations

Cannon making lessons

Port Royal, Jamaica artifacts

A Pirate Parley: “Was Blackbeard Murdered?”

Tug of war contests with pirates and King’s sailors

Food trucks

Presentation of Descendants of Pirates, Colonial officials, Royal Navy Officers, and other participants of Blackbeard’s story as well as other honored guests and public officials

Performance by The Shadow Players Stage Combat Group

Performance by Rusty Cutlass Band of Orlando

Fireworks Display

Specific detail time line of events will be provided at a later date.

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Pirates were criminals, right? So why would we celebrate them?

Weren’t pirates criminals? Why are we celebrating the lives of Blackbeard and his pirates at Bath, North Carolina, on October 19th & 20th, 2018? Desperate times called for desperate …

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Bath Town to host Blackbeard 300, the Tricentennial of their most famous resident, Blackbeard the Pirate

Be a part of history on October 19-20, 2018, when the Town of Bath and the Greater Bath Foundation proudly observes the official Blackbeard 300, the Tricentennial of the notorious Blackbeard, his …

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