Some Evidence, Good Guesses, and Loose Ends. xiĪpril 26, 1717: Gathering Clouds.xiii The First Part. She knows in her heart this ship is Sam's.Īuthor’s Notes. Night, and struggling to stand on the cliffs, watches as a ship crashes on the shoals off shore. On the night of April 26, 1717, three of the four pirate ships run aground leaving the Whydah and her crew to fight for survival on theirĪlone in her cabin when the storm breaks, Mariah dashes out into the They are becalmed for long stressful hours in a dense fog off Cape Cod's "elbow." When the fog lifts, instead of heading into deeper waters to follow a course to Maine and a rendezvous with aĬaptain in his fleet, Sam navigates close to the Cape's rough Atlantic shore in preparation to sail around the "hook", into Cape Cod Bay-and to his Mariah.Ĭaught in a sudden, violent storm (now thought to have been an Occluded Front)
As they pass between Nantucket Island and Georges Bank, With unshakable faith that Sam will return to her, she walks the cliffs of Lucifer Land overlooking the wild Atlantic and watches for hisĪs the Whydah makes her way north along the east coast of theĪmerican Colonies, Sam and his crew plunder vessels engaged in honest trade, adding ships to their fleet and treasure to their coffers. On the rough Cape Cod moor that edges the sea. Confronting a harsh winter and an uncertain future, she struggles to survive alone Sinister challenges when she is not only charged with murder, but faces accusations of witchcraft as well. While Sam is away, Mariah's secret is discovered and she faces dark and With more than enough plunder to line his pockets, he turns the Whydah north to Cape Cod and his greatest prize, To England with incredible riches in her hold. In February, 1717, he seizes the Whydah, a slave trip returning Sails the Caribbean under the black flag, allowing this means to an end - this sweet trade of piracy - to claim him. Simple quest to find enough lost Spanish treasure (in the waters between Florida and Cuba) to offer Mariah a secure future quickly becomes an insatiable lust for gold. They are kindred spirits, each out of step with the society into which they were born, and each finding total acceptance in the other. Sam comes to the New World from Plymouth, England, to start a new life, and onĬape Cod, in Massachusetts, he meets Mariah. Tradition says it's his love for her that first leads him on his quest for The are joined forever in rich Cape Cod legend and in tales of the sea. It's not Sam Bellamy's story alone that survives the years, but Mariah And I live with a friendly, polite, perfect-New England-type-ginger-tabby cat named "Sam", after Have a great 32-year-old son, Andrew, who's a para-medic and a talented writer and musician. I've been a widow for twenty-three years I Play folk guitar in an 7-member folk music group called Just Plain Folk and we perform locally I knit I lead a weekly writer's group belong toĪ fun book club and I' m an Arts and Letters member of the Cape Cod Branch of the National League of American Pen Women for which I am serving as vice president. Wash-a-shore the founding host of two literary groups: ABITH ( A Book in the Hand) and Shelf Space I I'm a native New Yorker and genuine Cape Cod It had somehow expanded to include the sheer joy of using the right words to build sentences, paragraphs, pages, Limited to imagining another world and being other people. Too, the manuscript went through several incarnations while I decided what it was going to be when it finally "grew up." During this process I discovered the purpose of writing wasn't at all
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