Virtual Evening Lecture: The Gulf Of Mexico, A Maritime History
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The Mariners' Museum and Park
Venture online with author John S. Sledge as he shares salt-streaked stories of sea-going characters representing a gumbo of ethnicities from the Gulf of Mexico basin. This lecture is part of The Mariners’ Museum celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month.
Viewers are welcome to send John any comments or questions during the presentation, and he will answer them following the lecture.
About the lecture: Hear from John on the history and heritage of the Gulf of Mexico, the earth’s 10th largest body of water, and one he lovingly calls a “beautiful, pocketed sea.”
The Spanish role in discovering, settling, and exploring the Gulf basin will introduce us to some of the world’s most exotic cities and such memorable personalities as Sebastian Ocampo, Ponce de Leon, Hernan Cortez, and Isabel de Bobadilla, the first (and only) female governor of Cuba.
The author of seven books on Gulf coast history and architecture, including The Mobile River, and Southern Bound: A Gulf Coast Journalist on Books, Writers, and Literary Pilgrimages of the Heart, John is a senior architectural historian with the Mobile Historic Development Commission.