Lives of the Pirates by Kathleen Krull

Author:Kathleen Krull
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

BURIED TREASURE

In 1996 a ship believed to be Queen Anne’s Revenge was discovered near Beaufort, North Carolina. Though the evidence is not conclusive, thousands of artifacts from it are now on display at the North Carolina Maritime Museum, a major tourist attraction. Over in Hampton, Virginia, there is a Blackbeard Festival every year.

Valuing entertainment over accuracy, many of the countless Hollywood movies about pirates portray Blackbeard. Most influential is 1952’s Blackbeard, the Pirate, in which the actor Robert Newton speaks in a way most people still think pirates talked. Blackbeard shows up in books (such as one of the Time Warp Trio books by Jon Scieszka) and on TV (episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants and The Simpsons). In 2003, many were fooled by a legend that Blackbeard used the nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence” as a recruiting tool. This rumor had been made up by a website as a way of urging people to use common sense when evaluating the truth of urban legends.

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