October 27, Thursday, 3-4 pm, Mortar Board Centennial Suite (Thompson Library Room 202)

Jasmine Anderson, from the Office of Financial Services, will transform herself into a pirate and take us back in time to swashbuckling high sea adventures.  She will read from The Ballad of the Pirate Queens by Jane Yolen,1995, and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques, 2001. The Ballad of the Pirate Queens tells the adventures of Anne Bonney and Mary Reade, two of history’s most infamous pirates, who dressed as men and sailed with Captain Calico Jack Rackham. Castaways of the Flying Dutchman is about a boy and his dog who are rescued from the Flying Dutchman in 1620 by an angel who guides them in traveling the world eternally helping those in great need.