GulfChats
Each month, National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico joins up with a speaker to give an informative seminar about a maritime-related topic.
The GulfChats take place on the third Thursday of the month, at noon, in the National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico Maritime Museum.
Schedule:
March 20—John Sledge, Maritime Historian-in-residence, National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico
Topic: “Pirates of the Gulf!”
April 17—Gabe Berault, National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico
Topic: “Son of a Bar Pilot”
May 15—Cortney Weatherby, Coastal Outreach Manager, Alabama Audubon
Topic: “Coastal Bird Stewardship Program”
June 19—Ellis Anderson, Editor and Publisher, French Quarter Journal
Topic: “Making the French Quarter Journal“
July 17—Cartledge Blackwell, Director, Mobile Carnival Museum
Topic: “Between Town and Country: An Examination of Dialogs Between Mobile and the Black Belt”
August 21—John Sledge. Maritime Historian-in-Residence, National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico
Topic: “The Amazing Howard I. Chapelle, Maritime Historian”
September 18— Tom McGehee, Museum Director, Bellingrath Gardens and Home
Topic: “Closer than we thought: Nazi Subs in the Gulf”
October 16—Amelia Rose Zimlich, Writer, Mobile Bay magazine
Topic: Unloading Bananas at Mobile
November 20—Greg Waselkov, retired archaeologist, University of South Alabama
Topic: “Indigenous Life Along the Alabama Gulf Coast, A.D. 1-1800.”
December 18—Deanne Stephens, Co-Director, Center for the Study of the Gulf South, University of Southern Mississippi
Topic: TBA
