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Those expecting a party-pooping exposé of the pirate lifestyle as boring or over-hyped will be pleasantly surprised. It turns out that guys like Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, and Captain Kidd largely met or exceeded our cultural expectations...
That kind of service is possible because there can't be many guests to start with. The Oceana has only 63 suites, the Colombe d'Or just 15. "Our guests are people, not numbers," says Kevin Blackbeard, director of sales and marketing at the Oceana. Avatar Kramer, broadcast producer for the San Francisco ad agency Publicis & Hal Riney, always stays there when in L.A., and uses his suite for production meetings. "It's ironic that in a more closed environment than a lot of hotels, you feel a lot more privacy," says Kramer...
First settled in 1710, New Bern is rich in history. Pirates roamed the coast, and Blackbeard used to stay at Hammock House, in Beaufort, some 40 miles away. The wreckage of his ship Queen Anne's Revenge was recently discovered in waters offshore. In the heart of New Bern is Tryon Palace, once the residence of 18th century English royal governors. The town was a political hotbed during the Revolution and later became the first capital of the state. The red-brick Georgian palace, set on 14 acres of lush gardens and grounds, is among the town's more than...
...unusual cautionary note in these days of pleasure cruises in the Bahamas and the Caribbean, where the legends of bloodthirsty pirates like Blackbeard and Jean Lafitte survive only in tourist brochures. But the warning, published in the respected Yachtsman's Guide to the Bahamas, is aimed at putting modern skippers on their guard against today's version of piracy: yachtjacking by drug smugglers who use tiny Bahamian cays as bases for shipping cocaine and marijuana from Latin America to South Florida...
...frightful destiny." From the hydrangea-festooned platform, Billy denounced the radical "Death of God" theologians, and shouted: "I fear that sex has become our goddess-and has that one-eyed thing in our living room become our God?" Moved by the fist-pounding sermon, 450 people-a leonine blackbeard, a Negro youth, a golden blonde, hand-holding lovers-came forward to make "decisions for Christ" almost precisely in the numbers foretold by the slide rules of Billy's knowledgeable aides...