I have always loved pirates. Even before "Pirates of the Caribbean" came out. I loved reading "Treasure Island" and watching movies like "Hook", "The Swiss Family Robinson", "Kidnapped" and "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." Recently, I've been reading up on the history of pirates, and am completely fascinated. Women were involved in piracy more than most people expect! There's Anne Bonnie, the Southern lady who sailed away with her pirate lover and found her freedom disguised a a male pirate. Or Mary Read, who pleaded "her belly" when she was supposed to hang and was set free because she was pregnant. Or even Blackbeard's wife, who married him even after he killed her fiancee and gave her his finger in a box. She never believed that her fiancee was acually dead, and would wait for him each day on the docks to come back to her. Some say her ghost still haunts the docks of coastal North Carolina....
