Upcoming Appearances - Ashore and Afloat

September 10, 11, 12, 2010 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival.

Author's Tent, plus three talks:

The Secret Voyage, Drake in the Puget Sound and the Inside Passage

Companionable Explorers: Vancouver and Quadra chart the Salish Sea

Wilkes in Puget Sound, The Pig War, and their Civil War Legacies

October 12, 2010 South Sound Sailing Society, Olympia, WA

The Sailor Who Sank Himself - Charles Wilkes

November 5 through 20, 2010 aboard Island Princess, Los Angeles, Los Cabos, Acapulco, Punta Arenas, Costa Rica, Panama City, Cartagena, Colombia, Aruba, Ft. Lauderdale. Seven talks from the Oceans of History series, Seldom Told Tales of the Seven Seas:

Panama, Rebel Raiders, and California Gold

From San Blas to the Unknown Sea, Spanish Exploration of the Pacific Coast

The Big Stick: The US Navy, Teddy Roosevelt's Ocean Diplomacy and the Great White Fleet

Japan's Air Strike on the Panama Canal

The Isthmian Route and the Elizabethan Corsair - Drake's raid on Cartagena, and his discovery

of the Panama Isthmus

Death in Nicaragua - The Other Isthmus Crossing

Caribbean Commander, the Young Nelson

Tues Nov 30,7:00 AM, North Thurston Kiwanis. Topic: Confederates in the NW

Tues Nov 30, 9:00 AM, Panorama “JET” Breakfast. Topic: Confederates in the NW

Sat Dec 11, 6:00 PM, Navy League Banquet @ Panorama. Topic: Confederates in the NW

Wed Dec. 8, evening, Whatcom Maritime Assoc. 2 Squalicum Yacht Club. Topic: Charles Wilkes

Mon Dec 13, Noon, Olympia Kiwanis. Topic: Confederates in the NW

2011

Monday, Jan 3, Noon Olympia Rotary at Indian Summer Restaurant, Confederates on the Northwest Coast.

Thur Jan 6, 2:30 - 4:00 PM, Panorama "Learning in Retirement," Topic: Charles Wilkes

Tues May 17, 7:30 PM, Olympia Sail and Power Squadron, @ Olympia Yacht Club. Topic: tbd

Sat May 21, 2:00 pm, Puget Sound Navy Museum, Bremerton, WA. Topic: tbd

June 25, Saturday, Seattle Pioneer Association, topic tbd

Please call Les at 360-754-3711 or 360-701-3213 to schedule an appearance or for more information about the above listed appearances.

All of Les books will be available for sale at these events including: The Chesapeake Command, Gray Raiders, Green Seas, The Wake of the Woonsocket, and The Pride of Pascagoula, and, except for Oct 23 and 30, The Wilkes Expedition, Charles Wilkes and the Oregon Country, a history.