Adam Marrow
The organizer of Under the Black Flag is Adam Marrow of Shipwrecked with Captain Marrow fame.
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Virginia Chandler
Aye, I’ll be there invadin’ with my pyrate pals! My pyrate titles are historical fiction:
Allen Balogh
Allen teaches the Golden Age of Piracy and the Knights Templar at Flagler College in St. Augustine. He is an Award-winning author, PBS Rogue History appearance, International Pirate Hall of Fame, and 1715 Fleet historian (with research completed at Castillo de la Fuerza, Havana, Cuba). In recent years, Allen has been writing novels of pirate fiction, which are interwoven with both factual history and folklore.
William “Bill” Charles Furney
Furney’s 2017 pirate-focused work Black Hearts White Bones is an action-packed work of historical fiction focusing on the two most famous of female pirates, Anne Bonny & Mary Read. The narrative features female lead, Peg Brennan, an alias of the escaped Anne Bonny, who has a bastard son in Bath, North Carolina, while a vengeful Mary Read who escaped prison in Jamaica nine years prior has a debt to settle. Arriving into Charles Town, South Carolina, she seeks revenge for being left to die in prison.
Chris Boyd’s LEGO Creation
Pyrate enthusiast and talented LEGO builder, Chris Boyd, has built a reproduction of The Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon using LEGOs! It will be on display during Under the Black Flag!
Matt McLaine
McLaine is a local author who has a catalogue of pirate books and is a strong participating member of the greater online pirate history community. His newest titles include Corsairs on Canvas and Buccaneer Books.
His other works include A Merry Life and A Short One as well as The Four Years Voyages of George Roberts, newly transcribed and thoroughly annotated version of the 1726 original. Piracy Papers presents and analyzes a collection of period documents relevant to the times of the pirates.
Dan Porter
With a career of 40 years, Dan Porter is a boat captain, diver, and shipwreck recovery operations director! He will have a display of artifacts from his treasure dives and coins for sale!
Dan’s newest book is The San Jose, Anno 1631 Collection, Volume 1, and he will be signing copies both days of the event.
Dan will be presenting both days on the topic Historic Shipwreck Recovery.
The crew of the Bachelor’s Delight is a pirate reenactment crew based out of Charleston. Founded in early 2025 by pirate author and historian Adam Marrow, his partner Ava Lin Pence, and Jennifer Mincey. The crew stays busy by attending many family-friendly festivals and historic event celebrations throughout the year.
They have replicas and artifacts for hands-on learning. They strive to showcase the history of the real-life crew of the Bachelor’s Delight/Royal Jamaica that arrived in Charleston in 1692.
Virginia Chandler 
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