The Bahamas Historical Society presents a talk with Heather Hatch on the Harbour Island and Maritime Life in the 17-19th Century on September 19th, 2011. This will be the first talk of the new season and a topic pursued in her upcoming PhD thesis. The museum reopens that same day.

Heather Hatch is a PhD student in the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University.  She acquired her BA in Anthropology at the University of New Brunswick in her hometown Fredericton, NB, Canada, and holds MAs in European Historical Archaeology from the University of Sheffield (Sheffield, UK), and Maritime History from the East Carolina University ...