We
celebrated a late St. Patrick’s Day on Monday (18th). There were green and white balloons at some
of the venues and we had a phenomenal special show that night. The ship’s ensemble, show band, the dance
duo, the violinist, and many others put together a really great show. Lots of energy and lots of Irish dancing.
On
the 19th we had more great lectures.
One was St. Brendan and some monks in the 6th
Century who, according to an old Irish legend, built a leather boat and sailed to America. Scientist Tim Severin and his colleagues
decided to try to repeat the voyage. Mr.
Severin gave a lecture and showed a documentary about this effort. They went to a lot of work researching how
the boat was likely built and tried to use all of the same methods that would
have been used to build it the same way. The lecture and film ended when they
reached Iceland. The rest of the tale
will be told another day.
The
other major lecture was entitled “President Trump”. It was heavily attended and the presentation
was pretty balanced.
Tonight’s
(19th) entertainment was classical pianist Rustem Hayroudinoff…a
great concert.
On the 20th, still at sea, we had another round of great lectures including one on St. Helena, final home of Napoleon. The other topic was on the current political realignment that is going on the America. The presenter was Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer prize winner and frequent contributor on MSNBC. In discussions with friends afterwards we all felt he did a pretty
balanced job on a very difficult and divisive topic. Others were overheard complaining about his
blatant liberal bias against Trump (must have been Trump supporters).
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