Location: Zoom Virtual Lecture
Time: 7 pm - 8:30 pm

•    Tobacco was foundational to shaping life in the Lord Baltimore’s colony. Explore insights into the yearly “Tobacco Fleet” that brought goods & carried tobacco across the Atlantic.

•    Learn about the remains of an actual 17th-century English tobacco ship discovered using historical research and archaeology.

Presenter: Archaeologist Henry Miller

Registration Required.

• Upon registration, you will receive two emails: one confirmation email with your receipt and the link to join the Zoom lecture and one e-ticket email.

Cost:  $10 admission fee. FREE for AMM Members First Mate and above ($150). Please contact Lizzie Spokely about your membership code to access the free lecture. 

This lecture will be offered virtually by Zoom, an online video conferencing platform. Upon registration, you will be sent the link for the video conference to join on the evening of the lecture. If you do not receive your confirmation email after you register, please check your Spam folder, or email Lizzie Spokely at lspokely@amaritime.org. To learn more about Zoom and to download the app to your computer, visit the Zoom website. 

About the Presenter: 

Henry Miller has been a Maryland archaeologist since 1972. He is the Archaeological Curator, Director of Research, and now Maryland Heritage Scholar for the State Museum of Historic St. Mary's City. Henry is a discoverer and excavator of numerous archaeological sites. Miller is the Director of the "Project Lead Coffins" that identified members of the Calvert family buried in an elite manner inside the 1660s Chapel at St. Mary's.