Tag: Pam Keyes
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Remembering Pam Keyes: the woman who knew Jean Laffite
When I was writing my novel Theodosia and the Pirates, I was reading The Journal of Jean Laffite and trying to reconcile it with an 1823 obituary claiming he had died in a sea battle off the Honduran coast. The obituary troubled me. If the Journal was authentic — and I believed it was —…
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Was the Journal of Jean Laffite an Original, a Copy or a Forgery?
What is the difference between a forgery and a copy? How can you tell something is a good copy of an original document and has not been altered? And if it is, indeed, a copy, how do you go about recognizing alterations in the copied document? What is the distinction between a facsimile and just…
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An Interview with Pam Keyes about Jean Laffite
Pam Keyes is the Research Coordinator of the Laffite Society and a well known expert on the history of Jean Laffite and of the artifacts and written evidence that are available on the life of the famous privateer. In this interview, I asked her questions concerning Jean Laffite that have been preoccupying me for some…