About Us

We are the literary critics and historians of On the High Seas, a learning community taught by Stephen R. Berry and Lydia G. Fash, at Simmons University. Through that course, which combined pirate literature and pirate history, we authored this pirate trail. See us here, at our field trip to the USS Constitution, where we imagined how it would have been to spend months at sea. Standing, from left to right are Caitlyn Bucci, Abigail Eastwood, Jessica Sibert, Serena Rizzo, Steve Berry (behind Serena), Meridith Dantzscher, Michaela Hayes, Kat Jones, Madeline Martin, Selma Watson, Lydia Fash, Lizzy Collotta. Sitting, left to right are Christina Jang, Adrianna King, Kaili Shorey, Amanda Perry, Emma Donald, Mae Blackwell, Kirby Assaf, Autumn West, Devon McCarthy

Our thanks to Courtney Lombard, Simmons alumna (2019), for her work putting together this site, and to Dean Brian Norman and Associate Dean Denise Horn for supporting this project.