Event Details

Sea Your History

Time: 3:00 pm til 5:00 pm

Location: St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum

Description: At 3 pm Dr. de Bry and Chuck Meide, Director of LAMP, will be at in the Lighthouse courtyard at a table displaying artifacts from a French shipwreck excavated in 1997-1998 at the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean by a team lead by Meide which also included LAMP archaeologist Dr. Sam Turner. At 4 pm Dr. de Bry and Chuck Meide will present a lecture titled “The French Fleet of 1565: Collision of Empires” which will focus on the French settlement attempt at Fort Caroline and Ribault’s colonization fleet which attacked St. Augustine and was wrecked in a storm south of our coast.Afterwards there will be a complimentary French wine tasting, and a chance to talk to Dr. de Bry and Meide.

FPAN is hosting this event.