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Gear for Travellers

If you’re travelling by plane: Due to heightened airport security, it generally isn’t possible to carry your art supplies on board an airplane. Paints are considered “liquid” and thinners are definitely “flammable,” so they are not carry-ons. Before leaving home, check online for your destination city and locate art supply sources. Some cities will obviously Read More

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Margaret Skinner, 1850

Hello, can you or anyone help me find a passenger Margaret Skinner and her two children who travelled by ship from Tasmania to San Francisco in 1850. Sadly she arrived with her husband, a Master Mariner named Peter Paterson and sadly for whatever reason, we don’t know, he returned to Tasmania without her or their Read More

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World Music

Pirates of Caribbean: Swashbuckling Sea Songs Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Swashbuckling Sea Songs collects 14 seafaring singalongs that aim their cannons at the children who have spent time on the legendary theme park ride. The goofy renditions of classic sea shanties like “Blow the Man Down” and “Yo, Ho, Ho (And a Bottle of Read More