Chicago has a lot to offer, amazing pizza, incredible concerts, Da Bears! But what I was really drawn towards was the Real Pirates exhibit at The Field Museum. Let me start by saying that I fancy myself a bit of a pirate at heart. Of course unlike the lame “white” witches, piracy never really gets warm and fuzzy. Johnny Depp put a nice Disney spin on the lot of them but essentially they were just plain rotten. And for that I truly love them. Rape and Pillaging aside they were some of the most colorful characters in history.
Driving up to the museum you can’t help but notice the massive Jolly Roger flag splitting the Roman columns like a beacon calling all the wayward braggarts home. Its skull and cross-swords is imposing, majestic and dare I say it, fun! I was thrilled to get inside and document the exhibit for my fellow enthusiasts. And I sure would have if the “man” didn’t step in to wreck my documenting desires. The irony of trying to share the Pirate exhibit with you is that the souls of those fearless men on the Whydah, the worlds only pirate shipwreck, are damned to spend all eternity being protected from piracy. Copyright laws do apply.
