I have an agent looking into chartering a cruise with The History Guy. This would be a relatively intimate ship- perhaps 100-200 passengers. The plan would be either the East Cost or the Mississippi, and would focus on historical sites along the way. I would do historical presentations as well as mingle personally. Tentatively we would schedule summer or fall of 2024.
At this point I am just gauging interest to see if it is an idea worth pursuing. If you might at all be interested, please respond here and we can start to work on details.
-Lance
After the public announcement of the armistice ending hostilities between Italy and the Allied powers on September 8th, 1943, the Italian navy fled its ports in a desperate bid to reach the safety of Allied forces, even as German forces, carrying a terrifying new weapon, sought to capture or destroy them.
On August 26, 1980, some men wearing jumpsuits drove up in a white Dodge van and rolled a large box into a Casino in Stateline Nevada, saying that they were delivering a copy machine. It wasn’t a copy machine. Thus began what the Federal Bureau of Investigation described as “one of the most unusual cases” in the bureau’s history.
In 1943 the Yorktown, Virginia, Naval Mine Depot manufactured explosive ordnance and loaded it onto ships in the York River bound for the battlefields of WWII. On November 16th, a massive explosion rocked the Depot, leaving enormous craters and shattering glass for miles around.