Demystifying Pirates

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COLONIAL HEIGHTS -- Most people who know Tamara Eastman call her "The Pirate Lady." She doesn't go on swashbuckling adventures on the high seas, but she does know a lot the oft misrepresented pirates of the early 1700s.

"These movies that you're seeing, they're so much fun," Eastman said. "Captain Hook meets Mickey Mouse-type things, but it really gives people the wrong impression of pirates. Nobody had a peg led, nobody had a parrot on his shoulder, no one had a patch over his eye. If you got to that point, you were retired from the ship."

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Demystifying Pirates

Eastman, who is from Dinwiddie, has been interested in history as far as she can remember and credits her father for the interest. "My daddy was a history teacher," Eastman said. "H...

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