Barbara Semple (retired children’s librarian, volunteer for the Chatham Historical Society and the Atwood House Museum) relates stories of life aboard a sailing vessel during the late 1800s while embarking on the China Trade. Barbara’s great-aunt, Frances Carleton Brastow Amesbury, was the wife of a sea-captain on such a vessel and, in her 15 years of journals and diaries, she describes her experiences on the high seas.

This is an online class. Course information and registration is available online at www.friendsofsnowlibrary.org/lifetime-learning-program. You must register at least 48 hours prior to the class.