to write a freelance piece for their museum's special section about the widow pirate museum in provincetown, cape cod. the museum contains. the artifacts recovered from the widow pirate ship that crashed during a fierce nor'easter off the coast, wellfleet, cape cod, in. 1717. prior to writing this article, i didn't much about pirates except what i had read in books and seen in movies. i thought all pirates had a pet parrot parrot like long john silver in robert louis stevenson, treasure island. or it looked like the handsome and fit. errol flynn in the 1935 movie captain blood or recently walked talked and wore eyeshadow like jack sparrow in the movies pirates of the caribbean caribbean. looking at the everyday arctic artifacts recovered from the pirate ship silver coins, cutlery, pewter plates, a teapot, the shoulder blade of a pirate pistols, canon navigation instruments, medical supplies and even a size five shoe a leg and silk stocking. i realized these mythological figures were mere ordinary men. the legend of the captain samuel bellamy and his love interest, maria hallett told me that