If you were a young man in the 1700s looking for a career that offered worker's compensation and a possible wealthy retirement all within a highly democratic system, you might have considered piracy. "One of things we enjoy doing is separating the myth from the reality of what pirates were really like," said historian Chris Macort, who was on hand at the debut of the Grand Rapids Public Museum's exhibit "Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship" which opened to the public on Saturday, Oct. 18. The Whydah had been captured by pirate Sam Bellamy and sank off the coast of Cape Cod nearly 300 years ago, scattering her enormous bounty.
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