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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><font
size=4 color=black face="Times New (W1)"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New \(W1\)";color:black;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><font
size=4 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>The </span></font></b><b><font size=4
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Cape Cod</span></font></b><b><font size=4
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><b><font size=4 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>Museum</span></font></b><b><font size=4 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'> of Natural History in Brewster</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><font
size=4 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Presents</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><font
size=4 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Theresa Barbo</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><font
size=4 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Author of “</span></font></b><b><font
size=4 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Cape Cod</span></font></b><b><font size=4
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><b><font size=4 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>Bay</span></font></b><b><font size=4 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>” and “Nantucket Sound”</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><font
size=4 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Friday, September 11 at </span></font></b><b><font size=4 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>7:00 pm</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: </span></font></b><b><font color=black face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:
bold'>August 12, 2009</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Contact: Julie O’Neil
508-896-3867 or </span></font></b><span class=MsoHyperlink><b><u><font
color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><a
href="mailto:adminsupport@ccmnh.org">adminsupport@ccmnh.org</a></span></font></u></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span class=MsoHyperlink><u><font
size=2 color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'> On Friday, September 11 at 7 pm Theresa
Barbo, noted local author of historical non-fiction, will speak about her novel
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cape Cod Bay: A History of Salt & Sea</span></b>
--the first book to be set in the bay, and her current scholarly work <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Nantucket Sound: A Maritime History. </span></b>Members
free, Non-Members $3. Following the presentation will be a book signing.</span></font></u></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span class=MsoHyperlink><u><font
size=2 color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'> Ms. Barbo’s entertaining talks and
illustrated presentations are delivered in a plain-spoken, sometimes serious, but
often slightly humorous style. Her books depict how people lived, worked,
fought, loved and died. In her book <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cape Cod
Bay: A History of Salt & Sea</span></b>, Theresa Barbo brings to life the
colorful people and crucial events of the past 400 years on </span></font></u></span><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><font color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span
style='font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'>Cape Cod</span></font></u></span><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><font color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span
style='font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'> </span></font></u></span><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><font color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span
style='font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'>Bay</span></font></u></span><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><font color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span
style='font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'>, and key environmental and public policy
concerns of the ecosystem. Her writings include <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>The Cape Cod Murder of 1899</span></b>, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>True
Accounts of Yankee Ingenuity & Grit</span></b> <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>from The Cape Cod Voice</span></b>, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>The
Pendleton Disaster off Cape Cod: the Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard
History</span></b>,” which remains on the Commandant’s Recommended
Reading List for Leadership.</span></font></u></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span class=MsoHyperlink><u><font
size=2 color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'> She is the Founding Director of the annual </span></font></u></span><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><font color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span
style='font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'>Cape Cod</span></font></u></span><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><font color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span
style='font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'> Maritime History Symposium, now partnered
with the </span></font></u></span><span class=MsoHyperlink><u><font color=blue
face="Arial (W1)"><span style='font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'>Cape Cod</span></font></u></span><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><font color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span
style='font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'> </span></font></u></span><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><font color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span
style='font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'>Museum</span></font></u></span><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><font color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span
style='font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'> of Natural History. Now in its 14<sup>th</sup>
year, the Symposium has evolved into a leading event of the month-long </span></font></u></span><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><font color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span
style='font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'>Cape</span></font></u></span><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><font color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span
style='font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'> </span></font></u></span><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><font color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span
style='font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'>Maritime</span></font></u></span><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><font color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span
style='font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'> Days sponsored by the </span></font></u></span><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><font color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span
style='font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'>Cape Cod</span></font></u></span><span
class=MsoHyperlink><u><font color=blue face="Arial (W1)"><span
style='font-family:"Arial \(W1\)"'> Chamber of Commerce and is widely attended
by professional and amateur maritime and cultural historians.</span></font></u></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><b><font size=2 color=black
face="Arial (W1)"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Arial \(W1\)";color:black;font-weight:bold'>For further information, please contact
the </span></font></b><b><font size=2 color=black face="Arial (W1)"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial \(W1\)";
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Cape Cod</span></font></b><b><font size=2
color=black face="Arial (W1)"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:"Arial \(W1\)";color:black;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><b><font
size=2 color=black face="Arial (W1)"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial \(W1\)";color:black;font-weight:bold'>Museum</span></font></b><b><font
size=2 color=black face="Arial (W1)"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:"Arial \(W1\)";color:black;font-weight:bold'> of Natural
History,508-896-3867, Ext. 133</span></font></b><b><font color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>.</span></font></b></p>
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