Cayman Islands residents may not immediately recognise the name Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton, but just about everybody has heard of the Wreck of the Ten Sail. Ms Leshikar-Denton, better known as Peggy, is the woman who spent three years researching the true facts of that historic event, and helped Cayman’s National Museum build an exhibit featuring it. She also served as guest editor for a book about it.
That work alone is more than sufficient reason for people to welcome her as the museum’s new director.
Her first day in the post was 3 October, but her connection with the museum goes back 25 years.
She first came to the Cayman Islands in 1980, when a team from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (based at Texas A&M University) was invited by government to survey the Islands’ waters for shipwrecks. In 1986, she accepted a full-time position at the museum and moved permanently to the Cayman Islands.
One of the best-known events in Cayman’s history is the Wreck of the Ten Sails, and perhaps no other episode in Cayman’s past has been the focus of so much legend, the late Philip Pedley said in 1994.
As the first director of the National Archive, he wrote the preface to a book jointly published by the National Archive and Cayman Free Press.
The book was “Our Islands’ Past, Volume II” and it was based on the dissertation Ms Leshikar-Denton submitted for her doctorate in anthropology (nautical archaeology).
Her title was “The 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail, Cayman Islands, British West Indies: A Historical Study and Archaeological Survey”.
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That work alone is more than sufficient reason for people to welcome her as the museum’s new director.
Her first day in the post was 3 October, but her connection with the museum goes back 25 years.
She first came to the Cayman Islands in 1980, when a team from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (based at Texas A&M University) was invited by government to survey the Islands’ waters for shipwrecks. In 1986, she accepted a full-time position at the museum and moved permanently to the Cayman Islands.
One of the best-known events in Cayman’s history is the Wreck of the Ten Sails, and perhaps no other episode in Cayman’s past has been the focus of so much legend, the late Philip Pedley said in 1994.
As the first director of the National Archive, he wrote the preface to a book jointly published by the National Archive and Cayman Free Press.
The book was “Our Islands’ Past, Volume II” and it was based on the dissertation Ms Leshikar-Denton submitted for her doctorate in anthropology (nautical archaeology).
Her title was “The 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail, Cayman Islands, British West Indies: A Historical Study and Archaeological Survey”.
NEWS BY:http://www.compasscayman.com/caycompass/2011/10/14/New-director-has-a-history-with-Cayman-s-National-Museum/
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