By Leslie Gartrell
ST. MARYS - The word "pirate" usually evokes images of swashbuckling, eyepatch-wearing, peg-legged and parrot-wielding buccaneers who traveled the high seas.
However, pirates could be found much closer to home - most notably the Great Lakes.
Ellen Kennedy, education and visitor experience director for the National Museum of the Great Lakes, spoke Tuesday at the St. Marys Public Library about the history of piracy on the Great Lakes. [
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