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Location - Peabody AOH58 Lowell Street, Peabody MA
Parking is available in the St. John the Baptist parking lot on School Street (Behind the AOH)
Social Hour and Dinner Time - 6:00 PM
Bring your own dinner
Presentation Time - 7:00 PM
U-Boats sunk off the Coast of New England
Eric Wiberg is a citizen of Sweden and the US. He has appeared on TV or film 7 times for audiences worldwide. The US Congress leveraged his research in 2019 to issue medals to 10 US Navy aviators for the sinking of U-84. He has identified and located Norwegian, American, German and Italian war dead in the Bahamas, Bermuda and the US. His latest book earned Best Book of the Week from the 4th-best-selling newspaper in the US, New York Post. Vanity Fair has featured him. Eric left the Bahamas at 13 for boarding schools in New England and enrolled at Boston College in 1989. He was hired to race to Bermuda in 1989, and in 1991 sailed as mate from Antigua to Belgium to attend Harris Manchester College, Oxford. In college he self-published five collections of writing and then sailed from Panama to New Zealand on a 68’ wooden boat, becoming Captain in Galapagos. A year’s travel was the basis of a coming-of-age memoir.
After three years in Singapore he returned to Newport, writing in the off-season and delivering yachts to and from the Caribbean. He earned a master’s degree in Marine Affairs degree from U.R.I. and passed the bar in 2005. He has operated 120 vessels over 75,000 miles, to or from Bermuda over 30 times, and across two oceans. He has been knocked overboard, attacked by sharks, and malnourished. He now’s living in Boston
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AOH Of Peabody, Peabody, Massachusetts, United States
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