Name: ⚓ The Departing Sailor: The Sailor's Tear and the Emotional Jack-Tar
Start: 2026-10-28T19:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-10-28T20:45:00.000Z
Location: Abney Park Cemetery Trust

Part of Abney Park's Gates of the Abode programme. Folklorist Alessandra Curtis examines the weeping Jack Tar and how working-class sailors were allowed a tenderness denied to other men.

George Mayfield

The Departing Sailor: The Sailor's Tear and the Emotional Jack-Tar

Abney Park Cemetery Trust, Stoke Newington High St, London N16 0LH, UK

⚓ The Departing Sailor: The Sailor's Tear and the Emotional Jack-Tar

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