Profile

Richard Stone is the author of PROJECT MAYFLOWER - BUILDING AND SAILING A 17TH CENTURY REPLICA (Lyons Press/Rowman & Littlefield, May 2024). https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781493084364/Project-Mayflower-Building-and-Sailing-a-17th-Century-Replica

The book explores the impact the Suez Crisis had on the enterprise, the impact the conflict had on the Special Relationship, and the previously untold role the Mayflower replica may have played in repairing the Atlantic bond.

Richard Stone is a graduate of Harvard University (economics) and the University of California, Los Angeles (journalism).

Organisation

Mayflower Event News

Location

Outside UK

Areas of Specialist Interest

  • Cold War and late-20th Century (1949 - 2000)

Qualifications

  • Richard A. Stone is the author of PROJECT MAYFLOWER – BUILDING AND SAILING A 17TH CENTURY REPLICA (Lyons Press) (non-fiction maritime history) and the founder of Mayflower Event News
  • an information platform devoted to stories related to the Mayflower and Mayflower II. He worked for decades at America’s premier media groups including NBC
  • HBO
  • Time Inc and ESPN/Disney after graduating from Harvard (BA Economics) and the University of California
  • Los Angeles (MA Journalism). Originally from Southern California
  • he now lives in Connecticut.

Skills

  • Working with digital and social media
  • Working with collections and archives
  • Building Partnerships
  • Marketing and PR
  • Historical research