Author Art Webster is our banquet speaker Saturday, September 21, 2019.   Art will share stories from his book Down to the Sea  which contains twelve true stories about life aboard merchant ships from his perspective as a member of the crew. "One man's bravery saved the ship - A mutiny at Sea - A love affair in Panama - A tiger hunt in India - Arrested for gun running in Russian occupied Poland - Running aground in Alaska - A Hindu Princess and a love sick sailor - Crossing the Egyptian Mafia - On a near fatal heading - Sex Slaves in Calcutta - Madness in Manila".  Art was born in November 1928.  Art dropped out of Washington High School at fifteen and a half to join the Merchant Marine in 1944.  He was able to do this by lying about his actual age.  Soon he was on the high seas where his spirit of adventure got him into endless troubles.  There were many close escapes.  Wandering from WWII tankers through the Korean War merchant ships Art finally "gave up his love of the sea and, heroically attempted to settle into a life of marriage and abject boredom"..  He did not succeed.