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A piece of colonial history is set to begin its voyage home. The Mayflower II will return to Plymouth following months of restoration work in Mystic, Connecticut.. The replica of the ship that ...
PLYMOUTH - A third Mayflower has landed in Plymouth. Mayflower Autonomous Ship, the unmanned, experimental catamaran, tied up beside Mayflower II at State Pier late Thursday morning, ending a two ...
“Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance From the Mayflower to King Philip’s War,” a thoughtful collection from the renowned Library of America series ...
Informative, accessible, and compelling, They Knew They Were Pilgrims is a welcome invitation to rediscover the Mayflower voyage and the founding of Plymouth Colony at a distance of four centuries.
This being a re-creation of Plymouth Colony in 1627, ... Plymouth is home to the Mayflower Society, whose members are descendants of the 29 adult Mayflower passengers known to have had children.
Travel Walk through a 1667 Plymouth home where Mayflower pilgrims lived About 2 million people in the U.S., including three presidents, can trace their ancestry to the pilgrim family who lived there.
A first-hand account of the first permanent European colony in New England, including the fall harvest meal that inspired America’s Thanksgiving tradition, has been reprinted for a wider ...
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War By Nathaniel Philbrick Viking, 461 pages, $29.95 It was an accident, the landing at Plymouth Rock. Leaving aside the question of which rock was the… ...
Called “Illuminate Thanksgiving,” it’s planned by Plymouth 400, Inc., the nonprofit organization putting together the 400th anniversary celebration of the Mayflower voyage and the founding ...
The head of another of Massasoit’s sons, Metacomet, better known as King Philip, was mounted on a pike outside Plymouth Colony as a warning, and the descendants of Massasoit, the Pilgrims ...
Mayflower II is a replica with role-playing crew members. Plimoth Plantation re-creates the colony, circa 1627, with role players and a re-created Wampanoag village.
Hostility, slavery and pandemic. Tradition dictates the Pilgrims’ story starts in September 1620, with the departure of the Mayflower, packed with colonists and sailors, leaving England to set ...