Via The Provincetown Banner By Lee Roscoe Can you imagine what it was like to live in the wilderness, freely following game and fish from season to season? The Wampanoag people did that for thousands of years before the arrival of the Mayflower. How would you feel, then, if people from across the ocean came and […]
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Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum Presents “A Wampanoag Welcome”
Provided by Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum Provincetown, MA – Clam fritters, smoked salmon, fresh oysters, and other Native American specialties are on the menu for the first ever reception with members of the Wampanoag Tribe at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum (PMPM) on Thursday May 28 from 5 to 7 pm. The celebration […]
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“Our Story” Exhibit To Receive Warm Welcome Reception in Provincetown
Plymouth 400, Inc.’s first educational and cultural exhibit “Our Story: Wampanoag History” is now open to the public at Pilgirm Monument and Provincetown Museum (PMPM) in Provincetown, Massachusetts where it will remain through June 2015. The first installment of the exhibition, which will expand with additional pieces of Wampanoag history leading up to 2020, is called “Captured: 1614” […]
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5 things you may not know about Mayflower II
Mayflower II is a full-scale reproduction of the ship that carried the “Mayflower Pilgrims” from Plymouth, England to the New World in 1620. The ship is currently in the middle of an extensive restoration process to prepare her for the 400th anniversary of that historic voyage. The State of Massachusetts included funds in the 2015 […]
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Mayflower II is on her way home!
Mayflower II departed from Mystic Seaport this morning, where she spent the winter undergoing extensive restoration in preparation of 2020. News 8’s Stephanie Simoni went live on the air this morning with Whit Perry, the captain who will sail Mayflower II back to Plymouth over the course of the next two days. Here’s the video […]
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Reimagining Plymouth’s waterfront
PLYMOUTH — They call it “America’s Hometown,’’ and as it approaches its 400th birthday, it is clearly showing its age. Take the area most familiar to tourists, a million of whom flock to it every year: the waterfront near Plymouth Rock and the Mayflower II. The sidewalks on Water Street along the harbor are riddled with […]
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Plymouth Making Headlines
In case you missed it, Plymouth made the front page of this week’s Globe South section with a feature story on the downtown promenade project, which will revitalize the waterfront area in preparation for 2020. “They call it ‘America’s Hometown,’ and as it approaches its 400th birthday, it is clearly showing its age,” writes Emily Sweeney in her […]
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#ThrowBackThursday: Pirates in Plymouth, Then and Now
Plymouth Colony was not immune to the dangers of pirate attacks, and history books contain references to several pirate crews visiting the area. In 1633, French pirates robbed a Plymouth Colony settlement, according to Clayton E. Cramer’s book Armed America. Then in 1646, Captain Thomas Cromwell and approximately 80 of his crew, whom William Bradford […]
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GREAT WHITES: Listening for sharks off Plymouth
By Frank Mandfmand@wickedlocal.com Posted May. 11, 2015 at 10:00 AM PLYMOUTH – When it comes to protecting swimmers and boaters, Plymouth businessman Josh Bows, the town’s Department of Marine and Environmental Affairs (DMEA), the state’s Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) and the White Shark Conservancy (WSC) have put their money where the shark bites. Jointly, these […]
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200-Year-Old Painting Restored for 2020
Several Plymouth organizations, including Pilgrim Hall Museum, received funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts last year to complete restoration projects in preparation of the 400th anniversary of Plymouth Colony in 2020. Pilgrim Hall received $215,000 to restore the two-hundred-year-old painting “Landing of the Pilgrims” by Henry Sargent and restoration specialists are well on their way […]
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