By Virginia Williams, Atlas Obscura Slavery, plague, and territorial conflict likely made the Europeans’ arrival on Wampanoag land possible. Click here to read the entire article.
This special half-hour presentation aired on NBC 10 Boston, Plymouth 400’s Lead Media Sponsor, on December 19, 2020. 2020 marks the 400th anniversary since the Pilgrims set foot in what is now Plymouth. While the story is one of migration and bravery for many, it is also one of the great inequities. As Latoyia Edwards […]
As the United States prepares to celebrate Thanksgiving on Thursday, the community where it first took place continues to grapple with the legacy of the arrival of the Mayflower, the ship that 400 years ago transported the English Pilgrims who celebrated the apocryphal first feast with members of the Wampanoag tribe. But the modern telling […]
The traditional story of Thanksgiving, and by extension the Pilgrims — the one repeated in school history books and given the Peanuts treatment in “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” — doesn’t start in 1620, with the cold and seasick Pilgrims stepping off the Mayflower onto Plymouth Rock. It also doesn’t start a year later, with the Pilgrims […]
Just a month shy of four centuries ago, a ship carrying the hopes of a new future reached the shores of Plymouth, Massachusetts. On board the Mayflower II, Plimoth Patuxet Museum‘s chief historian Richard Pickering showed correspondent Nancy Chen the newly-restored reproduction of the ship, which had in its dark hull 102 passengers seeking religious freedom, […]
In her 40 years as a museum educator and historical Native interpreter, there is one thing that bugs Linda Coombs the most: disbelief by white people that she is real. “[Visitors] would just walk right up to you and go, ‘You’re not an Indian.’ The way we looked might not fit what they had in […]
After an arduous journey across the Atlantic Ocean in 1620, the colonists we call the Pilgrims were faced with a monumental decision: What to do next? Blown off course by massive storms, the weary travelers missed their intended destination of northern Virginia – what is now New York – by a few hundred miles. Landing in the […]
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 audience as Massachusetts marks 400 years since the arrival of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower this year. Massachusetts’ State Library and Plimoth Patuxet Museums (formerly Plimoth Plantation) […]
It’s been 400 years since the Mayflower arrived in Provincetown Harbor, and local and international organizations spent a decade planning months of quadricentennial commemorative events, many of which were upended by the coronavirus pandemic. But while our nation has a reckoning with racial injustice, colonialism and xenophobia amid a worsening pandemic, some say the more […]
