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BOSTON (AP) — Archaeologists are giving a grassy hilltop overlooking iconic Plymouth Rock one last look before a historical park is built to commemorate the Pilgrims and the Indigenous people who once called it home. Click here to read the story.

WICKED LOCAL – PLYMOUTH — Archaeologists from the UMass Boston’s Fiske Center for Archaeological Research will begin a site examination and data recovery in June on one of the last undeveloped parcels of land on historic Cole’s Hill, a small lot owned by the Pilgrim Society/Pilgrim Hall Museum. The recovery project is the first phase […]

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 […]

A Thanksgiving Day interview with Plymouth 400 Communications Manager Brian Logan on NewsNOW from Fox.

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 […]