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Plymouth community remembers the past to forge a better future

Posted on July 14, 2021

By Dave Kindy, Wicked Local PLYMOUTH – Remembrance Day was a washout outside last Friday but it was poignant moment of reflection inside at Pilgrim Hall Museum. Forced to move indoors from Coles Hill because of Tropical Storm Elsa, this solemn ceremony looked back at the courage and sacrifice of Pilgrims and Wampanoags in forging an […]

Archaeologists dig hilltop over Plymouth Rock one last time

Posted on June 10, 2021

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.

A year later, Plymouth 400 ready to remember town’s anniversary

Posted on June 8, 2021

OLD COLONY MEMORIAL – PLYMOUTH – The town’s quadricentennial commemoration is not over; it’s just a year older. Now that COVID-19 restrictions are being lifted, Plymouth 400 Inc. is moving ahead with live events to mark the community’s founding in 1620. Michele Pecoraro, the organization’s executive director, announced in-person programming begins Monday, June 7, with daily […]

Local archaeologists to begin Cole’s Hill site examination

Posted on June 5, 2021

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 […]

Before Plymouth Colony and the Pilgrims, There was Patuxet

Posted on February 22, 2021

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.

A Special Look Back at Plymouth’s 400 Years

Posted on December 19, 2020

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 […]

Indigenous say ‘no thanks, no giving’ 400 years after Mayflower

Posted on November 26, 2020

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 […]

MAYFLOWER ARRIVAL: 400 Years Later, Pilgrims Story is Remembered | NewsNOW from FOX – YouTube

Posted on November 26, 2020

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

What you learned about the ‘first Thanksgiving’ isn’t true. Here’s the real story

Posted on November 22, 2020

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 […]

Retelling the story of the Mayflower’s arrival, 400 years later

Posted on November 21, 2020

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, […]