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Sakonnet Sachem Awashonks relates how the English do not like dealing with women chieftains like her. “The colonists challenge my authority,” Awashonks says. “They think they should be dealing with a man.” The English go so far as to demand that the male Wampanoag tribal members usurp the authority of female sachems. And, as far […]

PLYMOUTH – The Indigenous experience in America has long been overshadowed by the European one, as American history classes focus primarily on English Pilgrims arriving on the shores of Plymouth in 1620, and the attending colonization. Efforts to balance that narrative with the history of Wampanoags and other natives who lived and thrived in America […]

Plymouth’s downtown post office was crowded with philatelic fans last Thursday set on getting the new Mayflower stamp on its first day of issue. Many placed the postage on envelopes and had them stamped that day with America’s Hometown cancellation marks. The new stamp honoring Plymouth’s 400th anniversary is on sale at U.S. Postal Service […]

The newspaper article dates from 1613 and describes how Wampanoag runners visited villages throughout the territory to check on preparations for the big new year ceremonies. It goes on to tell how men collected saplings from cedar swamps that spring for new house frames. Is this a very early edition of the Old Colony Memorial? No, it is […]

PLYMOUTH, England (CBS/AP) — With a splash of Plymouth gin, the U.S. ambassador to Britain officially launched a ship called Mayflower Wednesday, 400 years to the day after a wooden vessel with the same name sailed from an English port to Plymouth, Massachusetts and changed the history of two continents. The 1620 journey launched a […]

PLYMOUTH — You could say this postage stamp has been 400 years in the making. On Thursday, the U.S. Postal Service will release a new “forever” stamp bearing the image of the Mayflower for the town’s quadricentennial at post offices across the country. Locally, several groups are planning activities to mark the first day of issue. […]

PLYMOUTH – You could say this postage stamp has been 400 years in the making. On Thursday, the U.S. Postal Service will release a new “forever” stamp bearing the image of the Mayflower for the town’s quadricentennial at post offices across the country. Locally, several groups are planning activities to mark the first day of issue. Plimoth Plantation and Plymouth 400 Inc. […]

Darkness descended quickly on the Mayflower II, so much so that Ellie Donovan fumbled to click on a light at the podium so she could read her speech during a ceremony Sunday marking the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims departing England for the New World. The executive director of Plimoth Plantation didn’t have any difficulty flipping the next […]

Beginning Sunday, the Mayflower II will be illuminated each evening to commemorate Plymouth’s 400th anniversary. A special ceremony will be held at 7:15 p.m. Sept. 6 at State Pier to light up the ship. Ellie Dononvan, executive director of Plimoth Plantation, will flip the switch. Guests are expected to include State Sen. Susan Moran and […]

 While other 400th anniversary events have had to be rescheduled, the new Plymouth stamp will be released by the U.S. Postal Service as scheduled on Sept. 17. Exactly how it will be handled is yet to be determined, though. “There will not be a live event as in other first-day-of-issues in the past,” said George […]