A Taste of Pilgrim Life in Plymouth, Massachusetts

Pilgrim's first settlement at Plymouth

Mayflower II in Plymouth Harbor is a relica

Plimoth crier calling folks to a meeting house

It certainly seems like traveling in a time warp through American history as we explore various historical sites. Before turning the timeline back to 1620, we found ourselves during the past week amidst the 1900s industrial revolution at the Lowell Cotton Mills, the 1775 Battles at Concord and Lexington in the Revolutionary War, and the 1800s country estate of John and Abigail Adams during his presidency.  Next the time capsule has brought us to 1627 where the Pilgrims on the Mayflower landing at Plymouth Rock established the third colony in the New World.

Plymoth Rock isn't much of a big deal other than its 1620 inscription 

Wampanoaq winter hut covered with cedar bark

Pine log burnt and char scraped out to build a mitsoon (canoe)

Wampanoaq youth on one of eight sleeping cots in the winter hut

Native Wampanoaq dressed in his loin cloth

The Plimoth Plantation site is a reconstruction of both a Wampanoaq native people village and an English Village established by the Pilgrims as their first settlement. Definitely worth adding a visit to Plymouth on your bucket list.

Drying fish from Eel River nearby

Plimoth thatched roof houses are common.

Mayflower crew potential candidate 2020 for the 400th Anniversary voyage