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 […]
Read MoreArchaeologists dig hilltop over Plymouth Rock one last time
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 […]
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A year later, Plymouth 400 ready to remember town’s anniversary
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 […]
Read MoreLocal archaeologists to begin Cole’s Hill site examination
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 […]
Read MoreBefore Plymouth Colony and the Pilgrims, There was Patuxet
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.
Read MoreA Special Look Back at Plymouth’s 400 Years
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 […]
Read MoreIndigenous say ‘no thanks, no giving’ 400 years after Mayflower
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 […]
Read MoreMAYFLOWER ARRIVAL: 400 Years Later, Pilgrims Story is Remembered | NewsNOW from FOX – YouTube
A Thanksgiving Day interview with Plymouth 400 Communications Manager Brian Logan on NewsNOW from Fox.
Read MoreWhat you learned about the ‘first Thanksgiving’ isn’t true. Here’s the real story
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 […]
Read MoreRetelling the story of the Mayflower’s arrival, 400 years later
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 […]
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