Join us for Episode Nine of our Plymouth 400 CONVERSATIONS series on PACTV (Plymouth Area Community Television)! The program will air on May 27th, June 3rd and June 10th at 7:30PM on Comcast channel 13 and Verizon channel 43 in the towns of Plymouth, Duxbury, Kingston, and Pembroke. After the program airs, you can view the episode here.
Our guest for Episode 9 is Plymouth author and historian James W. Baker.
Jim Baker received a BSc. from Boston University and a MLS from University of Rhode Island. He served as Research Librarian and Director of Research at Plimoth Plantation from 1975 to 2001, and Curator at the Alden House Historic Site in Duxbury, 2002 to 2009. Now retired, he has published Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday, University of New Hampshire Press, 2009; A Guide to Historic Plymouth, The History Press, 2008, Alden House History: A Work in Progress , Alden Kindred of America, 2006, and edited Robert Cushman’s Cry of a Stone, GSMD, 2016, plus other titles on Plymouth and the Pilgrims. He lives in the fifth-generation family house with his wife Peggy M. Baker, Director Emerita of Pilgrim Hall Museum.
Join us for Episode Nine of our Plymouth 400 CONVERSATIONS series on PACTV (Plymouth Area Community Television)! The program will air on May 27th & June 3rd at 7:30PM on Comcast channel 13 and Verizon channel 43 in the towns of Plymouth, Duxbury, Kingston, and Pembroke. After the program airs, you can view the episode here.
Our guest for Episode 9 is Plymouth author and historian James W. Baker.
Jim Baker received a BSc. from Boston University and a MLS from University of Rhode Island. He served as Research Librarian and Director of Research at Plimoth Plantation from 1975 to 2001, and Curator at the Alden House Historic Site in Duxbury, 2002 to 2009. Now retired, he has published Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday, University of New Hampshire Press, 2009; A Guide to Historic Plymouth, The History Press, 2008, Alden House History: A Work in Progress , Alden Kindred of America, 2006, and edited Robert Cushman’s Cry of a Stone, GSMD, 2016, plus other titles on Plymouth and the Pilgrims. He lives in the fifth-generation family house with his wife Peggy M. Baker, Director Emerita of Pilgrim Hall Museum.
Join us for Episode Nine of our Plymouth 400 CONVERSATIONS series on PACTV (Plymouth Area Community Television)! The program will air on May 27th & June 3rd at 7:30PM on Comcast channel 13 and Verizon channel 43 in the towns of Plymouth, Duxbury, Kingston, and Pembroke. After the program airs, you can view the episode here.
Our guest for Episode 9 is Plymouth author and historian James W. Baker.
Jim Baker received a BSc. from Boston University and a MLS from University of Rhode Island. He served as Research Librarian and Director of Research at Plimoth Plantation from 1975 to 2001, and Curator at the Alden House Historic Site in Duxbury, 2002 to 2009. Now retired, he has published Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday, University of New Hampshire Press, 2009; A Guide to Historic Plymouth, The History Press, 2008, Alden House History: A Work in Progress , Alden Kindred of America, 2006, and edited Robert Cushman’s Cry of a Stone, GSMD, 2016, plus other titles on Plymouth and the Pilgrims. He lives in the fifth-generation family house with his wife Peggy M. Baker, Director Emerita of Pilgrim Hall Museum.
Join us for the Episode Two of our Plymouth 400 CONVERSATIONS series on PACTV (Plymouth Area Community Television)! Our guest will be Christopher Lloyd. The program will air on February 4th and 11th at 7:30PM on Comcast channel 13 and Verizon channel 43 in the towns of Plymouth, Duxbury, Kingston, and Pembroke. We will also add a streaming link to this page after the program airs.
Click here to watch a recording.
Christopher Lloyd is the Founder & CEO of What on Earth Books, publisher of The Massachusetts Chronicles – The History of Massachusetts from Earliest Times to the Present Day.
The Massachusetts Chronicles represents a new way of looking at more than 400 years of state history. At the heart of the project is a book that has been specially written in partnership with Plymouth 400 and a range of prestigious partners. The book features more than 60 stories, written in the style of a newspaper, that begin before the Pilgrims began to settle on these shores more than 400 years ago. The stories follow the highs and lows of people living in what is now Massachusetts, providing a uniquely rich and highly accessible way to appreciate the diversity of state history. The book also includes a 100-moment timeline divided into six themes: Commerce, Conflict, Culture, Politics, Science, and Sport.
Click to learn more about The Massachusetts Chronicles.
About What on Earth Books:
whatonearthbooks.com/us/product/the-massachusetts-chronicles/
Join us for the Episode Two of our Plymouth 400 CONVERSATIONS series on PACTV (Plymouth Area Community Television)! Our guest will be Christopher Lloyd. The program will air on February 4th, 11th, and 18th at 7:30PM on Comcast channel 13 and Verizon channel 43 in the towns of Plymouth, Duxbury, Kingston, and Pembroke. We will also add a streaming link to this page after the program airs.
Click here to watch a recording.
Christopher Lloyd is the Founder & CEO of What on Earth Books, publisher of The Massachusetts Chronicles – The History of Massachusetts from Earliest Times to the Present Day.
The Massachusetts Chronicles represents a new way of looking at more than 400 years of state history. At the heart of the project is a book that has been specially written in partnership with Plymouth 400 and a range of prestigious partners. The book features more than 60 stories, written in the style of a newspaper, that begin before the Pilgrims began to settle on these shores more than 400 years ago. The stories follow the highs and lows of people living in what is now Massachusetts, providing a uniquely rich and highly accessible way to appreciate the diversity of state history. The book also includes a 100-moment timeline divided into six themes: Commerce, Conflict, Culture, Politics, Science, and Sport.
Click to learn more about The Massachusetts Chronicles.
About What on Earth Books:
whatonearthbooks.com/us/product/the-massachusetts-chronicles/
Join us for the Episode Two of our Plymouth 400 CONVERSATIONS series on PACTV (Plymouth Area Community Television)! Our guest will be Christopher Lloyd. The program will air on February 4th, 11th, and 18th at 7:30PM on Comcast channel 13 and Verizon channel 43 in the towns of Plymouth, Duxbury, Kingston, and Pembroke. We will also add a streaming link to this page after the program airs.
Click here to watch a recording.
Christopher Lloyd is the Founder & CEO of What on Earth Books, publisher of The Massachusetts Chronicles – The History of Massachusetts from Earliest Times to the Present Day.
The Massachusetts Chronicles represents a new way of looking at more than 400 years of state history. At the heart of the project is a book that has been specially written in partnership with Plymouth 400 and a range of prestigious partners. The book features more than 60 stories, written in the style of a newspaper, that begin before the Pilgrims began to settle on these shores more than 400 years ago. The stories follow the highs and lows of people living in what is now Massachusetts, providing a uniquely rich and highly accessible way to appreciate the diversity of state history. The book also includes a 100-moment timeline divided into six themes: Commerce, Conflict, Culture, Politics, Science, and Sport.
Click to learn more about The Massachusetts Chronicles.
About What on Earth Books:
whatonearthbooks.com/us/product/the-massachusetts-chronicles/
THIS EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED. Please check the Pilgrim Hall Museum website for updates.
Pilgrim Hall Museum hosts an evening reception and book launch for a new work of Plymouth history by John G. Turner, professor of religious studies at George Mason University. Turner’s precisely-crafted and far-ranging narrative, They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty, resets Plymouth’s significance in a rapidly evolving colonial world and deftly probes the Pilgrims’ complex relationship to the meanings of liberty. Copies available for purchase and signing. This event is part of the Spring 2020 Lecture Series at Pilgrim Hall Museum, sponsored by Brabo Benefits with additional support from Powder Horn Press.
Light refreshments at 6:30PM; book talk begins at 7:00PM.
Turner presents a rich and complex portrait of early Plymouth, a community often mythologized by the public and overlooked by scholars. Drawing on extensive new research, Turner recasts traditional and counter-narratives of Plymouth’s Pilgrim settlers to present a more complex tale of humanity and honor, brutality and betrayal, extraordinary courage and extreme deprivation, faith, fear, violence, and moral compromise.
They Knew They Were Pilgrims is an American story of freedom and unfreedom, written for Americans of all backgrounds. Mining a wealth of underutilized sources — letters, town records, and other documents — Turner tells familiar history in new ways and with an expanded cast of characters. The Pilgrims emerge as neither heroes nor hypocrites, but instead as real men and women who brought very particular notions of Christian liberty across the Atlantic. Sweeping and authoritative, They Knew They Were Pilgrims provides essential context for debates that remain at the heart of American democracy in our own time.
Award-winning author Nathaniel Philbrick will discuss his 2007 book, Mayflower, and why this voyage was so important to America’s history.
Please check the Falmouth Museums on the Green website for event updates.
