While in Maine this summer we visited the other Pilgrim trading post in the area - Penobscot, or Fort Pentagoet,…
The American Civil War Museum I’ve had the opportunity to go to quite a few history museums, and one of…
When the Pilgrims arrived off of the coast of New England, before they landed, they signed a document called the…
Plymouth Grist Mill This will be a pretty quick post, but I thought it would be worth assembling in one…
Once Bradford arrived in Plymouth, the furthest he is recorded making was to Monhegan, a little island ten miles off…
As I research the life of William Bradford for a new biography, I plan over the next few years to…
Note: I’ve rewritten this post after coming across more evidence on the topic during my further research for my William…
During my recent studies on Bradford and the Pilgrims, I was reading about some archeology conducted in Fort Pentagoet, a…
The meeting of the local covenant church community played a big role in the life of William Bradford and the…
The last post introduced us to the accounts of two attacks by the Nauset Indians on European explorers on Cape…
The Pilgrim’s “First Encounter,” with the Natives, as they themselves called it, is rather famous. I recently came across a…
The wreck of Endurance has been found in the Antarctic, 106 years after the historic ship was crushed in pack…