Plymouth Grist Mill This will be a pretty quick post, but I thought it would be worth assembling in one…
Depiction of the First Thanksgiving The smoke curled upward from an open-air fire as the smell of roasting turkey filled…
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…
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 fur trade saved the Pilgrims’ Plymouth colony from financial ruin. Setting up a new colony wasn’t cheap, and the…
A few weeks ago, on an anniversary trip to Mexico, I dragged1 my wife around the ruins of several ancient…