Remembering

[Backbeach Jake]

You'all should visit the Monument Museum in Provincetowm. Lotsa history there. And you get t climb it

[Jimbo]

I love this stuff, mostly because I am fortunate to be able to trace back to Stephen Hopkins, who with second wife Elizabeth Fisher had Oceanus the first child born in the New World (actually, I think he was born on the ship in passage and another kid had the distinction of being born while the ship was anchored in Provincetown. There's a short read in the most recent Yankee Magazine that goes into some depth on the compelling reason for leaving England and what befell them when they arrived in Provincetown. Roughly half the 100 crew and passengers died in the first year after their arrival. The article is called something like, "Why The Pilgrims Stilll Matter."
Actually, First Encounter Beach is where the Indians caught up with Miles Standish and his men after they had taken the Indians' corn at what is now Corn Hill Beach.

[Flaptail]

Read "the Enduring Shore" by Paul Schnieder. The Pilgrims story is well told and factual. (I especially liked the part about the first public execution in the Plymouth Colony, it was an 18 year old kid who got hung for "buggery" seems he did up sheep, pigs, goats horses and cows plus, and I have no Idea how you would do this, a turkey.)

When the hung him they made him watch as they killed all the animals he buggered which they then buried in a pit as they were thought to be unfit for human consumption then they hung him on
the same day.

Saddest part was what the contact with the English, French and Spanish did to the native american indians, thousands died from influenza. It was documented by Miles Standish as he went to Massaoits camp near Bristol RI and he passed villages where the houses still stood but the skeletons were the only ones in them.

The Nausets got it right, they didn't like the Plgrims, trust them or want anything to do with them.

[Skitterpop]

[quote=Flaptail;433238] an 18 year old kid who got hung for "buggery" seems he did up sheep, pigs, goats horses and cows plus, and I have no Idea how you would do this, a turkey.)

So..... you have`nt had Turkey ?

[Jimbo]

Mourt's Relation is addictive. I remember my grandfather reading it to me many Thanksgivings ago. You get a real feel for their experiences and where they were at any given time in their adventure. I can't even concentrate on my work I so glued to this thing, now.