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No Children’s Version: What Reading the Bible Prepared Pilgrim Children to Face
Imagine gathering your children to read Scripture in Plymouth Colony. There is no illustrated children's Bible with the frightening parts removed. No simplified version that skips quickly from Noah's animals to David's victory over Goliath and then to the...
You Think Your Kids Have Chores? Growing Up in Plymouth Colony
“Did you finish your chores?” It's a question children have probably heard in one form or another for centuries. But imagine the answer mattered to more than whether your bedroom was clean. Imagine living in a community where food had to be planted,...
What Can the Pilgrims Teach Us About Leadership?
Leadership is easy to admire when the outcome is already known. It is considerably harder when the ship has landed in the wrong place, your legal authority is suddenly uncertain, winter is approaching, members of your company are questioning who has the right to...
Pilgrim vs. Puritan: They Are Not the Same
Pilgrim or Puritan? For generations, Americans have used the words almost interchangeably. Both groups came from England. Both were Protestant. Both established colonies in seventeenth-century New England. Both believed deeply in Scripture, emphasized moral conduct,...
What’s for Dinner in Plymouth? A Week at a Pilgrim Table
Forget Thanksgiving. No three-day feast. No five deer arriving with Wampanoag guests. No special harvest celebration. It's Tuesday. You're hungry. What's for dinner in Plymouth? The answer is much more interesting than turkey and pumpkin pie. William...
The Pilgrim Kitchen: Cooking Without an Oven Dial, Refrigerator or Grocery Store
Set the oven to 350 degrees. Take the chicken from the refrigerator. Simmer for twenty minutes. Three perfectly ordinary cooking instructions—and none of them would have made much sense in an early Plymouth kitchen. There was no thermostat. ...
Starting From Scratch: Where Did the Pilgrims Get Their Stuff?
Need a new frying pan? A hammer? Shoes? Sugar? A pane of glass? Today, the answer is easy. Drive to a store or tap a screen and have it delivered to your door. Try that in Plymouth in 1622. The settlers of early Plymouth lived in a...
Dirt Floors and a Thatched Roof: Building a Home in Plymouth
Imagine arriving in New England in December. It is cold. You have just spent more than two months aboard the Mayflower. There is no town waiting for you. No inn. No lumberyard. No hardware store. And before you can really begin your new life, you need somewhere to...
A Cradle, a Musket and a Cooking Pot: The Things That Came on the Mayflower
If you had to fit the important parts of your life aboard one ship, what would you take? Clothes, certainly. Bedding. Tools. Something to cook in. Perhaps your Bible or another treasured book. And if you were expecting a baby? You...
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