Part 2 of our trip into the past to visit our ancestors..Plimouth Plantation…
Our visit to Plimouth Plantation was interesting and fun, I wish history had been this alive to me when I was in school eons ago :)
According to Wikipedia:
{Plimoth Plantation, founded in 1947, is a living history museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, that shows the original settlement of the Plymouth Colony established in the 17th century by English colonists, some of whom later became known as Pilgrims. They were among the first people who immigrated to America to avoid religious persecution and to seek religious separation from the Church of England.
In the 1627 English Village section of the museum, interpreters have been trained to speak, act and dress appropriately for the period. At Plimoth Plantation they are called historical interpreters, and they interact with their ‘strange visitors’ (i.e. the modern general public) in the first person, answering questions, discussing their lives and viewpoints and participating in tasks such as cooking, planting, black smithing and animal husbandry.}
Let’s begin…
Before we got to the Pilgrim settlement we stopped at the re-creation of a Wampanoag home site where modern day Native People from a variety of nations, dressed in traditional dress demonstrate how their ancestors lived and interacted with the settlers.
Onward now to the village, founded in 1947, where we see how the Pilgrims lived…
and talk with some ‘historical interpreters’…
Governor William Bradford and friend
William Brewster, Ruling Elder of the Plymouth Church
and our ancestor, Myles Standish
We sat down to rest and two ladies walked by and smiled and said we looked so happy and would we like them to take our picture… tah dah…
:) :) :)
This concludes part 2 of our trip… next up… Miles Standish burial ground and the John & Priscilla Alden House…
(pictures are mine and Deb’s)
