Unlike many colonies, Plymouth did not begin with an aristocratic sponsor or a titled governor. The Plymouth experiment was unique in that it was composed of and led by people of the “middling class.” Though they left Leyden seeking religious freedom, this independent thinking would lead to the implementation of political and economic freedoms unknown...
“Pilgrim Progress” is a reenactment of the Pilgrims’ Sabbath procession to worship beginning at the Mayflower Society House on Winslow Street, just off of North Street in downtown Plymouth. Costumed participants representing survivors of the winter of 1621, assemble to the beat of a drum, proceed down North Street, along the Waterfront to Burial Hill. The...
Mayflower Society Lecture Program – How did the Rule of Law come to Plymouth Colony? In an 1802 oration at a Forefathers’ Day dinner in Plymouth, John Quincy Adams renamed the Plymouth Combination as the Mayflower Compact and hailed it as “a unanimous and personal assent, by all of the individuals of the community, to the...
“Pilgrim Progress” is a reenactment of the Pilgrims’ Sabbath procession to worship beginning at the Mayflower Society House on Winslow Street, just off of North Street in downtown Plymouth. Costumed participants representing survivors of the winter of 1621, assemble to the beat of a drum, proceed down North Street, along the Waterfront to Burial Hill. The...
“Pilgrim Progress” is a reenactment of the Pilgrims’ Sabbath procession to worship beginning at the Mayflower Society House on Winslow Street, just off of North Street in downtown Plymouth. Costumed participants representing survivors of the winter of 1621, assemble to the beat of a drum, proceed down North Street, along the Waterfront to Burial Hill. The...
“Pilgrim Progress” is a reenactment of the Pilgrims’ Sabbath procession to worship beginning at the Mayflower Society House on Winslow Street, just off of North Street in downtown Plymouth. Costumed participants representing survivors of the winter of 1621, assemble to the beat of a drum, proceed down North Street, along the Waterfront to Burial Hill. The...