A Wampanoag Cultural Day at Pilgrim Hall Museum. Free Museum Admission 9:30 am to 4:30pm! Special Activities 11am to 4pm The Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers participatory performance Indigenous artisans displaying and selling jewelry, crafts and more The Wampum Belt – designed, handcrafted and created by traditional wampum artists and the Wampanoag community Make a...
As recently profiled in the New York Times, Lee McColgan presents his fascinating journey from working in finance to becoming a preservation contractor specializing in historic homes and buildings, and now the author of the Amazon #1 publication, A House Restored. Part memoir, part history, McColgan’s book is about the painstaking and ultimately rewarding restoration of his...
A spiritual ground zero for the Mayflower Pilgrims, First Church of Christ of Plymouth also offered spiritual sustenance and connection for people of color. A striking example is the 1762 wedding of Hannah Hovey, a black bondswoman living in Plymouth, and Briton Hammon, an enslaved sailor at the center of the first African American slave...
Prize-winning historian Andrew Lipman offers a fresh look at the epic life of Squanto of Patuxet, the real-life historical figure famously associated with Plymouth Colony’s early survival. In a new biography, Lipman draws from a wide range of evidence to reconstruct Squanto’s upbringing, his transatlantic odyssey, career as an interpreter, surprising downfall, and enigmatic death....
