Written in 1920 for the Tercentenary of the Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts by Allen Eastman Cross and adopted as the Official Hymn of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Tune: "Duke Street" Meter: LM Pilgrim Fathers landing. Painting by...

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By David H. Hunt 1909 USS Mayflower Postcard I will not tell you that one of the Pilgrims brought his stamp collection along on board the Mayflower. The damp conditions on board would have wreaked havoc with it, but even more important, he would have had to wait 220 years until the postage sta...

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By Sue Allen Seasoned tourists understand that where there is a person, or persons, of great historical note then there are bound to be places jostling to capitalize on any association with them. No matter how tenuous the evidence of such an association may be, there is money to be made out of tour...

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By Peter Dustin If one arrives in Plymouth, MA via Summer Street following the line of Town Brook that empties into Plymouth Harbor, one does not see the Harbor or Bay beyond until that view opens up only after the first-time traveler has made a quick turn onto Sandwich crossing Town Brook, then an...

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By Stacy B. C. Wood, Jr. "It Pleased The Lord To Visit Them..." The Pilgrims at Plymouth: The First Sermon Ashore, 1621. Painting by J.L.G. Ferris In the first two decades of their residence in New Plymouth, the Pilgrims were visited by a number of natural disasters: Sickness, Fire, Drought...

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