2023-12-11

The Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Massachusetts in 1620

    The Mayflower

I've always been intrigued by the story of the Pilgrms landing at Plymouth Rock and the first Thanksgiving in America. I read the stories throughout my primary education and in the elementary schools I became somewhat of an early American scholar with my love of the topics concerning the early settlements in Massachusetts, and Jamestown as well as Williamsburg, Virginia.

I had a few opportunities to visit my navy buddy, the late Jerry Landry from Barnstable, Massachusetts during my stint at Knight Ridder working the Atex system way back when.

During those visits he would show me the sights, which included Plymouth Rock, that site of the landing of the Mayflower carrying the new world Pilgrims in 1620.

He had warned me that there was not a lot to see. It was a fairly large rock in a brick display area with a very short retaining wall surrounding it.

It looks like all the pictures I've seen subsequently.

I was taken with the history of it all and did not feel the site was under or over stated. I only wish I could return there with Jerry, but alas this will never happen as I had hoped earlier.
 

Plymouth Rock


See Also:

Forefathers Day 2020
Forefather's Day 2019
Forefathers Day