Today the sunny finally came out! Hurrah!
Enjoyed a wonderful day at Plymouth. Started out with Plymouth Rock -- it is much tinier than I ever expected since nowadays it is but a smaller part of a larger rock that has been parcelled out to all kinds of people and institutions around the U.S.
From there boarded the Mayflower II for a tour. Really cramped quarters for a crew and all those Pilgrims. Pilgrims basically were treated as cargo. Can't image how cramped and smelly it would have been. Some families as large as 8 persons were confined to a "cabin" (actually wood boards) that couldn't have been more than 8 ft by 6 ft. Re-enactors aboard ship answered questions.
Here I am next to the anchor rope - check out how small I look!
You can see more images on my Picasa Mayflower web album!
Next we traveled around town to see old houses, monuments, and other points of interest. I was particularly interested in a visit to Plymouth's Burial Hill which climbs high about the harbor. Here William Bradford and many other Pilgrims are buried. Famous missionary to China Adoniram Judson is also laid to rest there.
You can see more images on my Picasa Plymouth web album!
About lunch time we moved on to Plimouth Plantation. I ate a wonderful turkey dinner in their welcome center while Joyce tried the fish cakes and Boston baked beans. A walking tour of the grounds took several hours. We experienced both an Indian "village" and the Pilgrim settlement with talented re-enacters and craftsman who made it especially meaningful. If you get out here, you can't miss this stop. Wow! Talk about roughing it...
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Had an itchy trigger finger on the camera -- went through three sets of batteries. Will post photos tomorrow. Too tired tonite. We left the hotel at 8:10 am and just got back in the door at 10:30 pm. NOTE: At final count we took over 600 photos yesterday!
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You can see more images on my Picasa Plymouth Plantation web album!
After Plimouth Plantation, we drove down to Falmouth on the south end of Massachusetts for a performance of "The Dragon King" by the Tanglewood Marionettes.
Amazing performance. Beautiful marionettes with a wonderful mixture of rod puppets, some blacklight, some shadow. Afterwards got a backstage tour. Lots more photos. They are heading down to Georgia for the Puppeteers of America convention in a couple weeks.
You can see more images on my Picasa Tanglewood web album!
Also, Joyce found someone with her same taste in shoes - they sat next to each other at the puppet show.
That's all for now!
Blessings!
Dave
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