PROVINCETOWN — Two things Provincetown’s Cheryl Andrews disliked as a child: history and Thanksgiving. History, she said, was “boring as dust” — with its rote memorization of dates, wars, and […]
Mayflower
OP-ED
Wamsutta Frank James Made Good Trouble
The music teacher who awakened us to real history
One story surfacing this Thanksgiving tells of a search party from the Mayflower, anchored in Provincetown Harbor, raiding a gravesite near Corn Hill in Truro. About 10 bushels of corn […]
MAYFLOWER HISTORY, PART II
For Some, It Wasn’t a Pilgrimage but Pure Hustle
John Howland’s unlikely rise from servant to patriarch
On Nov. 11, 1620, the Mayflower arrived in Provincetown Harbor. Four hundred years later, we — most of us, anyway, on the Outer Cape and all across the nation — […]
Provincetown 400 Book Club Discussion: Nathaniel Philbrick’s “Mayflower”
The Provincetown Public Library and mystery writer Jeannette de Beauvoir are hosting the Provincetown 400 Book Club’s second meeting, discussing Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower, on Thursday, Aug. 6, at 6 p.m. […]
EASTHAM 400
1620 Events to Focus on First Encounter With Nauset
Replica of Pilgrims’ shallop will visit Rock Harbor
EASTHAM — History will be docking at Rock Harbor this summer. Tying up next to the Coast Guard boat that rescued 32 sailors from the Pendleton shipwreck in 1952 will […]
