With our nation sheltering at home, people have had a lot of time to watch videos. I would like to call attention to two video presentations that I have found helpful in learning about the Pilgrims. One is a documentary and the other is a docudrama that portrays the Pilgrims’ voyage across the Atlantic and […]

Alwyn York, CCCC Historian Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower is the most readable book on the Pilgrims that I have found.  Philbrick is a masterful storyteller, with a knack for bringing history to life.  The book is based on serious scholarship and his sources are thoroughly documented, but in a way that does not intrude upon the […]

ALWYN YORK, CONFERENCE HISTORIAN Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford is the essential book to read about the Pilgrims. It tells the story of the beginning and early years of the Plymouth colony in the words of the man who was its governor for most of that time. William Bradford was elected governor of the […]