Mayflower Blog

“And although it be not always so plentiful,” wrote Edward Winslow in 1621, “it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God.” For the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, it was a hard-won harvest. They had endured disease, starvation and every kind of privation. Of 102 original settlers, only 53 survived to…

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, World War I drew to a close. Church bells rang across North America and Europe. One historian wrote that soldiers could be heard cheering “from the Vosges to the sea.” Although the peace wasn’t made official until the signing of the Treaty of…