Visit Pilgrims, a voyage that changed so much, and knitting-that’s history, indeed. While the living history exhibits are closed for the season, there’s still much to see and do with special events, the Plimoth Knitters’ Club, and the Museum Shop. This museum, started in 1947 by Henry Hornblower II with two cottages and a fort, has grown to include the Mayflower II, the English Village, the Wampanoag Homesite, visitor and craft centers, barns, and a grist mill. Some fifty years before the Mayflower left port, a band of French. If you are ever near Plimoth Plantation, a visit will be rewarding. The first Pilgrims to reach America seeking religious freedom were English and settled in Massachusetts. Lower Right: Jacqueline Fee’s sketch of the original Brewster stocking. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. He sailed with them to America on the Mayflower in 1620, serving as their military leader when they established Plymouth in New England. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. Top Right: Photograph of a model of the ship the Mayflower at Pilgrim Hall. The resonant story of the Pilgrimsshocking hardship, flinty endurance, alliances and wars and accommodations with native tribeshas always centered around the arrival of the Mayflower at Plymouth and the first Thanksgiving. Left: Jacqueline Fee’s contemporary Brewster socks (top) and her reproduction Brewster Stockings. The relieved Pilgrims christened the spot where the skirmish took place The First Encounter.
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