Summer 2012 - Plimoth

Ray and Nell in front of Mayflower II

Okay, I finally noticed that the blog automatically puts the dates, which are usually different from what I put, so I'm going to quit and let Blogspot take care of it.
Soooo, On Saturday we went to Plymouth.  It was originally spelled "Plimoth".  We went through a village representing the Native Americans who lived in this area at the time the Pilgrims were here. We were asked to be respectful and call them Native Americans or Wampanoags.
This is in one of the homes in the village.  This young man was explaining that each dwelling housed 12-15 people - all members of the same family.  But he said the dwellings were used only for sleeping.  They didn't "hang out" inside.This website shows a good example of what we saw.  The indian girl shown on this website was one working in the village actually.  She was cooking a seafood chowder over a fie when we were there.  It was 90+ degrees.  http://www.galenfrysinger.com/plymouth_wampanoags.htm

This shows an example of the types of products the Pilgrims produced with primitive tools.  A really interesting thing about the  Plimoth Plantation (that is the correct spelling of the original place)  is that everyone in the village represented a real person.  We were encouraged to ask questions and interact with the people there, but they would always stay in character.  They were dressed in the traditional wool clothing of the period.  We were in our short sleeves and Capri pants and shorts and sweating big time.  I didn't see anyone sweat even though the temperature was in the 90s and they were dressed in long sleeves and stockings.  It was an interesting day.