Eye Witness Account of 1621 harvest celebration read aloud in 17th-century English dialects.

Eye witness account of 1621 harvest celebration (17th-century English)

Eye witness account of 1621 harvest celebration (Modern English)

Text of the March 1621 alliance made between Plymouth Colony and the Pokanoket Wampanoag sachem Ousemequin (Massasoit) read aloud in 17th-century English dialects.

Plymouth Pokanoket 1621 agreement (17th-century English)

Text of the March 1621 alliance made between Plymouth Colony and the Pokanoket Wampanoag sachem Ousemequin (Massasoit) read aloud in modern, American English dialects.

Plymouth Pokanoket 1621 agreement (Modern English)

As our society reexamines the meaning of gender for a new generation, Malka Benjamin and Kerri Helme discuss what it meant to be a woman in English and Wampanoag societies 400 years. Please be advised that the conversation includes information about female menstruation, sex, pregnancy, miscarriage, sexual assault, and childbirth.

A Woman's World: The Female Experience in 17th-century Plymouth and Patuxet

Interwoven host Hilary Goodnow and Plimoth's Senior Historian, Richard Pickering, delve into New York Times writer and bestselling author David Brooks’ newest book, The Second Mountain: A Quest for a Moral Life to explore how ideas of social contract applied to 17th-century communities and how they influenced the Mayflower Compact.

Compact, Covenant, or Social Contract?

Archaeologist and Museum Gardener, Dr. Fred Dunford, discusses with Interwoven host Hilary Goodnow the transformation of Indigenous and English agricultural practices and the role archaeology plays in helping us better understand farming and gardening from different historic and cultural perspectives. 

This episode was made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations in this podcast do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Planters In Plymouth And Patuxet

Interwoven is a podcast from Plimoth Patuxet Museums, the Nation’s premier living history museum. In each episode, we explore the ways stories weave through generations, communities and cultures to inform our contemporary lives. Rooted deep in the 17th century, Interwoven expands beyond the relationships between the Wampanoag people and the Pilgrims to discuss larger cross-cultural interactions of the varied people who lived along these shores of change. 

To learn more about Plimoth Patuxet Museums visit www.plimoth.org.

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