Posted on 02/17/2020 9:11:45 AM PST by 11th_VA
John Clark(e), a member of the crew on the Mayflower, was an ancestor of mine. So say the clues on ancestrydotcom.
Tell you what, I’d never seen the rock before, it is pretty unimpressive. I guess I was thinking it was some big boulder they could spot from out at sea or something.
No police patrols? Light up a smoke at the wrong place and they’ll be all over it.
Quite possibly so !
It was easily accessible, when I was there, not aware of today’s barriers, etc.
Plymouth used to be a tough “blue collar” town (don’t know if that is still true) so this may be just the locals getting drunk and partying a little too much...
Nothing new. About forty years ago thanksgiving, a group of Indians danced and spit on the rock. The news media gave it plenty of air time.
I don't know 'WHO' did this, but I'm sure the 'Diversity/Equality/Inclusion' teaching (ie; Hate White America - as typified in the VA Tech(?) Multicultural Center video last week) is what gave birth to this action.
Hahaha - there you go !!!
Plymouth has been big on a 1620-2020 (400 years in America), tourist theme for the year. It’s an important industry for the town. You can believe the locals are going to track this down.
Other than that, no one is really sure if that is the actual rock that was the first one that the settlers stepped on.
On one trip to visit my family in Mass. I took my Alabama born wife out to see some of the sites, Plymouth rock included. From that day on she referred to it as "Plymouth Pebble". ;-)
Interesting you should bring this up. In Charlottesville, organizations have volunteered to purchase and set up, and monitor cameras to protect the General Lee statue - the local Gov't is refusing to allow it - I wonder why.
The media will bemoan the removal of the graffiti exponentially more than the actual graffiti itself.
If you read about early Mass. history, the Pilgrims first stopped at Provincetown ,realized after many months on barren Cape Cod they had to get to the mainland, and crossed Mass. Bay and landed in Plymouth. - Tom
It is a rock on a beach. Impossible to say just how the business of the Pilgrims landed on or near it ever started. I learned that story in Elementary School. I grew up not far from the site.
At some point, the rock was split, and later patched together, which I have always thought to be an odd fact.
Of course the Liberty Bell is also cracked. They fixed that long ago and it simply split again, so I read.
Peculiar symbolism exists in American History.
It is.
Red paint representing Injun blood, no doubt.
If they had a bigger defense budget, the Injuns would still own this place!
“Plymouth Pebble”
That is what everyone who has been there calls Plymouth Rock.
Plymouth Plantation is actually kind of interesting. So is Old Sturbridge Village. Each one of those gives you a pretty good look at what life was like in 17th century New England.
What is amazing around here in southern NH are the thousands of miles of stone walls that farmers built in the 1700 & 1800s. I have one along the north side of my property that is around 1100’ long. Some of the boulders must weigh over thousand pounds. They were put there with horses and oxen.
I had a guy clear about an acre of land on the side of my house. What he did in a day with an excavator, would have taken 30 years with oxen.
Some rocks were too big to move. There was one that the guy tried to pick up with his 30M# Cat excavator. It started to tip it forward with the boom extended. The only way he could lift it was to bring it as far as he could to the tracks.
That means that the rock weighed almost the same amount as the machine. They do not call this the granite state for nothing.
They never learned how to play ‘Pilgrims & Indians’ until long after the Mayflower arrived. Same sort of thing going on in Europe these days with Muslims having nobody who can or even will fight them.
To a lesser extent true in the USA, but there are still
Cowboys here.
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