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Visiting Old Ironsides......what else to do in Boston?
"John Gaquin" wrote in message . .. "Calif Bill" wrote in message news:ZxnRg.431 They are not even sure it is the correct rock, and it has been moved over the years. It has certainly been moved, broken in two, repaired, relocated, buried in a landfill pier, recovered, chiseled down in size by souvenir hunters and, in time, revered. Nathaniel Philbrick, in his history 'Mayflower', relates what seems to be a well researched account of the rock from about 1741 onward. The crux is, of course, that the consideration that this is "the rock" is based solely on the 1741 testimony of one Thomas Faunce, then aged 95, who claimed the rock was shown to him as the landing point by his father, who had arrived in the colony in 1623. Civic leaders and civic groups took it from there, and the legend of Plymouth Rock was off and running. It may be true, and it may not. The story is only two steps removed from a primary source, but those steps can loom huge. In any event, even if the famed Plymouth Rock is the first footfall at the Plymouth Colony, it certainly was not the place where the Pilgrim travellers first set foot on New World soil. That, as another pointed out, was at Provincetown. News Flash: http://www.oldcity.com/history-information.cfmws |
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