by S. A. Cranfill | Mar 28, 2020 | 17th-Century British & American History, Braving the New World, Captain John Smith, Captain Thomas Dermer, European and British Colonization of America, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, The Pilgrims, The Year of the Mayflower
“An Extraordinary Plague”
This blog entry is dated March 28, 2020, so it is perhaps a pertinent time, as we Americans endure an unprecedented and rather peculiar quarantine, to explore a curious and historically important plague of four centuries ago.
In 1616, several years prior to the year of the Mayflower, an unseen enemy stalked (more…)
by S. A. Cranfill | Mar 9, 2020 | 17th-Century British & American History, Captain John Smith, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Squanto, The Pilgrims, The Year of the Mayflower
The Fish That Founded America
Photo from Pixabay by Susanna Winqvist
The Atlantic Codfish ~ America’s Founding “Fish Father”
It is March of 2020, the Year of the Mayflower, the 400th anniversary of the good ship’s New England arrival some 8 months future. What were the people we call our Pilgrim Fathers doing in March of 1620? They were dealing with, and arguing over, a new development on the business end of moving to America. (more…)
